Summary


The proposed rule amendment would change the daily bag limit for wild turkey from one to two and allow hunters on private land and public lands not otherwise managed under the Commission’s wildlife management area system to harvest the seasonal bag limit of two in a single day. The daily bag limit would remain one turkey per hunter on wildlife management areas, wildlife and environmental areas and miscellaneous areas to aid in distributing harvest of the turkey resource among different hunters. The proposed rule amendment would also modify the zonal boundary between Zone A and Zone C to move portions of Zone A into Zone C so that the zonal deer hunting seasons in those areas affected by the change would better align with deer breeding chronology. Fall turkey seasons in the affected area would follow the new zonal seasons. Spring turkey seasons and all seasons for wildlife management areas and wildlife and environmental areas that lie in the proposed area of change would be unaffected by the proposed zonal line change.