| The state of Wyoming is a place teeming with game | | | | demand for license exceeds the supply. The wild life |
| and fish. The Wyoming Game and Fish Department | | | | of Wyoming includes moose, elk, pronghorn, bighorn |
| provides a necessary but flexible system of control, | | | | sheep, mule deer, gray wolf, grizzly bear, and |
| propagation, management, protection, and regulation | | | | mountain lion. Smaller animals like the fox, mink, |
| of all wildlife in Wyoming. Wyoming has an | | | | coyote, bobcat, jackrabbit, cottontail, otter, beaver, |
| international reputation for trout fishing and big game | | | | and raccoon are also found here. Bird life includes the |
| hunting opportunities. This makes it the ultimate | | | | trumpeter swan, white pelican, great blue heron, and |
| sportsman's paradise. | | | | California gull. Carnivorous birds like the bald eagle, |
| Wyoming has twenty-two species of game fish, | | | | golden eagle, osprey, and several kinds of hawks and |
| including six kinds of trout. They are rainbow, brook, | | | | owls are also found here. Game birds like the sage |
| cutthroat, brown, golden and Mackinaw. Bass, | | | | grouse, wild turkey, ring-necked pheasant, Canada |
| walleye, crappie, perch, sauger, ling, channel catfish | | | | goose, and numerous species of ducks are found in |
| and bluegill are found in the warm water lakes. The | | | | large numbers in Wyoming. |
| water bodies of Wyoming provide excellent fishing | | | | Wyoming's Game and Fish Department has been |
| conditions. Flaming Gorge is well known for its | | | | successful in wildlife conservation. Even then, quite a |
| excellent fishing and is called the ""fishing hot spot"" | | | | few species are threatened by extinction. The |
| of America. It offers quality trout fishing all year | | | | pronghorn was threatened with extinction in the early |
| round. People interested in fishing are required to get | | | | 1900s. But the population has now increased to a |
| a fishing license from either Wyoming or Utah. | | | | decent number. The mountain lion is still common. |
| Hunting in Wyoming is the experience of a lifetime. | | | | However, other great predators like the grizzly bear |
| Licenses for big game hunting is issued by a lottery | | | | and the gray wolf are classified as endangered |
| system. A tourist must apply well in advance of the | | | | species. |
| hunting season, as licenses are limited. Often the | | | | |