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bjohnson@theintermountain.com Photos courtesy of Sgt. J.T. Craig of the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources. A bald eagle is shown after being released to the Upper Shavers Fork area of Randolph County Monday. Photos courtesy of Sgt. J.T. Craig of the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources. A bald eagle is shown after being released to the Upper Shavers Fork area of Randolph County Monday. SHAVERS FORK — A bald eagle was released back into the wild in Randolph County Monday...

West Virginia’s trout anglers will get an early Christmas gift this year. Because of a surplus of trout in the state’s hatcheries, Division of Natural Resources officials will conduct special trout stockings in 11 rivers this week. An estimated 15,000 pounds of trout will be stocked. Jim Hedrick, the DNR’s hatchery supervisor, said hatchery production this year was good — almost too good, in fact. “We need to make more hatchery space available,” he said. “When...