Outdoor News Daily

The Arizona State Chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation (NWTF) is hosting a raffle for a chance at a 2008 Arizona Game and Fish Commission’s special turkey hunt permit-tag. The winner can hunt either the Merriam’s or the Gould’s turkey from Aug. 15, 2008 – Aug. 14, 2009 as regulated by commission order 29.

Representatives from NWTF will be on-hand selling raffle tickets this Saturday, July 19, from 10 a.m. to noon at Bass Pro Shops in Mesa, Cabela’s in Glendale, Sportsman’s Warehouse in Phoenix and the Sportsman’s Warehouse in Mesa. Tickets are $5 and may be purchased with cash only.

Monies raised are returned to the Arizona Game and Fish Department to be used for the direct management and benefit for wild turkeys in Arizona.
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Department of Natural Resources wildlife officials would like to remind hunters that the deadline for applying for a 2008 fall turkey permit is Friday, Aug. 1.

A total of 59,050 licenses are available through a lottery for the units open to hunting — 12,350 are general licenses that may be used on public or private land and 46,700 are licenses for private land only. Twelve wild turkey management units totaling 34,976 square miles are open to fall turkey hunting during the Oct. 6 to Nov. 14 season, The units include most of southern Michigan, five counties in the northern Lower Peninsula and the entire wild turkey management area in the Upper Peninsula.

Regulations are unchanged from 2007.
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CHEYENNE - Beginning July 1, the Game and Fish is accepting applications for early season sandhill crane permits and limited quota fall turkey licenses.

Applications must be received at the Game and Fish Cheyenne office by July 31 for the sandhill crane permits and Aug. 15 for the fall turkey licenses. Applications can be made online http://gf.state.wy.us or through conventional mail. Unlike other applications, residents and nonresidents can apply for sandhill crane permits together as a party. The maximum party size is two. Sandhill crane permits are free, but waterfowl and migratory bird licensing regulations apply.
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WILLARD, Mo.- Norm Nothnagel will never have to buy a Missouri small-game or migratory bird hunting permit again. He will never have to buy a fishing permit. He is the second person to receive a Resident Lifetime Conservation Partner Permit for taking part in a study of turkey mating behavior.

The Missouri Department of Conservation and the National Wild Turkey Federation (NWTF) sponsor the program. Participating “gobbleteers” go out before sunrise at least twice a week from mid-March through mid-May and record information about turkey gobbling activity. Each gobbleteer chooses the spot where he or she makes observations. In Nothnagel’s case, it is his home property north of Willard.
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MADISON – There will be 95,700 wild turkey permits available to hunters for the fall 2008 turkey hunting season, an increase of nearly a thousand over the 2007 fall season. Permit levels were finalized by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Turkey Advisory Committee after consideration of hunter interference rates, previous fall permit levels, another record spring harvest, and predicted spring turkey production.

The application deadline for the fall season is Aug. 1. The season runs Sept. 13 through Nov. 20 with a bag limit of one turkey of any age or sex per hunting approval notice. Hunters must bring their tagged turkey to a designated registration station no later than 5 p.m. the day after it is harvested.

Turkey hunters harvested 12,010 turkeys in the 2007 fall season, for which 94.800 permits were available. There were no hunting accidents reported during the 2007 fall season.
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