WMUS 2E AND 4B SELL OUT OF ANTLERLESS DEER LICENSES

HARRISBURG - Wildlife Management Units (WMU) 2E and 4B have exhausted their
entire antlerless deer license allocations, announced Pennsylvania Game
Commission Executive Director Carl G. Roe.  As previously announced, antlerless
deer license allocations for WMUs 1B, 2F and 2G have been exhausted.

WMU 2E covers portions of Cambria, Clearfield, Indiana and Jefferson counties.  
WMU 4B includes all of Perry County and portions of Cumberland, Franklin,
Fulton, Huntingdon, Juniata, Mifflin and Snyder counties.

Roe noted that this does not mean that hunters, both residents and
nonresidents, are out of options when looking to hunt for antlerless deer
thanks to Deer Management Assistance Program (DMAP) coupons that remain
available.

"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 on public and private lands in these WMUs," Roe said.  "DMAP was
developed to provide a way for hunters to help landowners achieve the type of
deer harvest they require to better manage their lands.  We encourage hunters
to contact these landowners and take advantage of this unprecedented
opportunity."

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 $10 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 $35.  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.  However, hunters
may use DMAP antlerless deer permits anytime antlerless deer hunting is open,
including the entire two-week firearms deer season (Dec. 1-13), even in WMUs
2D, 2G, 3C and 4B.  The two-week firearms deer season in WMUs 2D, 2G, 3C and 4B
is restricted to antlered deer for the first five days (Dec. 1-5) and then
concurrent for antlered or antlerless deer for the remaining seven days (Dec. 6-
13).

For more information on DMAP, visit the Game Commission's website (www.pgc.
state.pa.us) and click on "DMAP" in the "Quick Clicks" box in the right-hand
column of the homepage, then choose "Qualified landowners participating in
DMAP" and click on the county of interest.

Of the 849,000 antlerless licenses originally allocated, agency employees have
distributed to county treasurers 509,659 applications.  Following is a listing
of the remaining Wildlife Management Units antlerless deer licenses as of today
(along with the initial allocation for each WMU): WMU 1A, 17,134 (42,000); WMU
2A, 37,333 (55,000); WMU 2B, 63,980 (68,000); WMU 2C, 11,151 (49,000); WMU 2D,
14,397 (56,000); WMU 3A, 5,326 (26,000); WMU 3B, 18,478 (43,000); WMU 3C, 1,905
(27,000); WMU 3D, 14,069 (37,000); WMU 4A, 3,845 (29,000); WMU 4C, 4,939
(35,000); WMU 4D, 3,300 (40,000); WMU 4E, 13,234 (30,000); WMU 5A, 8,709
(19,000); WMU 5B, 29,177 (51,000); WMU 5C, 73,453 (92,000); and WMU 5D, 18,911
(22,000).

For more updates on the availability of antlerless deer licenses by WMU, visit
the Game Commission's "Doe License Update" in the center of the agency's
homepage (www.pgc.state.pa.us).

The timetable for applying for remaining antlerless deer licenses is:

Beginning Monday, Sept. 8, 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.

Regular antlerless deer licenses and first-round unsold licenses will be mailed
by county treasurers to successful applicants no later than Monday, Sept. 15.  
Second-round unsold licenses will be mailed no later than Oct. 1.

Also, beginning Monday, Sept. 8, applicants may apply over-the-counter at
county treasurers' offices in WMUs 2B, 5C and 5D.  Beginning Monday, Nov. 3,
hunters may apply over-the-counter for unsold antlerless licenses in all other
WMUs.

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