View WDFW rulemaking website for 2025 Hunting Regulations
The department is considering rule changes to recreational hunting and Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) related regulations for the 2025 hunting season.
Reasons why a rule may be needed and what may be accomplished?:
The department needs to clarify and amend rules to either expand or decrease recreational hunting opportunities, while maintaining sustainable game populations. In addition, the department must develop recreational hunting rules that make allowances for the emergency rule filed on July 11, 2024, that increased special hunt permits by 738 and decreased Mountain Goat raffle permits to zero for the 2024-25 hunting season. Furthermore, the department needs to establish permanent rules to reduce the spread of CWD in the cervid populations.
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