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The Arizona Game and Fish Department continually solicits feedback on how to best meet the demands of the hunting public, while finding ways to develop opportunities that help pass along our hunting heritage to future generations. All questions and comments about existing hunt management approaches or hunt guidelines can be emailed to AZHuntGuidelines@azgfd.gov. The department hosted a webcast Aug. 15 to provide an update on existing hunt management approaches, recent projects and to gather public input. The webcast recording and comments received during the presentation are posted at https://www.azgfd.com/Hunting/Guidelines/. While hunting opportunity is important, wildlife is held in the public…

AZ Game and Fish biologists install structures to conserve, protect bats OATMAN, Ariz. — The sun is already baking off what’s left of the warm morning air, when Arizona Game and Fish bat biologist Joel Diamond carefully walks to the edge of a loose mound of gravel, and tosses a rock into the abandoned mineshaft below.  He listens carefully as it bounces off the wall of the decades-old mineshaft, again and again as it quickly disappears into the abyss. He notes that the absence of sound from the final bounce — about 100 feet below — serves as proof that…