Hunting & Trapping Digest 2008-2009 - (Page 29) WATERFOWL/MIGRATORY GAME BIRDS Seasons and bag limits for ducks, geese, doves, woodcock and other migratory game birds must conform to frameworks established by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. These seasons will be set in late summer and will be announced through the news media and be available at U.S. Post Offices in early September, after this Digest was published. To hunt waterfowl, persons 16 and older are required to have a federal duck stamp, and it must be signed across the face. In addition, all licensed hunters ages 12 and up must have a Pennsylvania Migratory Game Bird License to hunt ducks, geese, doves, woodcock, brant, coots, gallinules, moorhens, rails and snipe. This license may be obtained from any license issuing agent. Pennsylvania’s non-mandatory duck stamp, pictured here, which helps finance wetland acquisition and development, waterfowl education and waterfowl monitoring/research, is available from Commission offices and participating license issuing agents for $5.50. Dove season is tentatively set to open September 1 each year, unless the first falls on a Sunday. A split-season format has been in place for doves the last several years, with the first season running Sept.1-30, a second opening on the general small game season opener, and the third opening the day after Christmas (unless that day falls on a Sunday) for approximately a week. Hunting hours during the proposed September segment of dove season are noon to sunset. Be sure to check the Pennsylvania 2008-09 Guide to Migratory Game Bird Hunting brochure available at Post Offices when you purchase your Federal Duck Stamp by late August each year. 2008 Pennsylvania duck stamp by Scott Calpino GOOSE BLIND APPLICATION Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area or Pymatuning Wildlife Management Area Permittees to hunt these areas during goose season only are selected by public drawings held prior to the hunting season. Only the application form on this page will be accepted. An individual may apply to only one area per year and may submit only one application from the current Hunting & Trapping Digest. An individual, as a drawn applicant, a guest or a walk-on, may hunt at either the Pymatuning or Middle Creek controlled areas only once per year. Mailed applications for Middle Creek will be accepted through Sept. 9, and selected through a public drawing on Wed., Sept. 10, at 10 a.m. Mailed applications for Pymatuning will be accepted through Sept. 13, and selected through a public drawing at 10 a.m. on Sat. Sept. 20. The application must contain the applicant’s 2008-09 hunting license (Back Tag) number and letter. The PGC Executive Director will designate one shooting day at Middle Creek and Pymatuning as a youth-only day, and will establish, no later than 20 days prior to the drawing, the number of applications to be drawn. Adults who accompany a junior license hunter on this day may participate in the hunt by calling only. Applications received from junior hunters will be separated and drawn prior to the other applications on the established drawing date for the management area. Unsuccessful applicants for the youth shooting day will then be placed with all other applications and the drawing will proceed until all shooting days are filled. A separate drawing is held for blinds that accommodate hunters with disabilities. Applicants must submit a copy of their current Disabled Person Permit (permit to hunt from a vehicle) issued by the PGC. Blinds at Middle Creek and Pymatuning will not be operational during the September season or in the late season. Shooting days at Middle Creek are Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Shooting days at Pymatuning are Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays. Successful applicants will be mailed a hunting reservation entitling them to be accompanied by a maximum of three guests. Apply to: CONTROLLED GOOSE HUNTING AREA APPLICATION (Please Print) Check One: Middle Creek Pymatuning Youth Only Day (Check if you are a Junior License Holder and are Name Address Town interested in being included in this special drawing.) State Zip 2008-09 License (Back Tag) Number and Letter Phone Number ( ) Area Code Signature Date List Two Preferred Dates 1. 2. Check here if you will accept any other date if your selected date is full. DO NOT WRITE BELOW THIS LINE Assignment Date Blind PGC Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area Post Office Box 110 Kleinfeltersville, PA 17039-0110 OR PGC Pymatuning Wildlife Management Area 9552 Hartstown Rd. Hartstown, PA 16131 REPORT BANDED BIRDS Hunters can now report bird bands online at www.reportband.gov or on a toll-free number: 1800-327-BAND. Operators are on duty 7 a.m.- 4:30 p.m., Mon.- Fri. At other times a voice mail system will ask hunters to leave a telephone number. In addition to band numbers, information requested will include when, where and what species of waterfowl were killed. The age and sex of the bird and where it was banded will be provided to the hunter by mail. http://www.reportband.gov
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