Pennsylvania Game Commission Reminds Landowners That DMAP Application Deadline is July 1
Source: Pennsylvania Game Commission
June 06, 2007
Hunters can review DMAP enrollment listings beginning today
HARRISBURG, Pa., June 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Eligible landowners
interested in enrolling in the Pennsylvania Game Commission's Deer
Management Assistance Program (DMAP), which is designed to help landowners
manage deer on their properties, have until July 1 to submit an application
for the 2007-08 hunting seasons to the appropriate Region Office.
Applications must be postmarked or hand-delivered to the agency by July 1.
In addition, a map delineating the landowner's property boundaries must
be enclosed with the application. DMAP applications may be obtained from
the Game Commission's website (http://www.pgc.state.pa.us) by clicking on
the "DMAP" icon in the center of the homepage and then choosing "DMAP
landowner applications." Applications also can be obtained from any Game
Commission Region Office or the Harrisburg headquarters.
Eligible lands for DMAP are: public lands; private lands where no fee
is charged for hunting; and hunting club lands owned in fee title so long
as the club was established prior to Jan. 1, 2000, and they provide a club
charter and list of current members to the agency. Private hunting clubs
are no longer required to own a minimum of 1,000 contiguous acres before
being eligible.
Coupons for DMAP antlerless deer harvest permits may be issued to
landowners at a rate of one coupon for every five acres in agricultural
operations or one coupon for every 50 acres for all other land uses.
Management plans will be required only when an applicant for DMAP requests
more than the standard rate for issuance of DMAP harvest permits.
Landowners must designate their boundaries in a manner approved by the
Game Commission. Landowners will receive one coupon for each DMAP permit
allocated for their property, and they may give up to two DMAP coupons per
DMAP area to a licensed hunter, who will then apply to the Game Commission
for DMAP harvest permits. Landowners may not charge or accept any
remuneration for a DMAP coupon. Hunters may possess up to two DMAP permits
for a specific DMAP property in any given license year.
DMAP permit allotments will be made separate from the general
antlerless deer license allocations, and will be $10 for residents and $35
for nonresidents.
Hunters looking to get a head start on the 2007-08 deer seasons now can
begin reviewing a listing of public properties enrolled in DMAP, as well as
those private lands seeking additional hunter participation, which is
available on the agency's website (http://www.pgc.state.pa.us) by clicking
on the "DMAP" icon in the center of the homepage and then choosing
"Qualified landowners participating in DMAP." The listing will be updated
as more landowner applications are received, approved and entered into the
database.
Those without access to the Internet can obtain listings by mailing a
self-addressed, stamped envelope, along with a letter indicating their
county of interest, to the Game Commission Region Office responsible for
that particular county.
Region Office contact information, and a listing of counties in their
jurisdiction, is as follows:
Northwest Region Office, P.O. Box 31, Franklin, PA 16323. 814-432-3188.
Butler, Clarion, Crawford, Erie, Forest, Jefferson, Lawrence, Mercer,
Venango and Warren counties.
Southwest Region Office, 4820 Route 711, Bolivar, PA 15923.
724-238-9523. Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Cambria, Fayette, Greene,
Indiana, Somerset, Washington and Westmoreland counties.
Northcentral Region Office, P.O. Box 5038, Jersey Shore, PA 17740. 570-
398-4744. Cameron, Centre, Clearfield, Clinton, Elk, Lycoming, McKean,
Potter, Tioga, and Union counties.
Southcentral Region Office, 8627 William Penn Highway, Huntingdon, PA
16652. 814-643-1831. Adams, Bedford, Blair, Cumberland, Franklin, Fulton,
Huntingdon, Juniata, Mifflin, Perry and Snyder counties.
Northeast Region Office, P.O. Box 220, Dallas, PA 18612. 570-675-1143.
Bradford, Carbon, Columbia, Lackawanna, Luzerne, Monroe, Montour,
Northumberland, Pike, Sullivan, Susquehanna, Wayne and Wyoming counties.
Southeast Region Office, 448 Snyder Rd., Reading, PA 19605.
610-926-3136. Berks, Bucks, Chester, Dauphin, Delaware, Lancaster, Lebanon,
Lehigh, Montgomery, Northampton, Philadelphia, Schuylkill and York
counties.
Created in 1895 as an independent state agency, the Game Commission is
responsible for conserving and managing all wild birds and mammals in the
Commonwealth, establishing hunting seasons and bag limits, enforcing
hunting and trapping laws, and managing habitat on the 1.4 million acres of
State Game Lands it has purchased over the years with hunting and furtaking
license dollars to safeguard wildlife habitat. The agency also conducts
numerous wildlife conservation programs for schools, civic organizations
and sportsmen's clubs.
The Game Commission does not receive any general state taxpayer dollars
for its annual operating budget. The agency is funded by license sales
revenues; the state's share of the federal Pittman-Robertson program, which
is an excise tax collected through the sale of sporting arms and
ammunition; and monies from the sale of oil, gas, coal, timber and minerals
derived from State Game Lands.
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Jerry Feaser
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