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For immediate release: February 23, 2015 Contact: Amanda Nalley, 850-410-4943 Snook to reopen in Gulf state waters The recreational harvest season for one of Florida’s premier fish, snook, reopens on March 1 in Florida’s Gulf of Mexico state and adjacent federal waters, including Everglades National Park and Monroe County. The season will remain open through […]

For immediate release: February 16, 2015 Contact: Karen Parker, 386-758-0525   March hunter safety (Internet-completion) courses offered The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) is offering free hunter safety Internet-completion courses in six counties in March. (List follows.) Students who have taken the online course and wish to complete the classroom portion must bring […]

The FWC, in cooperation with the St. Johns Water Management District, is opening a three nighttime wild hog-dog hunting season next weekend on the 4,700-acre Lochloosa Public Small Game Hunting Area in Alachua County. You need only a Wildlife Management Area permit to participate (quota permits are not required). See http://myfwc.com/media/2985974/LochloosaPSGHA.pdf for rules and regulations […]

The 2015 National Archery in the Schools Program state tournament for Florida will be held in Newberry on Feb. 28. The tournament will be conducted in two formats: a live tournament competition that will take place at the Easton-Newberry Sports Complex, 24880 NW 16th Ave., and a virtual tournament for schools whose students cannot travel. […]

In a move clearly intended by the Obama Administration to suppress the acquisition, ownership and use of AR-15s and other .223 caliber general purpose rifles, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives unexpectedly announced today that it intends to ban commonplace M855 ball ammunition as “armor piercing ammunition.” The decision continues Obama’s use of […]