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Just in time for the Winter Olympics, CBS 7’s Tatum Hubbard hit the ice with a very athletic 15-year-old for a little "speed skating."
New Laws In Effect for Hunting Season 11/2/2009
Odessa, Texas - This year, deer hunters are facing several new changes. Among these changes are 52 new counties added to the list of antler restrictions, expansion of doe days, and expanded days of hunting.
One of the new rules hunters face this season is there are new counties with antler restrictions of one with forked antlers and an inside spread of at least 13 inches or a spike include: Anderson, Angelina, Archer, Atascosa, Brazos, Brown, Chambers, Clay, Cooke, Denton, Ellis, Falls, Freestone, Grayson, Grimes, Hardin, Harris, Henderson, Hill, Hood, Hunt, Jack, Jasper, Jefferson, Johnson, Kaufman, Liberty, Limestone, Madison, McLennan, Milam, Mills, Montague, Montgomery, Navarro, Newton, Orange, Palo, Pinto, Parker, Polk, Robertson, San Jacinto, Smith, Stephens, Tarrant, Trinity, Tyler, Van Zandt, Walker, Wichita, Wise and Young.
Northeast Texas counties with four doe-days, Nov. 26-29 include: Anderson, Henderson, Hunt, Leon, Rains, Smith and Van Zandt.
East Texas counties going from four to 16 doe, Nov. 7-22 include: Bowie and Rusk
East Texas counties from four to 30 doe days, Nov. 7-29 include: Cherokee and Houston.
East Texas counties added to the late muzzleloader season, Jan. 4-17 include: Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Gregg, Marion, Morris, Nacogdoches, Panola, Rusk and Upshur.
Cross Timbers and Prairies and eastern Rolling Plains counties increasing from three deer with no more than one buck, no more than two antlerless. With four deer, no more than two bucks and no more than two antlerless. With five deer, no more than two bucks. These rules are enforced in the following counties: Archer, Baylor, Bell, Bosque, Callahan, Clay, Coryell, Hamilton, Haskell, Hill, Jack, Jones, Knox, Lampasas, McLennan, Palo Pinto, Shackleford, Somervell, Stephens, Taylor, Throckmorton, Wichita, Wilbarger, Williamson and Young.
Trans Pecos counties increasing from four deer to five include: Pecos, Terrell and Upton counties.
Rolling Plains counties increasing from three deer to five deer include: Armstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Childress, Collingsworth, Cottle, Crosby, Dickens, Donley, Fisher, Floyd, Foard, Garza, Gray, Hall, Hardeman, Hemphill, Hutchinson, Kent, King, Lipscomb, Motley, Ochiltree, Roberts, Scurry, Stonewall, and Wheeler.
Counties with a white-tailed deer hunting season expanding from 16 days to the full general season include: Dawson, Deaf Smith and Martin counties. Hunters are restricted to three deer, no more than one buck and no more than two antlerless.
Counties adding a season-long open anterless deer season include: Cooke, Dallam, Denton, Hardeman, Hartley, Hill, Johnson, Moore, Oldham, Potter, Sherman, Tarrant, Wichita and Wilbarger counties.
There have also been changes made to separate seasons for hunting mule deer. These dates include: Nov. 28 through Dec. 13 in the Trans-Pecos region of West Texas.
Hunters must have their 2009-2010 hunting license, along with any required hunter education certification. Upland game bird, migratory game bird and federal migratory game bird stamp endoresments must be purchased prior to hunting. If you do hunt migratory birds of any kind, you also need the Harvest Information Program (HIP) notation on your license. It doesn’t cost anything to get it from the license retailer but it could cost you if a warden cites you for hunting without it.
Hunters should consult Texas Parks and Wildlifes Department 2009-2010 Outdoor Annual for Additional changes.
To read more about these changes you can check out the following websites.
CLICK HERE to read more on the story from the Tyler Paper.
CLICK HERE to see the story in the Austin American-Statesman
