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FWC reminds hunters of Big Cypress road closure
News Release March 2, 2011 Contact: Gabriella B. Ferraro, 772-215-9459 The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission reminds those seeking access to Big Cypress National Preserve of a road closure that takes effect March 3. Beginning Thursday, a portion of Loop Road within the Preserve, south of the Gator Hook Strand site and west to […]
Free hunter safety Internet-completion course in Washington County
News Release February 28, 2011 Contact: Stan Kirkland, 850-265-3676 The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) is offering a free hunter safety Internet-completion course in Washington County. The course will be at the Hard Labor Creek Plantation, 1963 Hard Labor Road, Chipley. Instruction will take place March 12 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. […]
Free hunter safety Internet-completion course in Wakulla County
News Release February 28, 2011 Contact: Stan Kirkland, 850-265-3676 The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) is offering a free hunter safety Internet-completion course in Wakulla County. The course will be at the Wakulla County Sheriff’s Office Otter Creek Range, 65 Qualify Lane, Crawfordville. Instruction will take place March 12 from 9 a.m. to […]
N. Florida spotted seatrout season reopens March 1
News Release February 25, 2011 Contact: Lee Schlesinger, 850-487-0554 The recreational harvest season for spotted seatrout in northern Florida reopens on March 1. This means all Florida waters will be open to the sport harvest of spotted seatrout beginning in March. Spotted seatrout harvest is prohibited in February in Atlantic Ocean waters north of the […]
Many FWC-managed lands get new dates for 2011-12 hunting season
News Release February 24, 2011 Contact: Tony Young, 850-488-7867 The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) passed new rules that modify hunting season dates on many FWC-managed areas. These rules become effective on July 1 and apply to the 2011-12 hunting season. For more than a year, the FWC and its partners and cooperating […]