Biologists anticipate increased turkey harvest opportunity
Turkey hunters in West Virginia can anticipate increased harvest opportunities during the 2020 spring gobbler season, which is scheduled to open Monday, April 20,...
Fifty elk to be released "softly" into W.Va. in re-populaton effort
Fifty elk will be released "softly" into the mountains of southern West Virginia this summer in an effort to reestablish the animal in its...
Applications available for limited-permit area antlerless deer hunts
SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.VA. — Applications to hunt in 12 limited-permit areas in West Virginia during the 2023 antlerless deer season are now available, according...
DNR: West Virginia hunters harvested 108,160 deer in 2017
Preliminary counts indicate hunters harvested 108,160 white-tailed deer in West Virginia during the 2017 hunting seasons. The 2017 harvest was four percent below the...
West Virginia’s buck, antlerless-deer seasons open Nov. 20
West Virginia’s traditional buck firearms season will start Monday, Nov. 20, 2017, and run through Dec. 2.
Hunters should see plenty of deer this year due to...
Applications available for deer hunts at nine W.Va. state parks
Applications to participate in controlled deer hunts necessary to manage herds at nine West Virginia state parks are being accepted through Sept. 9.
The hunts...
December deer, bear hunting seasons in W.Va. to begin
SUTTON, W.Va. — Beginning this week, hunters will have several opportunities to target deer and bear in December 2022. The next segments of West...
2020 "good year for deer hunting," says DNR biologist
Hunters in West Virginia harvested 38,776 antlered deer during its two-week buck firearms season in 2020, according to preliminary data collected through the electronic...
Governor signs bill to allow Sunday hunting on public lands in...
The West Virginia governor signed Senate Bill 451 Thursday to permit Sunday hunting on public lands following its overwhelming passage during the recent legislative...
W.Va. asks hunters to review new 2023-'24 hunting, trapping laws
SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Officials at the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources are reminding hunters to review several essential changes to hunting seasons...
West Virginia spring turkey harvest declined in 2019
Preliminary data indicates spring turkey hunters harvested 11,210 gobblers in 2019, according to Mike Peters, Game Bird and Small Game Project Leader for the...
First Mountaineer Heritage hunting season set Jan. 10-13
Big-game hunters in West Virginia will have the opportunity to take part in West Virginia’s first "Mountaineer Heritage Season" this week.
Running Thursday-through-Sunday, Jan. 10-13,...
