NEW TRAPPING AND PREDATOR HUNTING SEASONS UNDERWAY
Many of the state's furbearer trapping and hunting seasons are underway and, based on comments from Pennsylvania Game Commission field officers, hunters and trappers should have a good year. The general trapping season - for coyotes, foxes, raccoons, opossums, skunks and weasels - opened Oct. 26 and runs through Feb. 22. The season for mink and muskrats is Nov. 22 to Jan. 11; beavers, Dec. 26 to March 31.
Raccoon hunting season began Oct. 25 and closes Feb. 21, and the season for skunks, opossums and weasels runs from July 1 to June 30, except for Sundays. Red and gray foxes hunting season opened Oct. 25 and runs through Feb. 21, including Sundays. Coyotes have a year-round season (July 1-June 30) and can be hunted on Sundays, too.
Pennsylvania also has bobcat hunting and trapping seasons in nine Wildlife Management Units (WMUs 2A, 2C, 2E, 2F, 2G, 3A, 3B, 3C, 3D and 4D) for the 1,435 individuals who were selected in the Game Commission's annual bobcat permit drawing. The bobcat hunting season started Oct. 25 and closes to Feb. 21, except for Sundays. The bobcat trapping season opened Oct. 26 and runs through Feb. 22.
Game Commission Executive Director Carl G. Roe pointed out that the Keystone State is lucky to have trappers, houndsmen and predator callers, who all play an important role of the Commonwealth's wildlife management program.
To view the rest of this news release, as well as two other articles on trapping and furbearer hunting seasons, please visit the Pennsylvania Game Commission - State Wildlife Management Agency website:
http://www.pgc.state.pa.us/pgc/cwp/view.asp?a=11&Q=175444