By Staff Reports on 22 January 2010
Human contact with Chronic Wasting Disease is not recommended…
Posted in Environment, Sports | Tagged Chronic Wasting Disease, Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries
By Staff Reports on 2 March 2009
The Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries (VDGIF) announced that Cale L. Godfrey was named assistant director of the VDGIF Wildlife Division. Mr. Godfrey filled the vacancy created when Bob Ellis was named Wildlife Division Director.
Posted in Environment, News | Tagged Bob Ellis, Pennsylvania State University, Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, Wildlife management
By Staff Reports on 28 February 2009
The bald eagles at the Norfolk Botanical Garden laid their first egg of the 2009 season on February 10th at 4:10 p.m.
Posted in Environment, News | Tagged Bald Eagle, Endangered species, Norfolk Botanical Garden, Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries
By Staff Reports on 28 February 2009
The Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries (VDGIF) and Virginia Marine Resources Commission (VMRC) are launching a monofilament fishing line recycling program across the Commonwealth.
Posted in Environment, News, Regional, Sports | Tagged Fishing, Fishing line, Recreation, Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries
By Staff Reports on 28 February 2009
Wildlife biologists with the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries (VDGIF) have compiled preliminary figures for bear, deer, and turkey harvests for the 2008-09 fall seasons.
Posted in Environment, News, Regional | Tagged Black Bear, Blue Ridge Mountains, Fall Wild Turkey, Hunting, Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, White-tailed deer
By Staff Reports on 18 December 2008
In 2008, three volunteer Hunter Education instructors received the Director’s Volunteer Award for contributing more than 5,000 hours each to the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries. Those individuals are Lewis A. Austin, of Norfolk; Jack L. Broughman, of Waynesboro; and John W. Dodson, of Culpeper. The men were honored for their work at events in Richmond and Appomattox during August and September.
Posted in News, Regional | Tagged Boy Scouts of America, Hunting, Recreation, Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries
By Jennifer McManamay on 9 October 2008
Sweet Briar College and the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries will host an educational workshop on whitetail deer from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 28. The workshop will be held in Heuer Auditorium in SBC’s Guion Science Center.
Presenters will be VDGIF wildlife biologists Matt Knox and Dan Lovelace, who are specialists on [...]
Posted in School News | Tagged Sweet Briar College, Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, White-tailed deer
By Linda Goin on 30 April 2008
The Virginia Outdoor Writer’s Association spring Journalism in the Outdoors Event will be held May 7-9 at the Holiday Lake 4-H Educational Center near Appomattox. This event provides a great opportunity for journalists, free-lance writers and editors to meet and network with new contacts and experienced professionals in a variety of communications media.
Posted in News | Tagged Colleges and Universities, Education, United States, University of Virginia, Virginia, Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Virginia Tech
