DEC proposes new opportunities for bear hunting

[burmjohn]

DEC has proposed regulations that will open new areas east of the  Hudson River to black bear hunting and establish uniform bear hunting  season dates across the Southern Zone beginning in fall 2011.    Increasing opportunity for bear hunting in the Southern Zone will help  alleviate agricultural and homeowner conflicts with bears, provide  recreational opportunity, and facilitate wise use of bear meat and  hides.    The specific changes proposed for the Southern bear range would: 

• Open WMUs 3F, 3G, 3N, 3R, 3S, 4C, 4K, 4L, 4T, 4U, 4Y, 4Z, 5S and 5T  to black bear hunting for the archery, regular and muzzleloading  seasons. This would include all of Westchester, Putnam, Dutchess,  Columbia, Rensselaer, and Washington counties, and the portion of  Rockland that was not already open for black bear hunting.  Season dates  for these units will be the same as those in place for adjacent units  already open to bear hunting in the Southern bear range.   
  
• Establish an earlier start to the existing regular black bear  season in wildlife management units in parts of central and western New  York by removing the 7-day lag that has previously existed between the  start of the regular deer season and the regular bear season in this  portion of New York.  This will provide a uniform bear hunting season  framework for all bear hunting in the Southern Zone.
  

  A detailed description of the proposal and instructions for providing comments are available at www.dec.ny.gov/regulations/propregulations.html      DEC will be accepting public comments on the proposal through July  5, 2011.  The proposed rulemaking can also be viewed in detail in the May 18, 2011 publication of the New York State Register at www.dos.state.ny.us/info/register/2011.html

[First-light]

That is cool, I like the earlier start to the season.

[Culvercreek hunt club]

 

Text of proposed rule and any required statements and analyses may beobtained from:  Bryan Swift, New York State Department of Environmental

Conservation, 625 Broadway, Albany, NY 12233-4754, (518) 402-8883, email: [email protected]

 

Data, views or arguments may be submitted to:Same as above.

  Public comment will be received until:45 days after publication of this notice.

[Culvercreek hunt club]

Full context of proposal

http://www.dos.state.ny.us/info/register/2011/may18/pdfs/rules.pdf

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