Just two days into the initial application period for 2013-14 doe licenses, wildlife management units covering the traditional, deer camp, Big Woods region in northcentral Pennsylvania are nearly half-way through their allocations.
According to the Pennsylvania Game Commission's online tally after close of business on Tuesday, 10,055 of the 2013-14 allocation of 29,000 antlerless deer permits for WMU 2F have been awarded to hunters, 11,121 of an allocation of 28,000 for WMU 2G and 4,020 of an allocation of 6,000 for WMU 2H, which is a new WMU this year carved out of the western third of WMU 2G.
No other WMUs in the state are close to half-way through their allocations.
In Central Pennsylvania: WMU 4A, 5,066 awarded out of an allocation of 28,000; 4B, 6,164out of 24,000; 4C, 4,765 out of 27,000; 4D, 8,178 out of 35,000; 4E, 2,367 out of 26,000; 5A, 1,360 out of 19,000; 5B, 3,166 out of 50,000; and 5C, where the commission has been unable to award all of its enormous allocation in past years, 458 out of 103,000.
And, elsewhere in the state: WMU 1A, 2,484 awarded out of an allocation of 49,000; 1B, 5,488 out of 31,000; 2A, 1,548 out of 49,000; 2B, 170 out of 62,000; 2C, 4,416 out of 43,000; 2D, 8,231 out of 61,000; 2E, 2,334 out of 22,000; 3A, 1, 774 out of 23,000; 3B, 1,887 out of 39,000; 3C, 2,943 out of 35,000; 3D, 2,281 out of 32,000; and 5D, 91 out of 18,000.
County treasurers across the state started accepting applications through the mail on Monday.
During the first three weeks of the application period, only Pennsylvania residents may apply. Nonresidents may apply beginning Monday, July 29. Then beginning on Monday, Aug. 5, residents and nonresidents may apply for any unsold licenses that remain. A second round of unsold license sales begins Monday, Aug. 19.