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Published: June 24, 2008 11:44 pm
Commissioners busy approving agenda
BY JOE GORDEN
The Tribune-Democrat
HARRISBURG —
Pennsylvania’s game commissioners gave unanimous approval on Tuesday to adding coyotes to the list of animals those younger than 12 can hunt under the mentored youth program.
The move had been requested by both the Pennsylvania Fox and Coyote Hunters Association and the Governor’s Youth Council for Hunting, Fishing and Conservation. But, approval came with a warning.
“I would like to emphasize that this is to be a stationary activity in compliance with the guidelines of the mentored youth program, and is not to be a chase,” said Commissioner David Schreffler of Everett.
The hunters association is made up largely of those who run fox and coyote with dogs, but representatives of the group said they clearly understood that youth participating in mentored hunts would have to sit in one place, accompanied by and adult, and that they could only have one gun.
They suggested youth coyote hunts would be by calling rather than with hounds.
The commissioners gave unanimous approval to a staff recommendation that would allow hunters in special regulations areas to shoot more than one deer at a time, doing away with the requirement that each deer be tagged before another can be taken.
They also approved a clarification that hunters may use deer management assistance program (DMAP) permits to take antlerless deer during the bucks-only segment of the rifle deer season in wildlife management units 2D, 2G, 3C and 4B, where the opening of antlerless season will be delayed for several days after the first day of buck season.
The commissioners had approved the bifurcated season for those WMUs in April with the provision that it be used to study its effects on harvests and deer populations.
The measure passed 7-1, with Commissioner Thomas Boop of Northumberland County casting the dissenting vote. Boop, who had championed the idea of a shorter doe season that started after several days of buck season, said he feared allowing DMAP harvest would skew statistics from those WMUs.
“This introduces another variable into this study,” he said. “I think it is unwise.”
But, in response to a question, Bureau of Wildlife Management chief Cal DuBrock said the problem would be minimal.
“I think we will be able to determine, based on the DMAP harvest figures and the regular harvest figures, how those harvest would be affected,” he said.
The commissioners also unanimously approved expansion of the urban deer control plan to allow groups other than political subdivisions – such as townships – to apply for deer control permits.
The approval paves the way for homeowners or non-profit landowners to request the permits.
The commissioners also gave their OK to a land exchange that adds 11-plus acres to State Game Land 82 near Glencoe in southern Somerset County in trade for a 16-foot-wide easement across the game lands to allow electric, telephone and cable access to land owned by Ann Higdon.
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