The state Department of Transportation and the Game Commission, which sometimes hires contractors to collect and dispose of deer, share the responsibility of removing the deer carcasses. In another matter involving deer, the Game Commission’s board gave preliminary approval to a measure that allows the public to call a nuisance wildlife control operator to remove a dead deer that’s been lying along a roadway longer than they desire. Succesful hunters talk about their elk Pennsylvania elk check station busy with successful hunters Road-killed deer policy Individuals can be drawn for a maximum of one elk license per license year. Each application costs $11.97, meaning a hunter can enter all three drawings for $35.91. Of the 187 licenses awarded for the past year, hunters bagged 144 elk, including 53 bulls, 91 cows in north central Pennsylvania.Įlk licenses are awarded by a lottery system, and hunters must apply separately for all seasons they wish to be eligible to hunt. We try to put no more than 3 bulls per season per zone to limit over crowding as much as possible," Jeremy Banfield, the agency's elk biologist, said Monday morning through an email. "The shift in bulls is just to spread them as evenly as possible into each season. The late season total allocation is down by one elk to 48, but the number of bull tags for late season changed from 10 to 15. The number of archery tags is the same for 2022, but the general rifle elk season that starts at the end of October, is down to 101 from 109 in 2021. And there are 15 antlered and 33 antlerless licenses available for the Dec. 10-24, 14 antlered and 15 antlerless licenses are available. In the archery season open only in select Elk Hunt Zones, to run from Sept. 5, 31 antlered and 70 antlerless tags have been allocated. For the one-week general season to run Oct. That number is down nine from the 2021-22 numbers. Trophies found in Penns Woods Hunters find monster-size antlers during rifle deer season Elk hunting updateįor those seeking larger animals, the board approved 178 elk licenses (60 antlered, 118 antlerless) across three 2022-23 seasons. After hunters purchase a general hunting license, they may apply for antlerless deer licenses based on staggered timelines, which will be outlined in the 2022-23 Pennsylvania Hunting & Trapping Digest, which is provided for free to all license buyers. Hunting licenses for the upcoming year go on sale in mid-June and become effective July 1. The hotspot for CWD continues to be Bedford County, which had more than half of the CWD cases at 127, and its neighboring county, Fulton, with 57. In the 2020-21 time period, the agency tested 12,769 deer and found 253 CWD positive cases. In the 2021-22, hunting season, the Game Commission tested 11,000 deer and discovered 240 positive cases for Chronic Wasting Disease, a fatal neurological disease. The agency's allocations are based on previous harvest reports and management information about the future of the herd, habitat and diseases like Chronic Wasting Disease. The fall and winter harvest also included 145,320 bucks. In the past hunting year, about 25% of the anterless licenses were filled by successful hunters who took 231,490 animals. The remaining allocations by WMU are as follows, with the allocation from the previous license year appearing in parentheses: WMU 3D in the Pike and Monroe county area will have 5,000 additional tags for a total of 41,000, and 4C in the Schuylkill and Carbon county area is getting 2,000 additional licenses for a total 31,000.
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