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Hunting Seasons (at a Glance)
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Season | Dates | Hours | Limits/Notes |
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Badger: Hunting and Trapping | - | Daily limit: Any number |
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Bear: Season | - | One-half hour before sunrise to one-half hour after sunset |
One black bear of either sex with the following restrictions:
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Beaver and Nutria: Trapping | - | Daily limit: Any number |
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Bobcat: Hunting and Trapping | - | Daily limit: Any number Bobcat pelts must be registered or tagged. Tagged bobcats and otters or their pelts may be possessed by the taker throughout the year. |
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Bullfrog and Green Frog: Hunting | - | Season opens at sunset on opening day. Check sunrise and sunset times in your area. |
Daily limit: 8 (combined total of both species) Only the daily limit may be possessed on waters and banks of waters being fished or hunted. |
Common Snipe: Hunting | - | One-half hour before sunrise to sunset |
Daily limit: 8 |
Coyote: Hunting | - | Coyotes may not be taken during the daylight hours from April 1 through the day prior to the beginning of the Spring Turkey Hunting season |
Daily limit: Any number Coyotes, except as otherwise provided in this section, may be taken by hunting, and pelts and carcasses may be possessed, transported, and sold in any numbers throughout the year. Special method restrictions apply during spring turkey season, elk season and deer season. See Allowed & Prohibited methods. |
Coyote: Trapping | - | Daily limit: Any number Extended trapping season on private land from March 1 to April 14. Only foot-hold traps, foot-enclosing traps, and cage-type traps may be used. |
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Crow: Hunting | - | One-half hour before sunrise to sunset |
Daily limit: Any number |
Deer: Archery |
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One-half hour before sunrise to one-half hour after sunset |
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Deer: Firearms: Alternative Methods | - | One-half hour before sunrise to one-half hour after sunset |
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Deer: Firearms: Antlerless Portions |
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One-half hour before sunrise to one-half hour after sunset |
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Deer: Firearms: CWD Portion | - | One-half hour before sunrise to one-half hour after sunset |
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Deer: Firearms: November Portion | - | One-half hour before sunrise to one-half hour after sunset |
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Deer: Firearms: Youth Portions |
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One-half hour before sunrise to one-half hour after sunset |
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Dove: Falconry | - | One-half hour before sunrise to sunset |
Daily limit: 3 Any ducks, coots, or mergansers taken by falconers must be included in these limits.
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Dove: Hunting | - | One-half hour before sunrise to sunset |
Daily limit: 15 Combined total of all dove species |
Ducks and Coots Hunting: Middle Zone |
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One-half hour before sunrise to sunset |
Ducks: Daily limit of 6 with species restrictions below, possession limit of 18 Coots: Daily limit of 15, possession limit of 45. |
Ducks and Coots Hunting: North Zone | - | One-half hour before sunrise to sunset |
Ducks: Daily limit of 6 with species restrictions below, possession limit of 18 Coots: Daily limit of 15, possession limit of 45. |
Ducks and Coots Hunting: South Zone |
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One-half hour before sunrise to sunset |
Ducks: Daily limit of 6 with species restrictions below, possession limit of 18 Coots: Daily limit of 15, possession limit of 45. |
Ducks, Coots, and Geese Hunting: Youth: Middle Zone | - | One-half hour before sunrise to sunset |
Ducks: Daily limit of 6 with species restrictions below, possession limit of 18 Coots: Daily limit of 15, possession limit of 45. See the zone boundary map for areas in the middle zone. Youth hunters must be age 15 or younger and accompanied by an adult 18 years old or older who is not allowed to hunt ducks but who can participate in other open seasons. |
Ducks, Coots, and Geese Hunting: Youth: North Zone | - | One-half hour before sunrise to sunset |
Ducks: Daily limit of 6 with species restrictions below, possession limit of 18 Coots: Daily limit of 15, possession limit of 45. See the zone boundary map for areas in the north zone. Youth hunters must be age 15 or younger and accompanied by an adult 18 years old or older who is not allowed to hunt ducks but who can participate in other open seasons. |
Ducks, Coots, and Geese Hunting: Youth: South Zone | - | One-half hour before sunrise to sunset |
Ducks: Daily limit of 6 with species restrictions below, possession limit of 18 Coots: Daily limit of 15, possession limit of 45. See the zone boundary map for areas in the south zone. Youth hunters must be age 15 or younger and accompanied by an adult 18 years old or older who is not allowed to hunt ducks but who can participate in other open seasons. |
Ducks, Coots, and Mergansers: Falconry | - | Sunrise to sunset during the September teal season, one-half hour before sunrise to sunset during the remaining seasons. |
Daily limit: 3 birds, combined total of doves, ducks, and coots. Season is also open during the regular duck-hunting seasons, including teal and youth waterfowl seasons. |
Early Canada Goose and Brant: Hunting | - | One-half hour before sunrise to sunset |
Daily limit: 3 Daily and possession limits are brant and Canada geese combined. |
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