Commission OKs Special Elk Hunt
Private-Land Hunt Set For January
Last updated Thursday, November 20, 2008 3:31 PM CST in Outdoors
By Joe Mosby
THE MORNING NEWS
A special elk hunt on private lands in Searcy County was given a go-ahead Thursday by the Arkansas Game & Fish Commission.
The hunt is scheduled for five days, Jan. 12-16, or when a quota of seven elk is reached. The quota calls for five antlerless elk, usually females, and two elk of either sex.
The hunt will be in the format used in past years in elk zones A and B, which is private land in Boone, Newton, Carroll and Madison counties.
Persons who apply for permits must have signed permission from a landowner when making the application. The permits cost $35. A permitted hunter can kill one elk.
The two either-sex permits, which will allow a hunter to choose to kill a bull elk, will be randomly drawn from the list of persons receiving permits.
Doyle Shook, the commission's chief of wildlife management, told the commissioners that landowners in Searcy County have the option of charging an access fee for hunters on their land.
Shook estimated that about a fifth of Arkansas' elk herd lives in Searcy County. The elk move back and forth on Buffalo National River public land and on the private land.
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