PA DOE TAGS REMAINING FOR FREE

After hunters purchase a general hunting license, they may apply for antlerless deer licenses based on staggered timelines, which will be outlined in the 2022-23 Pennsylvania Hunting & Trapping Digest, which is provided for free to all license buyers. Hunting licenses for the upcoming year go on sale in mid-June and become effective July 1. The hotspot for CWD continues to be Bedford County, which had more than half of the CWD cases at 127, and its neighboring county, Fulton, with 57. In the 2020-21 time period, the agency tested 12,769 deer and found 253 CWD positive cases.

In the 2021-22, hunting season, the Game Commission tested 11,000 deer and discovered 240 positive cases for Chronic Wasting Disease, a fatal neurological disease. The agency's allocations are based on previous harvest reports and management information about the future of the herd, habitat and diseases like Chronic Wasting Disease.

The fall and winter harvest also included 145,320 bucks. In the past hunting year, about 25% of the anterless licenses were filled by successful hunters who took 231,490 animals. The remaining allocations by WMU are as follows, with the allocation from the previous license year appearing in parentheses: WMU 3D in the Pike and Monroe county area will have 5,000 additional tags for a total of 41,000, and 4C in the Schuylkill and Carbon county area is getting 2,000 additional licenses for a total 31,000.

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