North Carolina Public Hearings on Proposed Regulations Start Jan. 5

By Vanessa Torres

North Carolina -(Ammoland.com)- The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission will conduct nine public hearings in January on proposed changes to the state’s wildlife management, game lands and fishing regulations for the 2016-17 seasons.

Among the wildlife management-related proposed changes is one that would allow the sale of raw (untanned) deer hides from an animal that has been legally harvested or was killed by a motor vehicle. Current regulations regarding the reporting and identification of harvested deer would apply, but there are no proposed additional tagging requirements for selling hides. Processed hides require a Trophy Sale permit in order to be sold legally.

Another wildlife management-related proposal would change the definition of a bear cub from any bear weighing less than 50 pounds to one weighing less than 75 pounds. This proposed regulation is necessary to make the commission’s rules consistent with state law adopted in the 2015 legislative session.

In the Piedmont and Coastal areas of the state, a proposed regulation would allow youth to hunt all day in waterfowl impoundments on designated youth waterfowl days. Currently, waterfowl hunting in managed waterfowl impoundments …Read the Rest

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