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Deer licenses for the 2016-17 deer seasons are now available for purchase.
Information on license types and fees is at wildlife.IN.gov/2380.htm .
A new online license system requires users to set up an account to purchase licenses. Allow additional time to set up your account and enter your information if you haven't done so already.
All adults must set up an account to purchase a license in their own name. Youth licenses (under age 18) can be purchased from an adult's account as an ìassociation.î You must be at least 13 to create your own account.
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Still scratching your head over what’s legal and what isn’t in Indiana’s new deer rifle regulations?
Here are three questions that will guide you to the correct answers:
- Does the rifle have a barrel at least 16 inches long?
- Is the rifle chambered to fire a cartridge with a case length of at least 1.16 inches?
- Does that cartridge fire a bullet that is either .243 inches or .308 inches in diameter (or their metric equivalents, 6mm and 7.62mm, respectively)?
If the answer is yes to all three, then it’s legal under HEA 1231, a law passed earlier this year by the State Legislature.
If the answer is “no” to any of those three questions, it does not meet the HEA 1231 standards for new rifle options.
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Due to an editing error, dates in the 2016-17 DNR Hunting/Trapping Regulations Guide during which new rifle options for deer hunting in the deer reduction zone season are incorrect.
Legal rifle cartridges, including the new rifle options, can be used in deer reduction zones only from Nov. 12 through Jan. 31, 2017, and only where local ordinances allow the use of firearms.
The deer reduction zone season opened Sept. 15. Until Nov. 12, equipment choices are limited to archery and crossbows.
For more on the deer reduction zone season, see www.in.gov/dnr/fishwild/8534.htm.
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Funding will improve Trail Creek fish habitat.
The LaPorte County Parks Department received a $64,000 grant from the Indiana DNR to be used for bank stabilization and fish habitat enhancement of a 600 foot section of Trail Creek at Creek Ridge County Park.
A section of stream bank recently washed out causing a section of trail to be closed and boardwalk removed. This grant will address the failed bank and implement six sites of habitat improvements such as j-hooks and cross vanes. The work must be completed by September 1, 2018.
LaPorte County Parks Superintendent Jeremy Sobecki states “Our hope is to reduce the continued erosion of the hillside, improve fishing and hiking access and fish habitat. Once completed sedimentation will be reduced, fishing improved and access to the stream will be much safer for our visitors.”
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The Indiana DNR confirmed the presence of a black bear in and around Corydon in southern Indiana.
The bear was first reported around 9 p.m. Sunday. Indiana Conservation Officers received a call from a Harrison County homeowner of a bear going through the caller's garbage.
Conservation officers, sheriff's deputies and local animal control officers responded but did not locate a bear. On Monday morning, the bear was observed by several people, including conservation officers, in areas near State Road 62 and later in Corydon.
The sighting comes roughly a year after a black bear wandered into northwest Indiana from Michigan. That bear was the first verified presences of a bear in Indiana in more than 140 years. After spending several weeks in Indiana, the bear returned to Michigan.
Young black bears are known to disperse in the springtime as they seek new territory in which to settle. The bear is most likely wild and swam across the Ohio River from Kentucky. Kentucky has an expanding bear population.