Commission to consider elk and antelope hunt orders on Dec. 5

Commission to consider elk and antelope hunt orders on Dec. 5

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The Arizona Game and Fish Commission will consider and may vote to approve Commission Orders 3 (pronghorn antelope), 4 (elk), and 26 (population management) for the 2010 fall hunting season during the Saturday portion of its regularly scheduled meeting on Dec. 4-5. The commission orders establish seasons and season dates, bag and possession limits, permit numbers or authorized limits, and open areas.

The hunt recommendation package includes a proposed allocation of big game permits to Hopi hunters in Game Management Units 4A, 5A and 5B as part of a Cooperative Agreement between Game and Fish and the Hopi Tribe that allows hunter access by the general populace onto about 160,000 acres of sovereign Hopi Trust Lands within those units for the 2010 elk and antelope hunts. The hunt recommendation package can be viewed by clicking on the link at www.azgfd.gov/huntguidelines. Background on Hopi Trust Lands and the Cooperative Agreement can be found by clicking here.

For the full commission meeting agenda for Friday and Saturday, visit www.azgfd.gov/commission, click on “commission agenda,” and scroll down to the link for the Dec. 4-5 meeting.

The public can view the meeting any of three ways: (1) attending the meeting in person in Phoenix; (2) viewing it via video stream at five of the six Game and Fish regional offices (Flagstaff is unavailable at this time due to office construction); or, (3) viewing it over the Web at www.azgfd.gov/commissioncam.

Those wishing to submit “blue slips” to present oral comment during the meeting must do so either in person at the Phoenix meeting or at one of the five regional Game and Fish offices that will be showing the video stream (Flagstaff is unavailable at this time due to office construction). For office addresses, visit www.azgfd.gov/offices.

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