Super Hunt Drawing Deadline Coming Up

To win a tag for the "hunt of a lifetime," hunters must have their applications in by Thursday, August 10.

The second drawing for the 2006 Super Hunt will be August 15, when one Super Hunt Combo and Super Hunt tags for two elk, two deer, two antelope and one moose hunt will be drawn. Applications for the drawing must be received at Fish and Game headquarters no later than August 10.

The first Super Hunt drawing of 2006 raised $103,000 from 19,272 tickets sold, down 3,000 tickets from last year.

The money from the sale of tickets goes to fund the Access Yes! program, designed to improve hunter and angler access to private land or through private land to public land by compensating willing landowners. The program goal is to provide access to at least 1 million acres of private land.

More than 100 properties now are enrolled in the program, opening 622,000 acres of private land and access to an additional 700,000 acres of public land for hunting and fishing. This nearly doubles the amount of private land from last year.

Super Hunt applications are available at license vendors, Fish and Game offices, by phone at 800-554-8685 or 800-824-3729, by mail or online at: http://fishandgame.idaho.gov/superhunt/. Mail applications to IDFG License Section, P.O. Box 25, Boise, ID 83707.

Hunters and anglers also can support the Access Yes! program by making a donation at any license vendor.