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The Board of Game Commissioners convened for a meeting to discuss official business as indicated by the agenda.
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The meeting covers rule-making amendments regarding seasons and bag limits, Chronic Wasting Disease restrictions, and a new certified hunter permit program to assist landowners with deer management. The agenda also includes discussions on beaver and otter trapping regulations, the use of artificial cubbies for weasel trapping, and updates to random drawing elk license applications. Additional items involve hunting hours, Sunday hunting prohibitions on regulated grounds, fluorescent orange clothing requirements, and adjustments to agriculture deer control harvest permits. The Bureau of Wildlife Habitat Management presents land acquisitions, land exchanges in various counties, an amendment to a bituminous coal surface mining agreement, and a water use agreement with a municipal water authority.
The proceedings involved several key discussions and proposed regulatory amendments. The initial proposal concerned amending seasons and bag limits for the 2026-2027 license year, including opening Sundays for most seasons and shifting the white-tailed deer firearms season to the Saturday preceding Thanksgiving. Further discussions centered on adjustments for wild turkey and black bear seasons to maintain sustainable harvest levels. The Commission also addressed proposals to modify furbearer regulations, including opening WMU 5A to bobcat hunting/trapping and WMUs 2G, 3A, and 4C to river otter trapping. Significant debate occurred regarding the firearms deer season opener date, leading to a vote that failed to pass the initial proposal. Subsequent amendments were introduced and passed, including one to revert the firearms deer opener to the Saturday post-Thanksgiving and another to keep small game seasons open during the firearms deer season. Other amendments that passed related to simplifying Chronic Wasting Disease regulations concerning high-risk parts movement, establishing a partnership program between landowners and hunters, adjusting body gripping trap size limits for beaver and river otter, authorizing the use of snap traps for weasels, simplifying bonus point consolidation for license applications, streamlining antlerless deer license sales, updating migratory bird hunting hours, removing the Sunday hunting prohibition on commercial regulated hunting grounds, adjusting vehicle/fluorescent orange requirements on State game lands during Sunday activities, allowing broader device use for agricultural deer control harvest permits, and enhancing regulations for baiting white-tailed deer in special regulation counties. Finally, a proposal to allow mentored youth under seven to acquire big game tags faced considerable discussion regarding hunter maturity and tag necessity.
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