By Ron Dean (Shared w/permission from Ron Dean, PhD)
Dr. Ron Dean, who spent 33 years managing Wyoming’s state operated elk feedgrounds, writes, “It is hard for me to comprehend how an organization that has the motto of ‘Conserving Wildlife-Serving People’ can stand idly by and do nothing while one of the premier deer herds in the country is decimated by starvation.”
The Wyoming Outfitters & Guides Association received a 2023 commissioner license from Commissioner Rusty Bell. WYOGA is auctioning the license and bids will be accepted starting April 13th. Minimum bid is $25,000. The bidding will close April 27, 2023 at 5:00…
The great sport of hunting and wildlife conservation has been on the decline in the United States since the 1960’s, especially in America’s youth. Fewer and fewer young hunters are venturing out into the woods due to major demographic shifts,…
Representative Albert Sommers’s elk feedgrounds bill, House Bill 101, got a 8-1 thumbs up from the House Travel, Recreation, Wildlife and Cultural Resources Committee during its Tuesday afternoon online meeting. The bill would authorize permanent closure of a Wyoming Game…
The positive chronic wasting disease test of a legally harvested elk taken from Grand Teton National Park certainly concerns the outfitting community. We support the Wyoming Game and Fish aggressively testing for CWD across all Wyoming hunt units. It’s important…
The Wyoming Game and Fish Department gives instructions on how to share blood samples and information about your harvest when hunting elk in brucellosis monitoring hunt areas.The Game and Fish has established the brucellosis raffle to encourage hunters to continue…
1st Annual James Robert "Radio" Kennedy Memorial Celebration
The Wyoming Outfitters and Guides Association (WYOGA), Jackson Hole Outfitters and Guides Association (JHOGA), Sublette County Outfitters and Guides Association (SCOGA) and Safari Club International (SCI) jointly intervened in a case in which anti-hunting groups are challenging the U.S. Forest…
WYOGA, JHOGA, and SCI intervene to defend phase-out of supplemental winter feeding for elk