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Committee advances wildlife-management-area regs; lawmakers raise safety and hog-control concerns
Summary
The Senate committee advanced the Department of Natural Resources annual changes to Wildlife Management Area regulations, including higher bear quotas, turkey-season adjustments, new public dove-field rules and two new WMA additions.
The Senate Fish, Game and Forestry Committee voted to move the Department of Natural Resources annual wildlife management area (WMA) regulations to the Senate floor, advancing changes that include a higher bear quota in Game Zone 4, turkey-season and bag-limit updates to conform with last years statute, new public dove-field rules and additions to the WMA system.
DNR staff summarized roughly 10 annual changes. Billy Dukes, chief of wildlife for DNR, said larger items include increasing the bear quota in Game…
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