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Hunters reported harvesting 2,988 bears during the 2021–2022 bear hunting seasons in Virginia. and that was approximately 14% lower than the harvest the previous year and 16% lower than the …

Every season we hear about them and see the pics; the mountain monster, the cornfield ghost, the river bottom buck, the first buck, the stories are as diverse as the …

Have you ever wondered how a game law is created? It’s a process that actually begins with you, the hunter and/or angler and your concerns about existing regulations or ones …

BUCHANAN, VA —  Virginia held its first-ever managed elk hunt this fall inside the state’s Elk Management Zone, which includes all of Buchanan, Dickenson and Wise Counties located in southwest …

Undoubtedly October and early November are the prettiest time of the year to be on the water and by that I mean the upper James and New Rivers where I …

Each year, the Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources’ Deer Project Leader Matt Knox crunches reams of harvest data and reviews his extensive field reports to produce and release a Deer …