rick
Administrator
State says million population needs thinned
By Byron Stout
Originally posted on April 20, 2006
Florida's wildlife managers are more than doubling the length of this year's statewide alligator hunt, and license holders will be able to buy as many harvest permits as they like.
Instead of a five-week season in September and early October, gator hunting will begin Aug. 15 and run through Nov. 1. And gator trappers previously limited to two gator harvest tags will be able to buy additional permits at two for $61.50, at least while the supply of 4,000 lasts.
Cape Coral gator hunter Curt Harden hopes to do his share of harvesting.
A large alligator turns toward passengers on an airboat ride at Lake Trafford on Wednesday.
"I love it," Harden said of the sport he took up four years ago, stalking gators with a crossbow and fishing arrows on Lake Okeechobee.
Florida estimates its population of adult gators at.....
The rest: http://www.news-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060420/NEWS0105/604200387/1002/NEWS01
By Byron Stout
Originally posted on April 20, 2006
Florida's wildlife managers are more than doubling the length of this year's statewide alligator hunt, and license holders will be able to buy as many harvest permits as they like.
Instead of a five-week season in September and early October, gator hunting will begin Aug. 15 and run through Nov. 1. And gator trappers previously limited to two gator harvest tags will be able to buy additional permits at two for $61.50, at least while the supply of 4,000 lasts.
Cape Coral gator hunter Curt Harden hopes to do his share of harvesting.
A large alligator turns toward passengers on an airboat ride at Lake Trafford on Wednesday.
"I love it," Harden said of the sport he took up four years ago, stalking gators with a crossbow and fishing arrows on Lake Okeechobee.
Florida estimates its population of adult gators at.....
The rest: http://www.news-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060420/NEWS0105/604200387/1002/NEWS01
