HARRISBURG – Wildlife Management Unit 2E has exhausted its antlerless deer license allocation as of Tuesday, announced Pennsylvania Game Commission Executive Director Carl G. Roe. WMU 2E covers portions of Clearfield, Cambria, Indiana and Jefferson counties in Western Pennsylvania.
Of the 859,000 antlerless licenses originally allocated, agency employees have distributed to county treasurers 596,774 applications. Following is a listing of the antlerless deer licenses remaining by Wildlife Management Unit as of Tuesday (along with the initial allocation for each WMU): WMU 1A, 8,959 (42,000); WMU 1B, CLOSED (30,000); WMU 2A, 30,535 (55,000); WMU 2B, 61,295 (68,000); WMU 2C, 6,074 (49,000); WMU 2D, 3,711 (56,000); WMU 2E, CLOSED (21,000); WMU 2F, CLOSED (28,000); WMU 2G, CLOSED (19,000); WMU 3A, 2,800 (29,000); WMU 3B, 9,759 (43,000); WMU 3C, CLOSED (27,000); WMU 3D, 6,691 (38,000); WMU 4A, 1,227 (29,000); WMU 4B, 2,337 (31,000); WMU 4C, 2,242 (39,000); WMU 4D, CLOSED (40,000); WMU 4E, 14,620 (38,000); WMU 5A, 14,037 (25,000); WMU 5B, 24,881 (53,000); WMU 5C, 54,359 (79,000); and WMU 5D, 18,699 (20,000).
For updated information, please visit the Game Commission’s “Doe License Update” in the “Quick Clicks” box in the upper right-hand corner of the agency’s homepage.
Hunters, both residents and nonresidents, also may apply for antlerless deer permits to use on specific properties enrolled in the Game Commission’s Deer Management Assistance Program, which was developed to provide a way for hunters to help landowners achieve the type of deer harvest they require to better manage their lands. While DMAP permits may be used only on the specific property for which they are issued, they do offer hunters additional antlerless deer hunting opportunities.
Landowners can’t charge or accept any contribution from a hunter for a DMAP coupon. While hunters may obtain up to two DMAP permits per property, DMAP permits do not impact a hunter’s eligibility to apply for and receive antlerless deer licenses issued for WMUs.
DMAP permit allotments are not part of the annual general antlerless deer license allocations for WMUs.
Resident hunters must mail DMAP coupons in a regular envelope, along with a check for $6 made payable to the Pennsylvania Game Commission, to the address listed on the coupon to receive their DMAP antlerless deer permit. Nonresidents must include a check for $26. The permit can be used to harvest one antlerless deer on the specific DMAP property. Maps for the properties are to be provided to hunters by the landowners.
Hunters may not use DMAP permits to harvest an antlered deer.
Beginning Sept. 11, the Game Commission will accept, only through first-class mail, applications for the second round of unsold antlerless licenses. Hunters who applied for an unsold antlerless license during the first round may apply for and receive only one antlerless deer license during the second round. Those hunters who did not apply for an unsold license during the first round may make separate applications for and receive up to two unsold antlerless licenses during the second round. The separate applications may be submitted to one or two WMUs.
As a result of a printer error at Liberty Press, some copies of the 2006-07 Pennsylvania Hunting & Trapping Digest contain an unsold antlerless deer license application and instructions (which appear on page 54) that had words cut from the page’s right margin during production.
“This error shouldn’t create a problem for those who use the application, and it is still valid,” said J. Carl Graybill Jr., Game Commission Bureau of Information and Education director. “Complete instructions for filling out the application also appear on pages 52 and 53 of the digest. And, as in the past, the Game Commission has posted on its Web site an unsold antlerless deer license application that enables the user to enter his or her information into the application before printing it.”
The printer error left some applications without lines for applicants to fill in their ZIP Code and the date of signature. Also, wording for instruction point No. 4 is cut off. The complete wording is: “All Unsold Antlerless License applications must be submitted through the U.S. Mail (First Class Only) until Nov. 6. Express and Priority mail will not be accepted. No more than three individual applications per official envelope. Number of applications must be circled on front of envelope to avoid delay and possible rejection.”
The online application can be found on the agency’s Web site
in the “Forms & Programs” section in the left-hand column on the homepage, and then under the “Forms” heading.
Regular antlerless licenses and first-round unsold licenses will be mailed by county treasurers to successful applicants no later than Monday, Sept. 18. Second-round unsold licenses will be mailed no later than Sunday, Oct. 1.
Also, beginning Sept. 18, applicants may apply over-the-counter at county treasurers’ offices in WMUs 2B, 5C and 5D.
Beginning Nov. 6, hunters may apply over-the-counter for unsold antlerless licenses in all WMUs.