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Com. Adopts Longer
Gobbler Season
The Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries adopted an April 19 - May 10 spring gobbler season at their meeting in Richmond, March 7, giving hunters an extra Saturday, reports Executive Director Chester F. Phelps. Hunting will be prohibited in Buchanan, Dickenson, Lee, Russell, Scott and Wise Counties and on the Clinch Mountain and Hidden Valley Wildlife Management Areas where turkey populations are being restored by the release of wild trapped birds.
Private lands in Buckingham, Caroline, Goochland, Highland, King and Queen, King William, Louisa, Prince Edward and Spotsylvania Counties will be closed but hunting will be permitted on National Forests, Commission owned lands and military areas located within these counties. These closures were at the request of local boards of supervisors.
Hunting regulations are similar to those in effect last spring except that hunters will be allowed in the woods from one-half hour before sunrise until 11 a.m. prevailing local time each day. Only bearded turkeys are legal game. Dogs, electronic calls and organized drives are prohibited. Rappahannock Co. is included in this season.
_ the National Wildlife Federation are available on a cost-share basis [to farmers through the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service. Information can be obtained from the county ASCS office.
Dead Line for Sign-up in the
[Wheat and Feed Grain programs |is Friday, March 21,1969.
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