Winners Of Kentucky Elk Hunt Lottery Announced
May 6, 2012
FRANKFORT, Ky. – Results of the Kentucky elk hunt lottery drawing are now available online at fw.ky.gov.
Final results show that 33,675 people submitted an application for one of the 905 quota hunt permits to be issued by the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources this year.
Kentucky’s hunt of a lifetime drew interest from hunters across the country, including three from Hawaii, 25 from Alaska, 24 from Maine and 59 from California. Hunters could apply for up to two permits. Kentucky Fish and Wildlife received 59,672 permit applications, meaning the majority of hunters applied more than once.
The Kentucky Commonwealth Office of Technology conducted the drawing Thursday, May 3, using a random computer program.
Hunters may visit the Kentucky Fish and Wildlife website to check if they were drawn. Hunters must either enter their social security number, or their birth date and the 19-digit number they received while applying. Applicants should enter the information carefully to make sure they do not put in an incorrect number.
Drawn hunters also will receive a notification letter from Kentucky Fish and Wildlife. Hunters have until July 1 to apply online for an Elk Hunting Unit (EHU). Kentucky’s elk hunting zone is subdivided into units to help spread hunting pressure. A second drawing is conducted to determine an individual’s hunting unit.
Hunters should visit the department website for more information regarding hunting unit selection. The website also contains maps and additional information on public hunting lands within the elk zone.
Application Period for Tennessee’s Fourth Elk Hunt to be Held April 1-May 31, 2012
April 1, 2012
NASHVILLE — The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency will accept applications from April 1 through May 31, 2012 for participation in Tennessee’s fourth managed elk hunt. (Persons can begin applying after 8 a.m. (CDT) on Sunday, April 1).PA Game Commission Awards 56 Elk Licenses /PRNewswire-USNewswire/
September 14, 2011
HARRISBURG, Pa., Sept. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — After a five-day delay prompted by Tropical Storm Lee flooding that forced the closure of state offices in the Harrisburg area last week, Pennsylvania Game Commission officials today held a public drawing to award 56 elk licenses for the 2011 season. The event also was webcast via the agency’s website, drew 599 viewers, and served as a means to enable more people to view the public drawing. All 56 hunters selected to receive a license will be mailed a confirmation letter within about a week.
“Over the past two years, we have been pleased to enable the tens of thousands of individuals who apply for an elk license to find out via our webcast if they had been drawn,” said Carl G. Roe, Game Commission executive director. “We recognize everyone who applies is unable to attend and, given our financial limitations, we can’t afford to send everyone who applied for an elk license a letter letting them know whether they were drawn; we only notify those who were selected.
“By webcasting the public drawing, we reached far more than the two dozen people who attended the event at the agency’s Harrisburg headquarters. In fact, according to the webcasting service we used for today’s broadcast, we saw there were 599 people tuned in at one time.”
Roe noted there were 18,253 individuals who applied for the drawing. An additional 487 applicants only purchased a preference point for this year, and were not included in the drawing.
“While state law prevents the agency from publishing a list of today’s winners, thanks to another of the agency’s technological leaps forward, those who were in today’s drawings can check on the status of their applications, by Sept. 23, thanks to the new Pennsylvania Automated License System (PALS),” Roe said. Click Link Below For Full Story!
Kentucky Elk Hunt Lottery Deadline Is April 30
April 19, 2011
FRANKFORT, Ky. – Calling all elk hunters – the deadline to apply for Kentucky’s elk hunt lottery is fast approaching.
Lottery applications must be purchased online at fw.ky.gov by midnight (Eastern time) April 30.
New this year, hunters may apply for up to two of four permit types: bull firearms, bull archery or crossbow, cow firearms and cow archery or crossbow. Hunters may not, however, apply twice for one permit type.
“Offering separate permits is in response to hunter requests,” said Tina Brunjes, deer and elk program coordinator for the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources. “In the past, a significant number of hunters who drew cow permits chose not to hunt. Since hunters will now be able to apply for a cow permit, we feel like more of these will be filled.”
Lottery applications are $10 for each permit sought.
Kentucky Fish and Wildlife will issue 800 permits in its general hunt lottery to successful applicants, including 80 permits for antlered elk (archery or crossbow); 120 permits for antlered elk (firearms); 240 permits for antlerless elk (archery or crossbow) and 360 permits for antlerless elk (firearms).
Additionally, hunters who will be younger than 16 years old on the first day of the hunt may apply for the youth-only quota elk hunt at Paul Van Booven Wildlife Management Area (WMA) and adjacent private lands (with landowner permission) for the weekend of Sept. 24-26. Five permits for either a bull or cow elk will be awarded in the youth-only drawing.
Also new this year, there will be a two-week archery-only (no crossbows) bull elk season Sept. 17-30.
Youth under 16 years of age, seniors 65 years of age and older, and persons with a crossbow exemption may hunt with a crossbow during the entire elk archery season.
Firearms hunters may only hunt during the seven-day firearms season for which they were drawn; they may not hunt with archery gear or crossbows outside of that week. An archery or crossbow hunter may not hunt during the four weeks of firearms elk hunts.
Only individuals, not groups of hunters, may apply for Kentucky’s elk lottery. A random computer drawing will be held in early May to select hunters for the quota hunts.
Hunters drawn for a bull elk permit will be blocked for three years from applying for another bull elk permit. For example, hunters drawn for a 2011-12 season bull permit are ineligible to apply for another bull permit until the 2015-16 elk season. Youth drawn for the youth-only elk hunt at Paul Van Booven WMA will be permanently blocked from applying for that hunt again.
The 16-county elk zone is 4.1 million acres and is divided into 10 Elk Hunting Units (EHUs) with a total of 576,994 acres open to public hunting. The EHUs have been established to manage the elk herd, spread out hunting pressure and provide hunters with a high chance of success.
Kentucky’s elk herd was first hunted on Oct. 6, 2001. Last season, hunters took 540 elk, including 198 bulls and 342 cows.
For elk season dates and other information on elk hunting in Kentucky, go to http://fw.ky.gov/elkfaq08.asp on the Kentucky Fish and Wildlife website.
NM hunters get a larger slice of elk, other big game licenses under Senate-passed bill :: The Republic
March 8, 2011
SANTA FE, N.M. — New Mexicans will get a larger share of licenses to hunt elk and other big game under a bill heading to the House.
The Senate approved a measure 38-3 Wednesday to earmark 84 percent of licenses for New Mexico hunters in the yearly drawing for the right to hunt elk, deer and other big game on public land.
Currently, 78 percent of licenses are designated for New Mexicans and 22 percent go to out-of-state hunters.
The bill by Democratic Sen. George Munoz of Gallup reserves 10 percent of licenses for nonresidents guided by a New Mexico outfitter, down from 12 percent currently. Six percent of licenses will go to other out-of-state hunters.
Drawing applicants must buy a small game license, costing $65 for nonresidents and $15 for New Mexicans.
Why Is Maine’s Moose Lottery and Hunt Disappearing? – DownEast.Com
July 1, 2010
By George Smith
You’d have to conclude that hunters are losing interest in Maine’s moose hunt, judging by the huge decline in applicants in the state’s once-popular moose lottery.
Since lottery applications peaked in 1994 at 94,532, applications from residents have declined by 50 percent and from nonresidents by 37 percent.
In the last two years alone, applications have decreased by a stunning 23 percent.
The number of applications this year was the lowest in the twenty-eight years of the state’s modern moose hunt. A total of 49,729 hunters applied this year for moose hunting permits, including 37,012 residents and 12,717 nonresidents.
More than 60,000 resident and nonresident hunters applied for permits in the first regular moose hunting season in 1982. An initial “experimental” season held in 1980 attracted 36,636 applicants. That lottery was closed to nonresidents.
Department leaders said that the recession, high cost of the hunt, and lost interest on the part of hunters who have never won a permit are the reasons for the decline in sales.
They continue to deny that their decision in 2009 to stop printing and mailing applications to previous lottery participants, and instead to go to an online application process only, has made any difference. Clearly, it has. Click link below for full story!
N.H. moose hunt lottery deadline is May 28 | SeacoastOnline.com
May 24, 2010
CONCORD — Want a chance to hunt moose in New Hampshire this fall? Then you better get moving! The deadline for entering the 2010 New Hampshire Moose Hunt Lottery is Friday, May 28, 2010. You may be one of 395 lucky hunters who will be drawn for New Hampshire moose hunting permits – a chance for the adventure of a lifetime.It’s easy to enter. Visit http://www.huntnh.com to apply online or print a mail-in application, or pick up a lottery application from any license agent. The entry fee is $15 for New Hampshire residents and $25 for nonresidents nonrefundable. Each applicant can enter the moose hunt lottery once each year. You don’t need a current hunting license to enter.Related Stories Wild turkey season gets under way in Maine N.H. opens moose hunt lotteryA word to the wise: If possible, do apply online; it greatly reduces the chance of leaving information off or making a mistake. Late or incomplete applications are not accepted. Don’t wait until the last minute to apply; every year we hear from disappointed people who missed out on the lottery because they ran into problems with their computer or Internet connection.Applications submitted by mail must be postmarked no later than midnight, May 28, 2010, to be eligible for the lottery. If submitting a paper application by mail on May 28, take it to the post office and try to have it postmarked while you are there; just dropping it in a mailbox does not ensure that it will be postmarked by the deadline.Take advantage of the bonus point system to improve your chance of winning. Unsuccessful applicants build up a point each year they apply. Don’t miss a year, or you’ll lose your points!New Hampshire continues to have some of the best odds in the nation for drawing a moose hunt permit. The overall odds of being selected in last year’s lottery were 1 in 22 for New Hampshire residents and 1 in 63 for nonresidents.Winners will be selected through a computerized random drawing on June 18, 2010.New Hampshire’s 2010 moose hunt runs from October 16 to 24. Find out more about moose hunting in New Hampshire, at http://www.huntnh.com/Hunting/Hunt_species/hunt_moose.htm.
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Take time to enter lottery for moose hunt – Bangor Daily News
January 27, 2010
By John Holyoke
BDN Staff
Take time to enter lottery for Sometime in June, hundreds of prospective moose hunters will head to L.L. Bean in Freeport to find out if this is finally the year they get to enjoy the hunt of a lifetime.
Of course, if you want to be included on the list of lucky hunters, you’ve got to enter the state-run permit lottery. And there’s no time like the present to take care of those simple logistics.
I know, I know. You’ve got plenty of time between now and then. You’ll get around to entering the lottery eventually.
Unfortunately, I’ve heard that before. Several times, in fact. Truth be told, three close acquaintances, two of whom I’ve actually gone moose hunting with, have missed out on past lotteries because … well … they just never got around to entering.
Believe me: You don’t want that to happen to you. Think of how sad you’ll be. Or, if that doesn’t work, think of how much grief your hunting buddies will give you. (If you want proof, I’ve got a couple of hunting buddies who can provide it).
This year a total of 3,140 moose permits will be allotted to hunters. No more than 10 percent of those permits will go to non-residents. The rest are for Mainers.
This year’s two primary moose seasons will run from Sept. 27 through Oct. 2 and from Oct. 11 through Oct. 16.
Additional hunts with fewer permits outstanding will be staged from Nov. 1 through 6 in Wildlife Management Districts 2, 3, 6 and 11, and from Nov. 1-27 in WMDs 15, 16, 23 and 26. A Maine hunt for Maine residents will be staged on Oct. 30, preceding the monthlong November season, in WMDs 15, 16, 23 and 26.
The simplest way to register for the permit lottery is to go to the Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife Web site — www.mefishwildlife.com — and use the MOSES system.
Since the state has moved toward on-line lottery registration, and has stopped mailing out application forms to those who registered in past years, a number of people have voiced frustration with the process.
And while the DIF&W wants as many people as possible to register via the Internet, it understands that some folks just don’t have Internet access.
For those, there are a couple of options. First, the state will accept paper applications that you print off a computer and mail to them.
If that’s not an option, you can visit the DIF&W office in Augusta and fill out an application.
Finally, the DIF&W will send you an application if you send a stamped, self-addressed envelope to them at this address: Moose Permit Application Request, Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife, 41 State House Station, 284 State –Street, Augusta, 04333-0041.
The deadline for entry via the Internet is 11:59 p.m. on May 14. Paper applications must be postmarked by April 1 or delivered personally to the DIF&W before 5 p.m. on April 1.
For Maine residents, one chance in the lottery will cost you $7, three chances cost $12 and six chances cost $22. Non-resident fees: $15 for one chance, $25 for three, $35 for six, or $55 for 10. Non-residents are allowed to purchase multiples of 10 chances at $55 each. Maine residents may only purchase seven or fewer chances.
Resident hunters who are selected in the lottery will then be required to pay a $52 permit fee before their hunt. Non-residents pay a $484 permit fee.
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