Information Center Open Extra Hours to Take Hunting License Applications

By Justin Stakes

Santa Fe, NM -(AmmoLand.com)- Department of Game and Fish employees will be working extended hours and Saturdays this month to help hunters apply for big-game hunting licenses.

Information center hours will be from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Friday and noon to 5 p.m. MDT Saturdays from March 12 through March 22. The information center will close at 4:30 p.m. MDT March 23. Online applications must be completed by 5 p.m. MDT that day.

Rules and information about applying for 2016-2017 hunting licenses is available online at www.wildlife.state.nm.us. Printed editions of Hunting Rules & Information booklets are available at department area offices and license vendors. For more information or help applying for licenses, please call the information center at (888) 248-6866. Please have hunt choices and other information ready before calling.

The application deadline for big game, including elk, deer, pronghorn antelope, Barbary and bighorn sheep, oryx, ibex and javelina is 5 p.m. MDT March 23. Last season’s harvest reports for deer, elk, antelope, and turkey must be submitted by that date and a $8 late fee will apply. Javelina, Barbary sheep, oryx, ibex, and …Read the Rest

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