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Wildlife Commission adopts rule changes
The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission voted last month to adopt all 44 rule changes for wildlife management, fisheries, game lands and law enforcements presented at public hearings in January, though several rules were modified before adoption.
Rules that were amended prior to adoption were:
- Big game harvest reporting. Big game harvested in remote areas must be registered by noon the day after leaving the remote area. Big game harvested in such areas may be placed in the possession of another person, as long as that person has the hunter’s name and harvest date on their person. If the carcass can’t be transported intact, it must be skinned and dismembered before registration.
- Cervid Excretions. No person may possess or use any substance that contains excretion from a cervid to hunt or scout a kill, but the prohibition does not apply to natural substances collected by an individual from non-farmed cervids legally taken in North Carolina, or to synthetic products.
- Pee Dee River Game Land. Pursuing deer or bear with dogs for training or hunting purposes is prohibited on the game land south of U.S. 74.
- Veterans/Military Waterfowl Days. On designated days, veterans and active military members may hunt on game lands and impoundments not designated as permit-only areas from a half-hour before sunrise until sunset.
View the full text of proposed regulations at http://bit.ly/2VPLnUt.