Small-game hunting sites expanded

SULLIVAN COUNTY, NY — New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has expanded hunting access on lands that are part of the city’s watershed. Hunters will now be permitted to hunt small game in a variety of locations throughout the state, including three locations in Neversink: a hunting area on Woodard Road, one on Blue Hill and Hunter Roads and one on Aiden Hill Road.

The expanded 2006-2007 small-game program will run from the opening of squirrel season on September 1 to the close of spring turkey season at the end of May, 2007. Previously, only deer hunting had been allowed on DEP lands. Next year, the department intends to extend the new hunting program to all city watershed lands where deer hunting is currently allowed, except in cases where individual towns, villages or counties object.

Visit nyc.gov/watershedrecreation for more information. At that site there is also a new online application for DEP access permits that allows users to receive a new permit instantly and to print out copies of existing permits they may have lost. Hunt tags, which are required in addition to access permits in order to hunt deer or small game, will be available on the web soon.