WYG&F public meetings offer opportunities for hunters

WyomingGame and Fish wildlife biologists and wardens are putting together hunting season proposals for this fall. In the next couple of weeks, the department will have a series of open houses, followed by a formal season setting meeting. 

Game and Fish public information specialists work to ensure that the public is aware of these meetings because it is the primary opportunity for the biologists and wardens to sit with hunters and the general public to discuss a wide variety of subjects such as proposed license allocations, season length changes and other proposals for the coming fall. 

Game and Fish Public Information Specialist for the Sheridan Regional Office, Christina Scmidt, said the information personnel has been gathering all year is presented to the public during these meetings.  

C. Schmidt 

The first meetings are a series of open houses held throughout the region. 

C. Schmidt 

Attendees at the meetings can pick up printed copies of the proposals and can provide written comments at the meeting.

If someone cannot attend in person, presentations will be posted online that week from each district biologist, who will go over the proposals for their specific work area. That individual could then print out a comment form and mail it in or submit comments online. 

C. Schmidt 

All written and online comments are provided to the Commission to consider prior to their April meeting. Comments will be accepted through 5 p.m. on March 29. 

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A schedule and locations for the upcoming meetings can be found below. 

Tuesday March 19 – Kaycee Open House, Library, 4-7 p.m.

Wednesday March 20 – Buffalo Open House, Library 4-7 p.m.

Thursday March 21 – Sheridan Open House, Sheridan RO 4-7 p.m.

Tuesday March 26 – Gillette Open House, Library 4-7 p.m.

Wednesday March 27 – Sheridan Final meeting Sheridan RO 6 p.m.