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Photos available on FWC’s Flickr site: http://flic.kr/s/aHsjRvCQ3X. Video available on FWC’s YouTube site: http://youtu.be/RraIPWUfE6w.   Suggested Tweet: NEWS: Panther kitten rescued; He almost certainly would have died without intervention: http://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/FLFFWCC/bulletins/a6d390 #FWC #Florida   Biologists rescue panther kitten in Collier County A team of panther biologists rescued an approximately week-old Florida panther kitten at the Florida […]

DATE:   February 18, 2014 TO:       USF & NRA Member and Friends FROM:  Marion P. Hammer                 USF Executive Director                 NRA Past President House Bill 89 by Representative Neil Combee is on the agenda for the House Judiciary Committee meeting on Thursday, February 20, 2014. We need you to contact members of this Committee IMMEDIATELY. […]

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) proposed 2014 Gulf recreational red snapper season dates in state waters. This proposed season will be brought back before the Commission for final approval at its April 15-17 meeting in Tallahassee. The 2014 proposed season, if approved in April, would be 52 days long, starting the Saturday […]

A 16-pound black grouper will likely earn Brielle Bennett a new IGFA female Junior record. Bennett caught the 16-pound fish off Key West on Nov. 24, 2013 while on vacation with her family. The New Jersey native was fishing with a live grunt when the grouper took her bait and headed for the depths. She […]

For immediate release: February 12, 2014 Contact: Karen Parker, 386-758-0525 Annual student archery tournament set for Newberry The 2014 Florida National Archery in the Schools Program (NASP) State Tournament will be held in Newberry Feb. 22. The tournament will be conducted in two formats: a live tournament competition that will take place at the Easton-Newberry […]