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Game Commission expands mentored-hunting eligibility to include ag-depredation and snow-goose permits
Summary
The Pennsylvania Game Commission voted to amend its mentored hunting rules to allow mentored participants to obtain agricultural deer control permits and snow-goose conservation permits; public speakers urged further changes including restoring tag-holding for very young mentored hunters.
The Pennsylvania Game Commission on April 12 voted to amend its mentored hunting regulation to allow mentored hunters — both mentored youth and mentored adults — to acquire agricultural deer control (AG tag) permits and snow-goose conservation permits.
The amendment, to section 1.47.804 of the commission’s rules, was offered by staff and approved by roll call after a motion, second and brief discussion. Commissioners voted in favor and the motion passed. The measure brings mentored-hunter privileges closer to the Commission’s traditional hunting-license structure and removes a prior barrier that prevented mentored participants from participating in those two permit programs.
Advocates for youth hunting pressed the board during the meeting’s public-comment…
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