Pheasant hunt runs January through March

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Tuesday, October 21, 2003

Pilot program is coming

Pheasant hunt runs January through March

Outdoors

By Joe Michniewicz
TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF

The Massachusetts Wildlife Board, on a petition from the Worcester County League of Sportsmen's Clubs, has voted to start a pilot program to allow pheasants to be hunted on designated wildlife management areas during the winter. The program will begin Jan. 6 and continue through March 31.

Essentially, the program will be much like the Shooting Preserve permits held by some sportsmen's clubs and commercial preserves. Hunters must obtain a permit from a district office of MassWildlife to reserve a date to stock and hunt in a designated wildlife management area on a first-come, first-served basis. Only one area will be designated in each wildlife district. The permit will allow a group of licensed hunters to possess, liberate and hunt pheasants for one day. Only one of these permits will be issued for the designated area for any given day.

MassWildlife is currently designing the permit for the pilot program and designating the areas that will be a part of the program. In addition, a separate importation permit is required (as is already the case) for importing pheasants from an out-of-state location. More details on the program will be available in coming months.

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B.Y.O.F. ???????

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That's what I read, Skip. See, here's how it works: You pay for a hunting license, buy all the necessary permits and stamps, they put all that money in the general fund, then you have to BUY THE FREEKIN BIRDS to stock state land that's open to the public!

An average stocking at WFG is 25 birds in the a.m., out of those generally about 18 are taken that day... 7 are left roaming the property everyday stocking day. the diff here is that those birds are generally on private property open to those who paid for the things in first place.

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Only one area will be designated in each wildlife district[/b]

What are the chances this single WMA will recieve any stocking from the state?