hunting
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Moose permit applications available
MONTPELIER — The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board voted on April 7 to have 60 either-sex moose hunting permits and 40 antlerless moose hunting permits available this year…
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Snow goose hunt on tap next month
Vermont’s spring snow goose hunt will be held from March 11 through April 23. Since 2009, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has annually issued a “Conservation Order”…
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Vermonters kill record number of bears
MONTPELIER — Bear hunters in Vermont had another safe and successful hunting season in 2020 according to Vermont Fish and Wildlife. Preliminary numbers show that hunters took a…
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Waterfowl blinds need to be removed each season
MONTPELIER — Waterfowl hunters who did not remove their hunting blinds from the waters of the state earlier must do so before Feb. 15 on Lake Champlain or…
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Vermont hunters had a big year
MONTPELIER — Final statewide deer harvest numbers will not be available until March, but the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department announced last week the final tally will be…
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Deer final breaks record in 2020
ADDISON COUNTY — Bright spots have been rare in a 2020 afflicted by a pandemic and divisive politics. But there sure were plenty of happy deer hunters in…
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Rifle season buck weights also set new mark
ADDISON COUNTY — Addison County’s deer hunters have set another record. According to the Independent’s calculations, the average weight of bucks weighed in the county during this November’s rifle season…
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Granville store tallies hunters’ success
GRANVILLE — While the Addison Independent has been reporting hunting successes and wild game reports at Vermont Fish and Wildlife reporting stations around Addison County, we have missed…
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Addison County deer hunters shatter rifle season record again this year
ADDISON COUNTY — For the second straight year the region’s deer hunters have broken the post-2005 record for most bucks taken during Vermont’s 16-day November rifle season. And…
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Hunters find success as rifle season opens
ADDISON COUNTY — Many hunters got their wishes answered and skills rewarded in the first few days of Vermont’s rifle deer season, which opened on Nov. 14. No…
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Deer hunters collect incisor teeth for data
VERMONT — The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department is asking hunters for help in a statewide initiative to gather more biological data on the state’s deer population. Hunters who…
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Young, novice hunters bag ’em
ADDISON COUNTY — Young and first-time hunters combined to bring 105 deer to Addison County’s seven wildlife reporting stations after going out during Youth Hunting Weekend on Oct.…
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Hunters urged to follow COVID rules
MONTPELIER — Vermont’s rifle deer season starts Saturday, Nov. 14, and runs through Nov. 29. Vermont hunters are being urged to keep COVID-19 safety measures in mind and…
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State urges hunters to wear orange for safety
MONTPELIER — With the 16- day rifle deer season beginning this Saturday, Vermont Fish and Wildlife is reminding hunters. and anyone who goes into the woods, to wear fluorescent hunter orange.…
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Vt. rifle season begins Nov. 14
MONTPELIER — Hunters are gearing up for the start of Vermont’s traditionally popular 16-day regular deer season, which begins Saturday, Nov. 14, and ends Sunday, Nov. 29. A…
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Letter to the editor: Subsidies lead to less hunting
Why is the Vermont outdoorsman doomed to lose the land to hunt, fish, trap and shoot? Taxpayers contribute tax money that funds agricultural land management programs for farms…