Pennsylvania Game Commission Reminds Landowners That DMAP Application Deadline is July 1

Hunters can review DMAP enrollment listings beginning today

    HARRISBURG, Pa., June 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Eligible landowners
 interested in enrolling in the Pennsylvania Game Commission's Deer
 Management Assistance Program (DMAP), which is designed to help landowners
 manage deer on their properties, have until July 1 to submit an application
 for the 2007-08 hunting seasons to the appropriate Region Office.
 Applications must be postmarked or hand-delivered to the agency by July 1.
     In addition, a map delineating the landowner's property boundaries must
 be enclosed with the application. DMAP applications may be obtained from
 the Game Commission's website (http://www.pgc.state.pa.us) by clicking on
 the "DMAP" icon in the center of the homepage and then choosing "DMAP
 landowner applications." Applications also can be obtained from any Game
 Commission Region Office or the Harrisburg headquarters.
     Eligible lands for DMAP are: public lands; private lands where no fee
 is charged for hunting; and hunting club lands owned in fee title so long
 as the club was established prior to Jan. 1, 2000, and they provide a club
 charter and list of current members to the agency. Private hunting clubs
 are no longer required to own a minimum of 1,000 contiguous acres before
 being eligible.
     Coupons for DMAP antlerless deer harvest permits may be issued to
 landowners at a rate of one coupon for every five acres in agricultural
 operations or one coupon for every 50 acres for all other land uses.
 Management plans will be required only when an applicant for DMAP requests
 more than the standard rate for issuance of DMAP harvest permits.
     Landowners must designate their boundaries in a manner approved by the
 Game Commission. Landowners will receive one coupon for each DMAP permit
 allocated for their property, and they may give up to two DMAP coupons per
 DMAP area to a licensed hunter, who will then apply to the Game Commission
 for DMAP harvest permits. Landowners may not charge or accept any
 remuneration for a DMAP coupon. Hunters may possess up to two DMAP permits
 for a specific DMAP property in any given license year.
     DMAP permit allotments will be made separate from the general
 antlerless deer license allocations, and will be $10 for residents and $35
 for nonresidents.
     Hunters looking to get a head start on the 2007-08 deer seasons now can
 begin reviewing a listing of public properties enrolled in DMAP, as well as
 those private lands seeking additional hunter participation, which is
 available on the agency's website (http://www.pgc.state.pa.us) by clicking
 on the "DMAP" icon in the center of the homepage and then choosing
 "Qualified landowners participating in DMAP." The listing will be updated
 as more landowner applications are received, approved and entered into the
 database.
     Those without access to the Internet can obtain listings by mailing a
 self-addressed, stamped envelope, along with a letter indicating their
 county of interest, to the Game Commission Region Office responsible for
 that particular county.
     Region Office contact information, and a listing of counties in their
 jurisdiction, is as follows:
     Northwest Region Office, P.O. Box 31, Franklin, PA 16323. 814-432-3188.
 Butler, Clarion, Crawford, Erie, Forest, Jefferson, Lawrence, Mercer,
 Venango and Warren counties.
     Southwest Region Office, 4820 Route 711, Bolivar, PA 15923.
 724-238-9523. Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Cambria, Fayette, Greene,
 Indiana, Somerset, Washington and Westmoreland counties.
     Northcentral Region Office, P.O. Box 5038, Jersey Shore, PA 17740. 570-
 398-4744. Cameron, Centre, Clearfield, Clinton, Elk, Lycoming, McKean,
 Potter, Tioga, and Union counties.
     Southcentral Region Office, 8627 William Penn Highway, Huntingdon, PA
 16652. 814-643-1831. Adams, Bedford, Blair, Cumberland, Franklin, Fulton,
 Huntingdon, Juniata, Mifflin, Perry and Snyder counties.
     Northeast Region Office, P.O. Box 220, Dallas, PA 18612. 570-675-1143.
 Bradford, Carbon, Columbia, Lackawanna, Luzerne, Monroe, Montour,
 Northumberland, Pike, Sullivan, Susquehanna, Wayne and Wyoming counties.
     Southeast Region Office, 448 Snyder Rd., Reading, PA 19605.
 610-926-3136. Berks, Bucks, Chester, Dauphin, Delaware, Lancaster, Lebanon,
 Lehigh, Montgomery, Northampton, Philadelphia, Schuylkill and York
 counties.
     Created in 1895 as an independent state agency, the Game Commission is
 responsible for conserving and managing all wild birds and mammals in the
 Commonwealth, establishing hunting seasons and bag limits, enforcing
 hunting and trapping laws, and managing habitat on the 1.4 million acres of
 State Game Lands it has purchased over the years with hunting and furtaking
 license dollars to safeguard wildlife habitat. The agency also conducts
 numerous wildlife conservation programs for schools, civic organizations
 and sportsmen's clubs.
     The Game Commission does not receive any general state taxpayer dollars
 for its annual operating budget. The agency is funded by license sales
 revenues; the state's share of the federal Pittman-Robertson program, which
 is an excise tax collected through the sale of sporting arms and
 ammunition; and monies from the sale of oil, gas, coal, timber and minerals
 derived from State Game Lands.
     Note to Editors: If you would like to receive Game Commission news
 releases via e-mail, please send a note with your name, address, telephone
 number and the name of the organization you represent to:
 PGCNews@state.pa.us.
     For Information Contact:
     Jerry Feaser
     717-705-6541
     PGCNEWS@state.pa.us
 
 

SOURCE Pennsylvania Game Commission