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Take a Friend, Make a Hunter: Apprentice Hunting License Virginians interested in learning how to hunt and Virginia hunters eager to share their sport with friends and family now have a way to make it easier to pair up! Learn more about the new apprentice license »

The Eastern Hellbender Efforts are underway in Virginia to conserve and manage hellbender populations. Learn more about this large, stout-bodied, fully-aquatic salamander — where it lives, what it eats, and what's being done to conserve this interesting species!

Video: Virginia's Endangered Rafinesque's Big-eared Bat Join Department biologist J.D. Kleopfer on a survey of the state endangered Rafinesque's big-eared bat. This video highlights two of only three known nursery roosts of this species in Virginia — one roost is in an old general store, the other in a turn of the century one-room schoolhouse.

Virginia Wildlife Outdoor Catalog Featured: 2009 Virginia Wildlife Calendar!

• View & Comment on Proposed Regulations (Commercial Parasail Operations)

• Draft Quail Action Plan

• VDGIF Basic Law Enforcement Academy Graduates 4th Class

• Virginia's Pinesnake

• 2008: Year of the Frog

• Virginia Conservation Police Officer Careers

• Dutch Gap Black Vulture Management

• Hunting with Hounds in Virginia: A Way Forward

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