Game and Fish Seeks Input
This from my good friend Doug Burt – Game and Fish Public Information Officer
What can the Arizona Game and Fish Department do different with their hunt structures to make it better for hunters, while still managing within biological sideboards, and to improve hunter recruitment and retention?
If you have ideas and suggestions for these questions and more, now is the time to share them.
Every two years the department reviews and revises the existing hunt guidelines and recommends changes that address the direction given by the Commission.The hunt guidelines set the framework (biological and social) that the department (wildlife managers) use to develop specific hunt recommendations and set permit levels, season dates and season structures.
The guidance for the 2009 package, which will be the framework for setting the 2010-11 and 2011-12 hunting season structures, is for:
* Standardization,
* Simplification,
* and Increasing Hunter Participation.
The current hunt guidelines to be revised can be reviewed and downloaded at www.azgfd.gov/pdfs/h_f/huntingrecommendations/2009/HuntGuidelines.pdf.
Please submit ideas and comments through May 31 to:
azgamebranch@azgfd.gov
or mail them to:
Hunt Guidelines
Arizona Game and Fish Department
5000 W. Carefree Highway
Phoenix, AZ 85086.
Please help us make Arizona’s hunting experiences the best in the nation.
To learn more about the hunt guideline process, and listing of public meeting dates and locations, visit www.azgfd.gov/huntguidelines.
