FALL DEER ARCHERY SEASONS WILL START SOON
Bowhunters will be returning to the state's forests and suburban woodlots with high hopes of taking a big buck or bringing home the venison on Sept. 29 for the start of Pennsylvania's six-week archery season, according to Pennsylvania Game Commission officials.
However, if you are a bowhunter with an antlerless deer license for Wildlife Management Units (WMUs) 2B, 5C or 5D, you can take part in the new early antlerless deer archery season in those WMUs. The new season starts this Saturday, Sept. 15, and runs through Friday, Sept. 28. A late fall archery antlerless deer season also will be held in WMUs 2B, 5C and 5D from Nov. 12-24.
The statewide archery deer season runs from Sept. 29 to Nov. 10, and the statewide late archery season will run Dec. 26-Jan. 12.
WMU 3D SELLS OUT OF ANTLERLESS DEER LICENSES
Wildlife Management Unit (WMU) 3D has been added to the list of 14 WMUs that have exhausted their entire allocation of antlerless deer licenses, according to Pennsylvania Game Commission Executive Director Carl G. Roe.
WMU 3D, which exhausted its allocation of 38,000 antlerless deer licenses today, is comprised of all of Monroe and Pike counties, and portions of Carbon, Lackawanna, Lehigh, Luzerne, Northampton and Wayne counties.
Of the 865,000 antlerless licenses originally allocated, agency employees have distributed to county treasurers 768,860 applications. Following is a listing of the remaining WMUs antlerless deer licenses as of today (along with the initial allocation for each WMU): WMU 2A, 13,766 (60,000); WMU 2B, 47,369 (68,000); WMU 3B, 1,417 (43,000); WMU 4E, 6,312 (38,000); WMU 5A, 777 (22,000); WMU 5B, 957 (53,000); WMU 5C, 14,638 (84,000); and WMU 5D, 10,904 (20,000).
For more updates on the availability of antlerless deer licenses by WMU, visit the Game Commission's "Doe License Update" in the "Quick Clicks" box in the upper right-hand corner of the agency's homepage (
www.pgc.state.pa.us).
For more information, please visit the Pennsylvania Game Commission - State Wildlife Management Agency website:
http://www.pgc.state.pa.us/pgc/cwp/view.asp?a=11&Q=172434