Pennsylvania Game Commission

WMU 4E SELLS OUT OF ANTLERLESS DEER LICENSES

HARRISBURG - As hunters are participating in the first-day of the two-week firearms deer season today, Pennsylvania Game Commission officials announced that Wildlife Management Unit (WMU) 4E has exhausted its allocation of antlerless deer licenses for the 2007-08 seasons.

WMU 4E, which exhausted its allocation of 38,000 antlerless deer licenses today, is comprised of Montour and Northumberland counties and portions of Columbia; Dauphin; Luzerne; Lycoming; Schuylkill; Snyder; and Union counties.

Of the 865,000 antlerless licenses originally allocated, agency employees have distributed to county treasurers 839,382 applications.  The remaining WMUs with antlerless deer licenses remaining as of today (along with the initial allocation for each WMU) are: WMU 2A, 5,216 (60,000); WMU 2B, 20,216 (68,000); and WMU 5D, 186 (20,000).

For more updates on the availability of antlerless deer licenses by WMU, visit the Game Commission's "Doe License Update" in the "Quick Clicks" box in the upper right-hand corner of the agency's homepage (www.pgc.state.pa.us). 

The current statewide firearms deer season runs from today, Nov. 26, through Saturday, Dec. 8, except for Sunday, Dec. 2.

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