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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

50 CFR Part 20 

[Docket No. FWS–R9–MB–2010–0040; 

91200–1231–9BPP–L2] 

RIN 1018–AX06 

Migratory Bird Hunting; Final 

Frameworks for Late-Season Migratory 

Bird Hunting Regulations 

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Final rule. 

SUMMARY: The Fish and Wildlife Service 

(Service or we) prescribes final lateseason frameworks from which States 

may select season dates, limits, and 

other options for the 2010–11 migratory 

bird hunting seasons. These late seasons 

include most waterfowl seasons, the 

earliest of which commences on 

September 25, 2010. The effect of this 

final rule is to facilitate the States’ 

selection of hunting seasons and to 

further the annual establishment of the 

late-season migratory bird hunting 

regulations. 

DATES: This rule takes effect on 

September 23, 2010. 

ADDRESSES: States should send their 

season selections to: Chief, Division of 

Migratory Bird Management, U.S. Fish 

and Wildlife Service, ms MBSP–4107– 

ARLSQ, 1849 C Street, NW., 

Washington, DC 20240. You may 

inspect comments received on the 

migratory bird hunting regulations 

during normal business hours at the 

Service’s office in room 4107, Arlington 

Square Building, 4501 N. Fairfax Drive, 

Arlington, VA. You may obtain copies 

of referenced reports from the street 

address above, or from the Division of 

Migratory Bird Management’s Web site 

at http://www.fws.gov/migratorybirds/, 

or at http://www.regulations.gov at 

Docket No. FWS–R9–MB–2010–0040. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Robert Blohm, Chief, or Ron W. Kokel, 

Division of Migratory Bird Management, 

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, (703) 

358–1714. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Regulations Schedule for 2010 

On May 13, 2010, we published in the 

Federal Register (75 FR 27144) a 

proposal to amend 50 CFR part 20. The 

proposal provided a background and 

overview of the migratory bird hunting 

regulations process, and addressed the 

establishment of seasons, limits, and 

other regulations for hunting migratory 

game birds under §§ 20.101 through 

20.107, 20.109, and 20.110 of subpart K. 

Major steps in the 2010–11 regulatory 

cycle relating to open public meetings 

and Federal Register notifications were 

also identified in the May 13 proposed 

rule. Further, we explained that all 

sections of subsequent documents 

outlining hunting frameworks and 

guidelines were organized under 

numbered headings. 

On June 10, 2010, we published in the 

Federal Register (75 FR 32872) a second 

document providing supplemental 

proposals for early- and late-season 

migratory bird hunting regulations. The 

June 10 supplement also provided 

detailed information on the 2010–11 

regulatory schedule and announced the 

Service Migratory Bird Regulations 

Committee (SRC) and Flyway Council 

meetings. 

On June 23 and 24, 2010, we held 

open meetings with the Flyway Council 

Consultants at which the participants 

reviewed information on the current 

status of migratory shore and upland 

game birds and developed 

recommendations for the 2010–11 

regulations for these species plus 

regulations for migratory game birds in 

Alaska, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin 

Islands; special September waterfowl 

seasons in designated States; special sea 

duck seasons in the Atlantic Flyway; 

and extended falconry seasons. In 

addition, we reviewed and discussed 

preliminary information on the status of 

waterfowl as it relates to the 

development and selection of the 

regulatory packages for the 2010–11 

regular waterfowl seasons. On July 29, 

2010, we published in the Federal 

Register (75 FR 44856) a third document 

specifically dealing with the proposed 

frameworks for early-season regulations. 

On August 30, 2010, we published in 

the Federal Register (75 FR 52873) a 

final rule which contained final 

frameworks for early migratory bird 

hunting seasons from which wildlife 

conservation agency officials from the 

States, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin 

Islands selected early-season hunting 

dates, hours, areas, and limits. 

Subsequently, on August 31, 2010, we 

published a final rule in the Federal 

Register (75 FR 53226) amending 

subpart K of title 50 CFR part 20 to set 

hunting seasons, hours, areas, and limits 

for early seasons. 

On July 28–29, 2010, we held open 

meetings with the Flyway Council 

Consultants at which the participants 

reviewed the status of waterfowl and 

developed recommendations for the 

2010–11 regulations for these species. 

Proposed hunting regulations were 

discussed for late seasons. On August 

25, 2010, we published in the Federal 

Register (75 FR 52398) the proposed 

frameworks for the 2010–11 late-season 

migratory bird hunting regulations. This 

document establishes final frameworks 

for late-season migratory bird hunting 

regulations for the 2010–11 season. 

There are no substantive changes from 

the August 25 proposed rule. We will 

publish State selections in the Federal 

Register as amendments to §§ 20.101 

through 20.107, and 20.109 of title 50 

CFR part 20. 

Population Status and Harvest 

A brief summary of information on 

the status and harvest of waterfowl 

excerpted from various reports was 

included in the August 25 supplemental 

proposed rule. For more detailed 

information on methodologies and 

results, complete copies of the various 

reports are available at the street address 

indicated under ADDRESSES or from our 

Web site at http://www.fws.gov/ 

migratorybirds/ 

NewsPublicationsReports.html. 

Review of Public Comments and 

Flyway Council Recommendations 

The preliminary proposed 

rulemaking, which appeared in the May 

13, 2010, Federal Register, opened the 

public comment period for migratory 

game bird hunting regulations. The 

supplemental proposed rule, which 

appeared in the June 10, 2010, Federal 

Register, discussed the regulatory 

alternatives for the 2010–11 duck 

hunting season. Late-season comments 

are summarized below and numbered in 

the order used in the May 13 and June 

10 Federal Register documents. We 

have included only the numbered items 

pertaining to late-season issues for 

which we received written comments. 

Consequently, the issues do not follow 

in successive numerical or alphabetical 

order. 

We received recommendations from 

all four Flyway Councils. Some 

recommendations supported 

continuation of last year’s frameworks. 

Due to the comprehensive nature of the 

annual review of the frameworks 

performed by the Councils, support for 

continuation of last year’s frameworks is 

assumed for items for which no 

recommendations were received. 

Council recommendations for changes 

in the frameworks are summarized 

below. Wherever possible, they are 

discussed under headings 

corresponding to the numbered items in 

the May 13 and June 10, 2010, Federal 

Register documents. 

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General 

Council Recommendations: The 

Central Flyway Council recommended 

increasing the possession limit for all 

migratory birds from twice the daily bag 

limit to three times the daily bag limit 

for the 2011–12 hunting seasons. 

The Pacific Flyway Council 

recommended increasing the possession 

limit for ducks and geese from twice the 

daily bag limit to three times the daily 

bag limit, beginning with the 2010–11 

season. 

Written Comments: The Animal Legal 

Defense Fund (ALDF) urged us to 

reduce bag limits and institute a hunting 

moratorium for those species potentially 

affected by the Deepwater Horizon oil 

spill. 

An individual questioned the annual 

variation we see in the population status 

of various species and requested that we 

keep all daily bag limits unchanged 

until several years of trends are evident. 

Service Response: We are generally 

supportive of the Flyways’ interest in 

increasing the possession limits for 

migratory game birds and appreciate the 

recent discussions to frame this 

important issue. However, we believe 

that there are many unanswered 

questions regarding how this interest 

can be fully articulated in a proposal 

that satisfies the harvest management 

community, while fostering the support 

of the law enforcement community and 

informing the general hunting public. 

Further, because of the current schedule 

and processes for establishing migratory 

bird hunting seasons (i.e., early and late 

season processes), any changes to 

current possession limits would not be 

available for the 2010–11 seasons. 

Consequently, we are proposing the 

creation of a cross-agency working 

group, chaired by the Service, and 

comprised of staff from the Service’s 

Migratory Bird Program, State Wildlife 

Agency representatives, and Federal and 

State law enforcement staff, to begin to 

frame a recommendation that fully 

articulates a potential change in 

possession limits. This effort would 

include a description of the current 

status and use of possession limits, 

which populations and/or species/ 

species groups should not be included 

in any proposed modification of 

possession limits, potential law 

enforcement issues, and a reasonable 

timeline for the implementation of any 

such proposed changes. Results of the 

working group efforts would be reported 

at the January SRC meeting in 2011, and 

then forwarded to Flyway Technical 

Committee and Council meetings next 

winter for further review and 

refinement. We would present any 

resulting proposal next spring, with 

possible implementation during the 

2011–12 hunting seasons. 

Regarding the Deepwater Horizon oil 

spill, as we stated in the August 30, 

2010 Federal Register (75 FR 52873) 

and reiterate here, the release of oil into 

the Gulf of Mexico following the 

explosion and sinking of the Deepwater 

Horizon mobile offshore drilling unit 

and impacts to Gulf wetlands and 

wildlife has led to concerns about the 

potential for increased mortality in 

waterfowl and other migratory game 

birds, particularly in the fall and winter 

when local populations increase. This 

potential for increased mortality of 

migrating and wintering game birds has 

led to further questions regarding the 

need to impose precautionary regulatory 

restrictions in anticipation of increased 

spill-related mortality. However, it is 

important to remember that waterfowl 

migration and habitat use are highly 

variable from year to year, not only at 

the Flyway level but at regional and 

local levels, and dependent on any 

number of environmental factors. It is 

also important to recognize that 

populations of many species of North 

American waterfowl naturally undergo 

large population fluctuations in 

response to variability in breeding 

habitat conditions across their range, 

especially within the important prairieparkland region. In fact, during the 

drought-stricken years of the 1980s and 

early 1990s, many North American 

waterfowl species declined to 

population sizes less than one-half those 

recently experienced as a result of 

natural declines in productivity and 

ongoing mortality. Fortunately, 

waterfowl management has a rich and 

successful history of monitoring and 

assessment programs which provide 

annual updates on the status and health 

of waterfowl populations. Programs 

such as the May aerial breeding 

population survey, the continental bird 

banding program, the mid-winter 

waterfowl surveys, and the hunter 

harvest surveys, among others, all 

provide important pieces of information 

on the population status, productivity, 

and distribution of important waterfowl 

species. These data are integral in the 

process of establishing hunting 

regulations for waterfowl and other 

migratory game birds. Through the 

Adaptive Harvest Management process 

we currently utilize to establish 

waterfowl seasons, and other associated 

species-specific harvest strategies, 

monitoring and assessment data are 

explicitly linked to regulatory decision 

making, ensuring that appropriate 

regulatory actions will be taken if 

warranted by changes in continental 

population status. Therefore, from both 

a National and Flyway harvestmanagement perspective, we intend to 

respond to the Deepwater Horizon oil 

spill as we would any other nonhunting factor with potentially 

substantial effects on mortality or 

reproduction (e.g., hurricane, disease, 

prairie drought, habitat loss), by 

monitoring abundance and vital rates of 

waterfowl and other migratory game 

birds and adjusting harvest regulations 

as needed on the basis of existing 

harvest strategies. We believe this is the 

most prudent course of action, and 

further, firmly believe that our existing 

monitoring and assessment programs 

are sufficient to help safeguard the longterm conservation of any potentiallyaffected waterfowl or other migratory 

game birds. 

Recently obtained results of annual 

spring waterfowl population surveys 

indicate that population sizes of most 

duck species and breeding habitat 

conditions are good this year. While we 

believe that regulatory restrictions are 

currently unnecessary, we remain very 

concerned about both the short and 

long-term impacts of the oil spill on 

migratory birds, their habitats, and the 

resources upon which birds depend. 

There remains considerable uncertainty 

regarding the short-term and long-term 

impacts this spill will have on 

waterfowl and other migratory game 

birds that utilize the impacted region 

during all or part of their annual life 

cycle. We have been heavily engaged in 

the immediate response to the BP oil 

spill. The intent of these efforts is to 

document and minimize impacts to 

natural resources including migratory 

birds and their habitats. Large-scale 

efforts to influence bird migration and 

distribution at the flyway-level are 

likely fruitless given the importance of 

weather and photoperiod on the timing 

and speed of bird migrations. It is 

possible that re-distribution of birds at 

smaller scales could help reduce some 

oil exposure. Working with 

conservation partners, we are preparing 

to implement a range of on-the-ground 

habitat conservation or management 

measures near the oil-impact area 

intended to minimize the entrance of oil 

into managed habitats along the Gulf 

and to enhance the availability of food 

resources outside the oil impact area. 

The provision of additional, reliable 

food sources could also help buffer 

against the worst-case scenario of an 

early winter in northern portions of the 

Mississippi and Central Flyways and 

dry habitat conditions in the northern 

Mississippi Alluvial Valley that would 

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result in large wintering waterfowl 

populations along the Gulf Coast. We 

are working with partners to determine 

what portion of these projects should be 

available as ‘‘sanctuary’’ (areas closed to 

hunting) to encourage bird use of these 

areas and minimize redistribution due 

to disturbance. 

Simultaneous with immediate 

response efforts, we are also working 

with partners to assess potential 

pathways for long-term acute and sublethal effects of the BP oil spill on the 

full suite of migratory birds utilizing 

Gulf (or other impacted) habitats during 

some portion of their life cycle. Effects 

may result from direct exposure of birds 

to oil or to the long-term accumulation 

of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons or 

other toxins at levels sufficient to cause 

physiological disorders impacting 

productivity or survival. The intent of 

this assessment is to assist in identifying 

potential mitigation and conservation 

measures as well as long-term 

monitoring and assessment needs for 

migratory birds. 

Regardless of the eventual impact of 

the BP oil spill on migratory game birds, 

we recognize the importance of working 

with the States as well as other 

governmental and non-governmental 

conservation partners to ensure that 

reasonable and science-based measures 

are implemented in the face of the 

ongoing crisis in the Gulf, and that the 

rationale for decisions regarding harvest 

regulations or other actions are clearly 

communicated to the public. We will 

continue to do so. 

Regarding the annual variation we see 

in species’ population status, our longterm objectives continue to include 

providing opportunities to harvest 

portions of certain migratory game bird 

populations and to limit harvests to 

levels compatible with each 

population’s ability to maintain healthy, 

viable numbers. Having taken into 

account the zones of temperature and 

the distribution, abundance, economic 

value, breeding habits, and times and 

lines of flight of migratory birds, we 

believe that the hunting seasons 

provided herein are compatible with the 

current status of migratory bird 

populations and long-term population 

goals. 

1. Ducks 

Categories used to discuss issues 

related to duck harvest management are: 

(A) Harvest Strategy Considerations, (B) 

Regulatory Alternatives, (C) Zones and 

Split Seasons, and (D) Special Seasons/ 

Species Management. The categories 

correspond to previously published 

issues/discussion, and only those 

containing substantial recommendations 

are discussed below. 

A. Harvest Strategy Considerations 

Council Recommendations: The 

Atlantic, Central, and Pacific Flyway 

Councils and the Upper- and LowerRegion Regulations Committees of the 

Mississippi Flyway Council 

recommended the adoption of the 

‘‘liberal’’ regulatory alternative. 

Service Response: We are continuing 

development of an Adaptive Harvest 

Management (AHM) protocol that 

would allow hunting regulations to vary 

among Flyways in a manner that 

recognizes each Flyway’s unique 

breeding-ground derivation of mallards. 

In 2008, we described and adopted a 

protocol for regulatory decision-making 

for the newly defined stock of western 

mallards (73 FR 43290). For the 2010 

hunting season, we continue to believe 

that the prescribed regulatory choice for 

the Pacific Flyway should be based on 

the status of this western mallard 

breeding stock, while the regulatory 

choice for the Mississippi and Central 

Flyways should depend on the status of 

the recently redefined mid-continent 

mallard stock. We also recommend that 

the regulatory choice for the Atlantic 

Flyway continues to depend on the 

status of eastern mallards. 

For the 2010 hunting season, we are 

continuing to consider the same 

regulatory alternatives as those used last 

year. The nature of the ‘‘restrictive,’’ 

‘‘moderate,’’ and ‘‘liberal’’ alternatives 

has remained essentially unchanged 

since 1997, except that extended 

framework dates have been offered in 

the ‘‘moderate’’ and ‘‘liberal’’ regulatory 

alternatives since 2002. Also, in 2003, 

we agreed to place a constraint on 

closed seasons in the western three 

Flyways whenever the midcontinent 

mallard breeding-population size (as 

defined prior to 2008; traditional survey 

area plus Minnesota, Michigan, and 

Wisconsin) was ≥5.5 million. 

Optimal AHM strategies for the 2010– 

11 hunting season were calculated 

using: (1) Harvest-management 

objectives specific to each mallard 

stock; (2) the 2010 regulatory 

alternatives; and (3) current population 

models and associated weights for 

midcontinent, western, and eastern 

mallards. Based on this year’s survey 

results of 8.60 million midcontinent 

mallards (traditional survey area minus 

Alaska plus Minnesota, Wisconsin, and 

Michigan), 3.73 million ponds in Prairie 

Canada, 1,049,000 western mallards 

(443,000 and 606,000 respectively in 

California-Oregon and Alaska), and 

763,000 eastern mallards, the prescribed 

regulatory choice for all four Flyways is 

the ‘‘liberal’’ alternative. 

Therefore, we concur with the 

recommendations of the Atlantic, 

Mississippi, Central, and Pacific Flyway 

Councils regarding selection of the 

‘‘liberal’’ regulatory alternative and 

adopt the ‘‘liberal’’ regulatory 

alternative, as described in the July 29, 

2010, Federal Register. 

C. Zones and Split Seasons 

Council Recommendations: The 

Atlantic, Central, and Pacific Flyway 

Councils recommended that the Service 

allow 3 zones, with 2-way splits in each 

zone, and 4 zones with no splits as 

additional zone/split-season options for 

duck seasons during 2011–15. 

The Upper- and Lower-Region 

Regulations Committees of the 

Mississippi Flyway Council 

recommended that the Service allow 3 

zones with the season split into 2 

segments in each zone, 4 zones with no 

splits, and 2 zones with the season split 

into 3 segments in each zone as 

additional zone/split-season options for 

duck seasons during 2011–15. 

In addition, all four Flyway Councils 

recommended that States with existing 

grandfathered status be allowed to 

retain that status. 

Service Response: In 1990, because of 

concerns about the proliferation of 

zones and split seasons for duck 

hunting, we conducted a cooperative 

review and evaluation of the historical 

use of zone/split options. This review 

did not show that the proliferation of 

these options had increased harvest 

pressure; however, the ability to detect 

the impact of zone/split configurations 

was poor because of unreliable response 

variables, the lack of statistical tests to 

differentiate between real and perceived 

changes, and the absence of adequate 

experimental controls. Consequently, 

we established guidelines to provide a 

framework for controlling the 

proliferation of changes in zone/split 

options. The guidelines identified a 

limited number of zone/split 

configurations that could be used for 

duck hunting and restricted the 

frequency of changes in these 

configurations to 5-year intervals. 

In 1996, we revised the guidelines to 

provide States greater flexibility in 

using their zone/split arrangements. In 

2005, in further response to 

recommendations from the Flyway 

Councils, we considered changes to the 

zone/split guidelines. After our review, 

however, we concluded that the current 

guidelines need not be changed. We 

further stated that the guidelines would 

be used for future open seasons (70 FR 

55667). 

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However, while we continue to 

support the use of guidelines for 

providing a stable framework for 

controlling the number of changes to 

zone/split options, we note the 

consensus position among all the 

Flyway Councils on their proposal and 

are sensitive to the States’ desires for 

flexibility in addressing concerns of the 

hunting public which, in part, provided 

the motivation for this recommendation. 

Furthermore, we remain supportive of 

the recommendations from the 2008 

Future of Waterfowl Management 

Workshop that called for a greater 

emphasis on the effects of management 

actions on the hunting public. Thus, 

later this fall in a subsequent Federal 

Register, we plan to propose that two 

specific additional options be added to 

the existing zone and split season 

criteria governing State selection of 

waterfowl zones and splits. The 

additional options would include four 

zones with no splits and three zones 

with the option for 2-way (2-segment) 

split seasons in one or both zones. 

Otherwise, the criteria and rules 

governing the application of those 

criteria would remain unchanged. 

While we are announcing our 

intention to propose adding the Flyway 

Councils’ recommended two options to 

the existing zone and split season 

guidelines, we are not providing all the 

specifics of our proposal here for several 

reasons. First, because of the sensitive 

timing of the annual regulations 

process, and the necessary abbreviated 

public comment periods, we want to 

allow sufficient time for the Flyway 

Councils, the States, and the public to 

review and comment on our proposal. 

Second, because any new zone and split 

season criteria would not be used until 

the 2011–12 hunting season, we believe 

there is no pressing reason to finalize 

them in the next several months. 

However, we are also sensitive to 

providing the States sufficient time to 

interact with their affected hunting 

publics on any possible changes to 

existing zone and split season 

configurations they may wish to explore 

and to conduct any public processes 

needed to implement such changes. 

Finally, we need additional time to 

explore all the possible implications 

and impacts of such changes in the zone 

and split season guidelines in order to 

provide the public with all the 

necessary information for their 

consideration and comment. 

We also note that existing human 

dimensions data on the relationship of 

harvest regulations, specifically zones 

and splits, to hunter recruitment, 

retention, and/or satisfaction are 

equivocal or lacking. In the face of 

uncertainty over the effects of 

management actions, the waterfowl 

management community has broadly 

endorsed adaptive management and the 

principles of informed decision-making 

as a means of accounting for and 

reducing that uncertainty. The 

necessary elements of informed 

decision-making include: Clearly 

articulated objectives, explicit 

measurable attributes for objectives, 

identification of a suite of potential 

management actions, some means of 

predicting the consequences of 

management actions with respect to 

stated objectives, and, finally, a 

monitoring program to compare 

observations with predictions as a basis 

for learning, policy adaptation, and 

more informed decision-making. 

Currently, none of these elements are 

used to support decision-making that 

involves human dimensions 

considerations. Accordingly, we see this 

as an opportunity to advance an 

informed decision-making framework 

that explicitly considers human 

dimensions issues. 

To that end, we will request that the 

National Flyway Council marshal the 

expertise and resources of the Human 

Dimensions Working Group to develop 

explicit human dimensions objectives 

related to expanding zone and split 

options and a study plan to evaluate the 

effect of the proposed action in 

achieving those objectives. It is our hope 

that the study plan would include 

hypotheses and specific predictions 

about the effect of changing zone/split 

criteria on stated human dimensions 

objectives, and monitoring and 

evaluation methods that would be used 

to test those predictions. 

We believe that insights gained 

through such an evaluation would be 

invaluable in furthering the ongoing 

dialogue regarding fundamental 

objectives of waterfowl management 

and an integrated and coherent decision 

framework for advancing those 

objectives. We will review the objectives 

and study plan at our January 2011 SRC 

meeting. We will consider this plan, 

along with public and Flyway 

comments on the proposed change to 

the zones and splits criteria, along with 

any required National Environmental 

Policy Act (NEPA; 42 U.S.C. 4321 et 

seq.) analysis, in making a final decision 

on a course of action next year. We 

anticipate our final decision sometime 

this winter. 

D. Special Seasons/Species Management 

iii. Black Ducks 

In 2008, U.S. and Canadian waterfowl 

managers developed an interim harvest 

strategy that will be employed by both 

countries until a formal strategy based 

on the principles of AHM is completed. 

We detailed this interim strategy in the 

July 24, 2008, Federal Register (73 FR 

43290). The interim harvest strategy is 

prescriptive, in that it calls for no 

substantive changes in hunting 

regulations unless the black duck 

breeding population, averaged over the 

most recent 3 years, exceeds or falls 

below the long-term average breeding 

population by 15 percent or more. The 

strategy is designed to share the black 

duck harvest equally between the two 

countries; however, recognizing 

incomplete control of harvest through 

regulations, it will allow realized 

harvest in either country to vary 

between 40 and 60 percent. 

Each year in November, Canada 

publishes its proposed migratory bird 

hunting regulations for the upcoming 

hunting season. Thus, last fall the 

Canadian Wildlife Service (CWS) used 

the interim strategy to establish its 

proposed black duck regulations for the 

2010–11 season, based on the most 

current data available at that time: 

Breeding population estimates for 2007, 

2008, and 2009, and an assessment of 

parity based on harvest estimates for the 

2004–08 hunting seasons. Although 

updates of both breeding population 

estimates and harvest estimates are now 

available, the United States will base its 

2010–11 black duck regulations on the 

same data CWS used, to ensure 

comparable application of the strategy. 

The long-term (1998–2007) breeding 

population mean estimate is 717,450 

and the 2007–09 3-year running mean 

estimate is 719,133. Based on these 

estimates, no restriction or liberalization 

of black duck harvest is warranted. The 

average proportion of the harvest during 

the 5-year period, 2004–08, was 0.56 in 

the United States and 0.44 in Canada, 

and this falls within the established 

parity bounds of 40 and 60 percent. 

iv. Canvasbacks 

Council Recommendations: The 

Atlantic, Central, and Pacific Flyway 

Councils and the Upper- and LowerRegion Regulations Committees of the 

Mississippi Flyway Council 

recommended a full season for 

canvasbacks with a 1-bird daily bag 

limit. Season lengths would be 60 days 

in the Atlantic and Mississippi Flyways, 

74 days in the Central Flyway, and 107 

days in the Pacific Flyway. 

The Upper- and Lower-Region 

Regulations Committees of the 

Mississippi Flyway Council also 

recommended that we update the 

harvest estimates used to predict the 

canvasback harvest under the ‘‘liberal’’ 

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AHM regulatory alternative, as used in 

the existing canvasback harvest strategy, 

and utilize the most recent 5-year 

average U.S. canvasback harvest plus a 

constant accounting for the most recent 

available Canadian harvest estimates. 

They further recommended that our 

updates include canvasback harvest 

estimates for both full (1-bird bag limit) 

and partial seasons. 

Service Response: Since 1994, we 

have followed a canvasback harvest 

strategy that if canvasback population 

status and production are sufficient to 

permit a harvest of one canvasback per 

day nationwide for the entire length of 

the regular duck season, while still 

attaining a projected spring population 

objective of 500,000 birds, the season on 

canvasbacks should be opened. A 

partial season would be permitted if the 

estimated allowable harvest was within 

the projected harvest for a shortened 

season. If neither of these conditions 

can be met, the harvest strategy calls for 

a closed season on canvasbacks 

nationwide. In 2008 (73 FR 43290), we 

announced our decision to modify the 

Canvasback Harvest Strategy to 

incorporate the option for a 2-bird daily 

bag limit for canvasbacks when the 

predicted breeding population the 

subsequent year exceeds 725,000 birds. 

This year’s spring survey resulted in 

an estimate of 585,000 canvasbacks. 

This was 12 percent below the 2009 

estimate of 662,000 canvasbacks and 3 

percent above the 1955–2009 average. 

The estimate of ponds in Prairie Canada 

was 3.7 million, which was 5 percent 

above last year and 9 percent above the 

long-term average. The canvasback 

harvest strategy predicts a 2011 

canvasback population of 521,000 birds 

under a ‘‘liberal’’ duck season with a 1- 

bird daily bag limit and 485,000 with a 

2-bird daily bag limit. Because the 

predicted 2011 population under the 1- 

bird daily bag limit is greater than 

500,000, while the prediction under the 

2-bird daily bag limit is less than 

725,000, the canvasback harvest strategy 

stipulates a full canvasback season with 

a 1-bird daily bag limit for the upcoming 

season. 

With regard to the Mississippi Flyway 

Council’s request to update estimates 

used to predict canvasback harvest in 

the Service’s harvest strategy, we agree 

that this feature of the canvasback 

strategy should be updated. Canvasback 

harvest estimates from recent hunting 

seasons are now available to be used in 

an update of the strategy. We hope to 

complete the update of the canvasback 

strategy in time for use in the 2011–12 

hunting season, and will provide an 

update on this work at the next SRC 

meeting in January. 

v. Pintails 

Council Recommendations: The 

Atlantic, Central, and Pacific Flyway 

Councils and the Upper- and LowerRegion Regulations Committees of the 

Mississippi Flyway Council 

recommended a full season for pintails, 

consisting of a 2-bird daily bag limit 

with a 60-day season in the Atlantic and 

Mississippi Flyways, a 74-day season in 

the Central Flyway, and a 107-day 

season in the Pacific Flyway. 

Service Response: The current derived 

pintail harvest strategy was adopted by 

the Service and Flyway Councils in 

2010 (75 FR 44856). For this year, 

optimal regulatory strategies were 

calculated with: (1) An objective of 

maximizing long-term cumulative 

harvest, including a closed-season 

constraint of 1.75 million birds, (2) the 

regulatory alternatives and associated 

predicted harvest, and (3) current 

population models and their relative 

weights. Based on this year’s survey 

results of 3.5 million pintails and a 

mean latitude of 54.4 degrees (latitude 

corrected breeding population of 4.30 

million pintails), the optimal regulatory 

choice for all four Flyways is the 

‘‘liberal’’ alternative with a 2-bird daily 

bag limit. 

vi. Scaup 

Council Recommendations: The 

Atlantic, Central, and Pacific Flyway 

Councils and the Upper- and LowerRegion Regulations Committees of the 

Mississippi Flyway Council 

recommended use of the ‘‘moderate’’ 

regulation package, consisting of a 60- 

day season with a 2-bird daily bag in the 

Atlantic and Mississippi Flyways, a 74- 

day season with a 2-bird daily bag limit 

in the Central Flyway, and an 86-day 

season with a 3-bird daily bag limit in 

the Pacific Flyway. 

Service Response: In 2008, we 

adopted and implemented a new scaup 

harvest strategy (73 FR 43290 and 73 FR 

51124) with initial ‘‘restrictive,’’ 

‘‘moderate,’’ and ‘‘liberal’’ regulatory 

packages adopted for each Flyway. 

Further opportunity to revise these 

packages was afforded prior to the 

2009–10 season and modifications by 

the Mississippi and Central Flyway 

Councils were endorsed by the Service 

in July 2009 (74 FR 36870). These 

packages will remain in effect for at 

least 3 years prior to their re-evaluation. 

The 2010 breeding population 

estimate for scaup is 4.24 million, up 2 

percent from, but similar to, the 2009 

estimate of 4.17 million. Total estimated 

scaup harvest for the 2009–10 season 

was 277,000 birds. Based on updated 

model parameter estimates, the optimal 

regulatory choice for scaup is the 

‘‘moderate’’ package recommended by 

the Councils in all four Flyways. 

vii. Mottled Ducks 

Written Comments: The ALDF stated 

that the combination of liberal bag 

limits, documented low survivorship, 

low reproductive rates, ongoing habitat 

loss, and observed population declines 

indicate that hunting for mottled ducks 

at current levels is probably not 

sustainable, especially considering the 

impacts of habitat destruction and direct 

mortality from exposure to oil from the 

Deepwater Horizon blowout. They 

urged us not to allow any harvest of 

mottled ducks until the short-term and 

long-term impacts of the Deepwater 

Horizon oil spill are determined. 

Service Response: For many years, we 

have expressed concern about the longterm status of mottled ducks, especially 

the Western Gulf Coast Population. Last 

year, after consideration of long-term 

trends for this population, recent 

harvest levels, and breeding habitat 

conditions, we believed that a reduction 

in harvest levels for this population was 

necessary (September 24, 2009 Federal 

Register, 74 FR 48822). Thus, in the 

Mississippi Flyway, we reduced the 

daily bag limit of mottled ducks to one 

bird (projected to result in a harvest 

reduction of about 20 percent) and in 

the Central Flyway delayed the opening 

of the mottled duck season (expected to 

result in a similar harvest reduction). 

We stated then that we believe that this 

level of reduction was necessary across 

the entire range of the Western Gulf 

Coast Population. Further, we stated 

that an assessment should be conducted 

of whether desired reductions in harvest 

are achieved as a result of the harvest 

restrictions, and that the status of 

mottled ducks and their breeding 

habitat should be closely monitored and 

a determination made whether further 

restrictions are warranted. Should 

additional restrictions be needed, we 

will consider all regulatory options, 

including the potential for a closed 

season. We see no reason to deviate 

from this course of action. 

4. Canada Geese 

B. Regular Seasons 

Council Recommendations: The 

Atlantic Flyway Council recommended 

a 107-day regular Canada goose hunting 

season, between the Saturday nearest 

September 24 and March 10, with a 

daily bag limit of 8 geese, in the Western 

Long Island Resident Population (RP) 

area of New York. The season could be 

split into three segments. The Council 

recommends this framework in lieu of 

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the current 30-day September season 

and 80-day regular season (between 

October 1 and February 15) offered for 

that area. 

The Upper- and Lower-Region 

Regulations Committees of the 

Mississippi Flyway Council 

recommended several changes in goose 

frameworks. In Minnesota and Missouri, 

the Committees recommended an 85- 

day Canada goose season with a daily 

bag limit of 3 geese. In Iowa, they 

recommend a 107-day Canada goose 

season with a daily bag limit of 3 geese. 

In Arkansas, they recommended an 82- 

day Canada goose season in the 

Northwest Zone, and a 72-day season in 

the remainder of the State. The daily bag 

limit would be 2 Canada geese. All the 

recommended changes in Canada goose 

season lengths and bag limits, except in 

Arkansas, were made in response to 

changes in the Eastern Prairie 

Population (EPP) harvest strategy, 

which the Council approved this 

summer. 

The Central Flyway Council 

recommended two changes to Canada 

goose frameworks. In the east-tier States, 

the Council recommended increasing 

the Canada goose daily bag limit from 3 

to 5 geese. In the west-tier States of 

Colorado and Texas, the Council 

recommended raising the dark goose 

daily bag limit from 4 to 5 geese in the 

aggregate, with the exception of the 

Western Goose Zone of Texas, where no 

more than 1 could be a white-fronted 

goose (no change). 

The Pacific Flyway Council 

recommended several changes to dark 

goose season frameworks. In Oregon’s 

Northwest (NW) Permit Goose Zone, the 

Council recommended extending the 

framework ending date for dark geese 

from the Sunday nearest March 1 to 

March 10. In the Tillamook County 

Management Area of Oregon’s NW 

Permit Goose Zone, they recommended 

increasing the dark goose daily bag limit 

from 2 to 3, with not more than 2 

cackling or Aleutian geese per day. In 

California’s Balance-of-State Zone, they 

recommended increasing the dark goose 

season framework from 100 to 107 days. 

Service Response: We support the 

Atlantic Flyway’s recommendation 

regarding season framework changes to 

the Western Long Island RP area of New 

York. We recognize that resident Canada 

geese are causing serious conflicts with 

human interests and activities in 

western Long Island, including threats 

to public health and safety (including 

airport safety) and property damage 

concerns. Currently, the State of New 

York (New York) employs a variety of 

control methods in this area, but 

resident Canada geese numbers remain 

abundant in that area. Further, the 

Council notes that negligible harvest of 

geese has occurred during September 

seasons in western Long Island, 

primarily due to most of the birds 

remaining in areas where hunting is not 

allowed or not feasible, and hunters 

wanting to avoid conflicts with other 

outdoor activities at that time of year. 

However, New York believes, and we 

agree, that opportunities and interest in 

hunting for resident geese in this area 

are greatest in mid to late winter, when 

geese are most likely to be forced out of 

inland ponds and lakes to more hunteraccessible coastal areas, and potential 

conflicts with other outdoor activities 

would be lowest. Hunting and harvest of 

RP geese in late winter would help 

provide some relief and control of geese 

that are most likely to nest and 

contribute to local population problems 

and conflicts. Since this area is already 

classified as an RP area, we believe that 

the potential harvest of Atlantic 

Population (AP) or North Atlantic 

Population (NAP) geese would be 

negligible. 

In the Mississippi Flyway, we support 

the recommended changes to season 

frameworks in Minnesota, Missouri, 

Iowa, and Arkansas. The changes in 

Canada goose season lengths and bag 

limits, except in Arkansas, were made 

in response to changes in the EPP 

harvest strategy recently approved by 

the Council. 

Regarding the Central Flyway 

Council’s recommendation to increase 

the dark goose daily bag limit in the 

west-tier States of Colorado and Texas 

from 4 to 5 geese, we concur. Currently, 

all other west-tier States have a 5 dark 

goose daily bag limit and the Council’s 

proposed modification is in the relevant 

goose management plans. Further, the 

2008–10 averages of midwinter counts 

for Hi-Line Population Canada geese 

(244,107) and Short Grass Prairie 

Population (SGP) Canada geese 

(241,132), found mainly in the west tier, 

remain well above population objective 

levels (>80,000 and 150,000–200,000, 

respectively). 

However, we do not support the 

Central Flyway’s request to increase the 

dark goose daily bag limit in the easttier States from 3 to 5 geese. While we 

agree that the Flyway’s proposed bag 

limit increase would likely result in an 

increased harvest of resident Canada 

geese (Great Plains Population), there 

are other Canada goose populations that 

would also be subjected to additional 

harvest pressure, including the Tall 

Grass Prairie (TGP), Western Prairie 

(WP), and EPP populations. One of our 

primary concerns with the proposed 

increase relates to our current collective 

inability to adequately monitor the 

population status and harvest of all 

these various populations. We currently 

have no surveys that provide reliable 

estimates of population abundance for 

Great Plains resident geese in Kansas, 

Nebraska, Oklahoma, or Texas. 

Population abundance indices for the 

TGP (Richardson’s Canada geese) are 

based on midwinter surveys that 

include unknown proportions of other 

Canada goose populations and yield 

highly variable estimates. Additionally, 

there is little information available 

about the abundance or harvest of WP 

geese. Without having this important 

information, we cannot reliably 

determine appropriate harvest levels or 

harvest regulations for the resident 

Canada goose population and meet 

management objectives for all the 

populations likely affected by the 

proposal. Furthermore, this 

liberalization would result in markedly 

disparate harvest regulations between 

the Central and Mississippi Flyways, 

which share the TGP and EPP 

populations. We believe that more 

coordination with the Mississippi 

Flyway, which shares the TGP with the 

Central Flyway, should be pursued prior 

to the proposed regulatory change. This 

coordination should include work 

toward a revision of the management 

plan for the TGP population, and 

improved abundance and harvest 

monitoring for all populations of 

Canada geese that would be impacted by 

this proposal. 

Lastly, we encourage the States in the 

Central Flyway to fully utilize available 

tools provided to manage resident 

Canada geese, including special Canada 

goose hunting seasons, take of geese in 

August using management take, other 

control and depredation orders 

specifically relevant to resident Canada 

geese, and Statewide special Canada 

goose permits, to reduce the growth of 

resident Canada goose populations. 

We do agree with the Pacific Flyway 

Council’s recommendation to extend the 

framework closing date in Oregon’s NW 

Permit Goose Zone to March 10. This 

change would allow Oregon’s NW 

Permit Goose season to close 7–14 days 

later than currently allowed and is 

intended to help alleviate agricultural 

depredations caused by wintering geese 

in this area during this slightly later 

period when the Council believes that 

grazing by geese may be especially 

detrimental to crops. The Council does 

not expect the change to measurably 

increase harvest since goose harvest per 

week, as measured at the mandatory 

check stations in this zone, remains 

relatively constant during the season. 

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Similarly, we also agree with the 

Council’s recommendation to increase 

the dark goose daily bag limit in the 

Tillamook County Management Area of 

Oregon’s NW Permit Goose Zone from 2 

to 3, with not more than 2 cackling or 

Aleutian Canada geese per day. This 

change is expected to have only a 

negligible impact on the harvest level of 

migrant Canada geese and an even 

smaller effect on the harvest of cackling 

and Aleutian Canada geese since it 

maintains the current NW Permit Zone 

restriction regarding cackling and 

Aleutian Canada geese. Harvest data 

collected during the first 3 seasons in 

which goose hunting was allowed in 

Tillamook County since 1982 indicates 

that the overall goose harvest has 

remained moderate, with 238, 297, and 

285 geese taken during the last three 

seasons, respectively. The vast majority 

of these birds have been classified as 

either western Canada geese (52 

percent) or lesser Canada geese (25 

percent). It is the Council’s and our 

belief that agricultural depredations in 

this area will likely be reduced due to 

the direct removal of some additional 

geese and the increased hazing effect of 

additional hunting. 

Lastly, we agree with the minor 

increase in the dark season framework 

in California’s Balance-of-State Zone, 

from 100 to 107 days. While most of 

California’s Balance-of-State Zone is 

outside the historic nesting range of 

Canada geese, Canada goose breeding 

populations there have grown 

significantly in the last 20 years, causing 

increasing conflicts with humans. Since 

1984, daily bag limits for large Canada 

geese have increased from 2 to 6, and 

season lengths have increased from 79 

days to 100 days. The Council states 

that increasing the framework season 

length in this zone will allow for 

California to use up to 5 days in an early 

October Canada goose season—an 

option preferred over a September 

season because of typically hot 

September weather in the Central 

Valley. 

C. Special Late Seasons 

Council Recommendations: The 

Upper- and Lower-Region Regulations 

Committees of the Mississippi Flyway 

Council recommended changing 

Indiana’s experimental late Canada 

goose season (February 1–15) from 

experimental to operational in the 

following 30 counties: Adams, Allen, 

Boone, Clay, De Kalb, Elkhart, Greene, 

Hamilton, Hancock, Hendricks, 

Huntington, Johnson, Kosciusko, La 

Porte, Lagrange, Madison, Marion, 

Marshall, Morgan, Noble, Parke, St. 

Joseph, Shelby, Steuben, Starke, 

Sullivan, Vermillion, Vigo, Wells, and 

Whitley. 

Service Response: In large part, we 

concur with the Mississippi Flyway 

Council’s recommendation to grant 

operational status for Indiana’s late 

Canada goose season. However, results 

from the experiment indicate that the 

percentage of migrant geese harvested in 

the 6-county region surrounding Terre 

Haute exceeds the 20 percent threshold 

identified in the criteria for special late 

Canada goose seasons. When we 

developed the criteria for special late 

Canada goose seasons, we indicated that 

States must agree to close any areas to 

hunting where evidence from band 

recoveries or other sources indicates 

unacceptable harvest of non-target 

populations during the special season 

(60 FR 45020). Because the Terre Haute 

region does not meet established 

criteria, we cannot grant operational 

status for these 6 counties (Clay, Greene, 

Parke, Sullivan, Vermillion, and Vigo 

Counties). For the remaining 24 of the 

30 counties involved in the experiment, 

we do agree with the Mississippi 

Flyway Council’s recommendation and 

grant them operational status. 

We recognize that the recently 

published Draft Supplemental 

Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) 

on migratory bird hunting contains a 

proposal to remove evaluation criteria 

for special Canada goose seasons (75 FR 

39577). In light of this proposal, we 

would be amenable to allowing the 

special late season to continue in the 

Terre Haute region on an experimental 

basis until the status of evaluation 

criteria for such seasons has been 

resolved. In the interim, we will require 

the same intensity of data collection in 

the Terre Haute region with regard to 

morphometric measurements on 

harvested birds, and analysis of bandrecovery and harvest data. 

5. White-Fronted Geese 

Council Recommendations: The 

Pacific Flyway Council recommended 

increasing the daily bag limit for whitefronted geese from 2 to 4 for hunting 

days occurring after the last Sunday in 

January in the Klamath County Zone of 

Oregon. They also made several other 

dark goose recommendations affecting 

white-fronted geese (see 4. Canada 

Geese, B. Regular Seasons for further 

discussion). 

Service Response: Specific to whitefronted geese, we concur with the 

Pacific Flyway Council’s recommended 

changes in the Klamath County Zone of 

Oregon. The Pacific Population of 

greater white-fronted geese is currently 

above population goal and the index for 

the population increased substantially 

this year. The 3-year average is now 

greater than twice the management goal 

and we expect excellent production this 

summer. The Council notes that 

agricultural depredations caused by 

spring staging geese in the Klamath 

Basin continue to be a serious issue and 

believes that increasing the daily bag 

limits in Oregon’s Klamath Zone will 

help contribute to addressing this 

conflict. We note that potential concerns 

over Tule geese were addressed by the 

Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife 

and California Department of Fish and 

Game, in cooperation with the Service, 

completing three seasons of harvest 

monitoring and flock distribution 

monitoring during the late-winter in 

Oregon’s Klamath County Zone. 

Monitoring indicated that very few 

harvested white-fronted geese (as 

measured by biologists) were 

determined to be Tule geese from 

morphological measurements (4 of 329 

geese). Additionally, monitoring of 

radio-marked Tule geese has shown 

their preference for habitats in the 

California portion of the Klamath Basin 

where they are unavailable for harvest 

in Oregon. The harvest of Canada geese 

after the last Sunday in January would 

continue to be prohibited under the 

change. 

6. Brant 

Council Recommendations: The 

Atlantic Flyway Council recommended 

continuation of a 50-day season with a 

2-bird daily bag limit for Atlantic brant. 

Service Response: We concur with the 

Atlantic Flyway Council’s 

recommendation. The 2010 Mid-Winter 

Index (MWI) for Atlantic brant was 

139,400, about 8 percent lower than the 

2009 estimate of 151,300. However, 

conditions appeared to be favorable in 

most of the breeding range this spring; 

thus, average to above average brant 

production is expected this year. The 

Atlantic Flyway Management Plan calls 

for a 50-day season and a 2-bird daily 

bag limit at the current mid-winter 

index, and we support the season length 

and bag limit prescribed by the 

management plan. 

7. Snow and Ross’s (Light) Geese 

Council Recommendations: The 

Atlantic Flyway Council recommended 

a 107-day regular season with a 25-bird 

daily bag limit and no possession limit 

for light geese in the Atlantic Flyway. 

The Pacific Flyway Council made 

several recommendations concerning 

light geese. In the Klamath County Zone 

of Oregon, the Council recommended 

increasing the daily bag limit for light 

geese from 4 to 6 for hunting days 

occurring after the last Sunday in 

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January. The Council also recommended 

in Oregon’s newly created Malheur 

County Zone, increasing the daily bag 

limit for light geese from 6 to 10 and 

specifying that all hunt days occurring 

after the last Sunday in January should 

be concurrent with Idaho’s Zone 2. 

Service Response: We support the 

Atlantic Flyway Council’s 

recommendation to increase the daily 

bag limit for light geese from 15 to 25. 

Greater snow geese are above both the 

Atlantic Flyway and North American 

Waterfowl Management Plan desired 

population objectives. Additionally, we 

have declared light geese (including 

greater snow geese) an overabundant 

species and implemented special 

Conservation Order measures to 

increase the take of light geese (73 FR 

65926 and 73 FR 65954). Given their 

current population status and our desire 

to reduce populations, we believe that 

there is no reason to constrain the daily 

bag limit to 15 birds and believe that 

this change may help contribute to 

higher light goose harvest during regular 

hunting seasons. 

In Oregon, we agree with the Pacific 

Flyway Council’s light goose proposals 

intended to assist landowners with 

depredation issues, reduce goose 

numbers, and enhance goose hazing 

effects. Taken together, these proposals 

would allow Oregon the flexibility to 

hold differential seasons for light geese 

in the newly proposed Malheur County 

Zone and the modified Harney and Lake 

County Zone, and institute a late-winter 

light goose season in the Malheur 

County Zone to help address 

agricultural depredations caused by 

light geese. By requiring that the Oregon 

hunt coincide with the current latewinter light goose season in adjacent 

areas of Idaho, the Council believes that 

this should help alleviate agricultural 

depredations caused by staging light 

geese in adjacent areas of Oregon and 

Idaho by not allowing geese to simply 

move into closed areas. We agree. While 

past light goose harvest has historically 

been minimal in this area, the Council 

expects their proposals to significantly 

increase light goose harvest in Malheur 

County. They note that during the late 

winter and early spring, light geese are 

abundant in portions of Malheur 

County, especially near agricultural 

lands in proximity to the Snake River, 

as the geese stage during migration en 

route to breeding areas in the Arctic. We 

note that all 3 populations of light geese 

in the Pacific Flyway are currently 

above their respective population goals. 

NEPA Consideration 

NEPA considerations are covered by 

the programmatic document ‘‘Final 

Supplemental Environmental Impact 

Statement: Issuance of Annual 

Regulations Permitting the Sport 

Hunting of Migratory Birds (FSES 88– 

14),’’ filed with the Environmental 

Protection Agency on June 9, 1988. We 

published a notice of availability in the 

Federal Register on June 16, 1988 (53 

FR 22582). We published our Record of 

Decision on August 18, 1988 (53 FR 

31341). In addition, an August 1985 

environmental assessment entitled 

‘‘Guidelines for Migratory Bird Hunting 

Regulations on Federal Indian 

Reservations and Ceded Lands’’ is 

available from the address indicated 

under the caption ADDRESSES. 

In a notice published in the 

September 8, 2005, Federal Register (70 

FR 53376), we announced our intent to 

develop a new Supplemental 

Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) 

for the migratory bird hunting program. 

Public scoping meetings were held in 

the spring of 2006, as detailed in a 

March 9, 2006, Federal Register (71 FR 

12216). We released the draft SEIS on 

July 9, 2010 (75 FR 39577). The draft 

SEIS is available by either writing to the 

address indicated under ADDRESSES or 

by viewing our Web site at http:// 

www.fws.gov/migratorybirds. 

Endangered Species Act Consideration 

Section 7 of the Endangered Species 

Act, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1531–1543; 

87 Stat. 884), provides that, ‘‘The 

Secretary shall review other programs 

administered by him and utilize such 

programs in furtherance of the purposes 

of this Act’’ (and) shall ‘‘insure that any 

action authorized, funded, or carried out 

* * * is not likely to jeopardize the 

continued existence of any endangered 

species or threatened species or result in 

the destruction or adverse modification 

of [critical] habitat. * * *.’’ 

Consequently, we conducted formal 

consultations to ensure that actions 

resulting from these regulations would 

not likely jeopardize the continued 

existence of endangered or threatened 

species or result in the destruction or 

adverse modification of their critical 

habitat. Findings from these 

consultations are included in a 

biological opinion, which concluded 

that the regulations are not likely to 

jeopardize the continued existence of 

any endangered or threatened species. 

Additionally, these findings may have 

caused modification of some regulatory 

measures previously proposed, and the 

final frameworks reflect any such 

modifications. Our biological opinions 

resulting from this section 7 

consultation are public documents 

available for public inspection at the 

address indicated under ADDRESSES. 

Executive Order 12866 

The Office of Management and Budget 

has determined that this rule is 

significant and has reviewed this rule 

under Executive Order 12866. OMB 

bases its determination of regulatory 

significance upon the following four 

criteria: (a) Whether the rule will have 

an annual effect of $100 million or more 

on the economy or adversely affect an 

economic sector, productivity, jobs, the 

environment, or other units of the 

government; (b) Whether the rule will 

create inconsistencies with other 

Federal agencies’ actions; (c) Whether 

the rule will materially affect 

entitlements, grants, user fees, loan 

programs, or the rights and obligations 

of their recipients; and (d) Whether the 

rule raises novel legal or policy issues. 

An economic analysis was prepared 

for the 2008–09 season. This analysis 

was based on data from the 2006 

National Hunting and Fishing Survey, 

the most recent year for which data are 

available (see discussion in Regulatory 

Flexibility Act section below). This 

analysis estimated consumer surplus for 

three alternatives for duck hunting 

(estimates for other species are not 

quantified due to lack of data). The 

alternatives are (1) Issue restrictive 

regulations allowing fewer days than 

those issued during the 2007–08 season, 

(2) Issue moderate regulations allowing 

more days than those in alternative 1, 

and (3) Issue liberal regulations 

identical to the regulations in the 2007– 

08 season. For the 2008–09 season, we 

chose alternative 3, with an estimated 

consumer surplus across all flyways of 

$205–$270 million. Based on 

population status information, there 

were no significant changes to the 

season frameworks for the 2010–11 

season, and as such, we again 

considered these three alternatives. For 

these reasons, we have not conducted a 

new economic analysis, but the 2008–09 

analysis is part of the record for this rule 

and is available at http://www.fws.gov/ 

migratorybirds/ 

NewReportsPublications/ 

SpecialTopics/ 

SpecialTopics.html#HuntingRegs or at 

http://www.regulations.gov at Docket 

No. FWS–R9–MB–2010–0040. 

Regulatory Flexibility Act 

The regulations have a significant 

economic impact on substantial 

numbers of small entities under the 

Regulatory Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C. 601 

et seq.). We analyzed the economic 

impacts of the annual hunting 

regulations on small business entities in 

detail as part of the 1981 cost-benefit 

analysis. This analysis was revised 

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annually from 1990–95. In 1995, the 

Service issued a Small Entity Flexibility 

Analysis (Analysis), which was 

subsequently updated in 1996, 1998, 

2004, and 2008. The primary source of 

information about hunter expenditures 

for migratory game bird hunting is the 

National Hunting and Fishing Survey, 

which is conducted at 5-year intervals. 

The 2008 Analysis was based on the 

2006 National Hunting and Fishing 

Survey and the U.S. Department of 

Commerce’s County Business Patterns, 

from which it was estimated that 

migratory bird hunters would spend 

approximately $1.2 billion at small 

businesses in 2008. Copies of the 

Analysis are available upon request 

from the Division of Migratory Bird 

Management (see ADDRESSES) or from 

our Web site at http://www.fws.gov/ 

migratorybirds/ 

NewReportsPublications/ 

SpecialTopics/ 

SpecialTopics.html#HuntingRegs or at 

http://www.regulations.gov at Docket 

No. FWS–R9–MB–2010–0040. 

Small Business Regulatory Enforcement 

Fairness Act 

This rule is a major rule under 5 

U.S.C. 804(2), the Small Business 

Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act. 

For the reasons outlined above, this rule 

has an annual effect on the economy of 

$100 million or more. However, because 

this rule establishes hunting seasons, we 

do not plan to defer the effective date 

under the exemption contained in 5 

U.S.C. 808(1). 

Paperwork Reduction Act 

We examined these regulations under 

the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). The various 

recordkeeping and reporting 

requirements imposed under regulations 

established in 50 CFR part 20, subpart 

K, are utilized in the formulation of 

migratory game bird hunting 

regulations. Specifically, OMB has 

approved the information collection 

requirements of our Migratory Bird 

Surveys and assigned control number 

1018–0023 (expires 2/28/2011). This 

information is used to provide a 

sampling frame for voluntary national 

surveys to improve our harvest 

estimates for all migratory game birds in 

order to better manage these 

populations. A Federal agency may not 

conduct or sponsor and a person is not 

required to respond to a collection of 

information unless it displays a 

currently valid OMB control number. 

Unfunded Mandates Reform Act 

We have determined and certify, in 

compliance with the requirements of the 

Unfunded Mandates Reform Act, 2 

U.S.C. 1502 et seq., that this rulemaking 

will not impose a cost of $100 million 

or more in any given year on local or 

State government or private entities. 

Therefore, this rule is not a ‘‘significant 

regulatory action’’ under the Unfunded 

Mandates Reform Act. 

Civil Justice Reform—Executive Order 

12988 

The Department has determined that 

this rule will not unduly burden the 

judicial system and that it meets the 

requirements of sections 3(a) and 3(b)(2) 

of Executive Order 12988. 

Takings Implication Assessment 

In accordance with Executive Order 

12630, this rule, authorized by the 

Migratory Bird Treaty Act, does not 

have significant takings implications 

and does not affect any constitutionally 

protected property rights. This rule will 

not result in the physical occupancy of 

property, the physical invasion of 

property, or the regulatory taking of any 

property. In fact, these rules allow 

hunters to exercise otherwise 

unavailable privileges and, therefore, 

reduce restrictions on the use of private 

and public property. 

Energy Effects—Executive Order 13211 

Executive Order 13211 requires 

agencies to prepare Statements of 

Energy Effects when undertaking certain 

actions. While this rule is a significant 

regulatory action under Executive Order 

12866, it is not expected to adversely 

affect energy supplies, distribution, or 

use. Therefore, this action is not a 

significant energy action and no 

Statement of Energy Effects is required. 

Government-to-Government 

Relationship With Tribes 

In accordance with the President’s 

memorandum of April 29, 1994, 

‘‘Government-to-Government Relations 

with Native American Tribal 

Governments’’ (59 FR 22951), Executive 

Order 13175, and 512 DM 2, we have 

evaluated possible effects on Federally 

recognized Indian tribes and have 

determined that there are no effects on 

Indian trust resources. However, in the 

May 13 Federal Register, we solicited 

proposals for special migratory bird 

hunting regulations for certain Tribes on 

Federal Indian reservations, offreservation trust lands, and ceded lands 

for the 2010–11 migratory bird hunting 

season. The resulting proposals were 

contained in a separate proposed rule 

(75 FR 47682). By virtue of these 

actions, we have consulted with Tribes 

affected by this rule. 

Federalism Effects 

Due to the migratory nature of certain 

species of birds, the Federal 

Government has been given 

responsibility over these species by the 

Migratory Bird Treaty Act. We annually 

prescribe frameworks from which the 

States make selections regarding the 

hunting of migratory birds, and we 

employ guidelines to establish special 

regulations on Federal Indian 

reservations and ceded lands. This 

process preserves the ability of the 

States and Tribes to determine which 

seasons meet their individual needs. 

Any State or Indian Tribe may be more 

restrictive than the Federal frameworks 

at any time. The frameworks are 

developed in a cooperative process with 

the States and the Flyway Councils. 

This process allows States to participate 

in the development of frameworks from 

which they will make selections, 

thereby having an influence on their 

own regulations. These rules do not 

have a substantial direct effect on fiscal 

capacity, change the roles or 

responsibilities of Federal or State 

governments, or intrude on State policy 

or administration. Therefore, in 

accordance with Executive Order 13132, 

these regulations do not have significant 

federalism effects and do not have 

sufficient federalism implications to 

warrant the preparation of a Federalism 

Assessment. 

Regulations Promulgation 

The rulemaking process for migratory 

game bird hunting must, by its nature, 

operate under severe time constraints. 

However, we intend that the public be 

given the greatest possible opportunity 

to comment. Thus, when the 

preliminary proposed rulemaking was 

published, we established what we 

believed were the longest periods 

possible for public comment. In doing 

this, we recognized that when the 

comment period closed, time would be 

of the essence. That is, if there were a 

delay in the effective date of these 

regulations after this final rulemaking, 

States would have insufficient time to 

select season dates and limits; to 

communicate those selections to us; and 

to establish and publicize the necessary 

regulations and procedures to 

implement their decisions. We therefore 

find that ‘‘good cause’’ exists, within the 

terms of 5 U.S.C. 553(d)(3) of the 

Administrative Procedure Act, and 

these frameworks will, therefore, take 

effect immediately upon publication. 

Therefore, under authority of the 

Migratory Bird Treaty Act (July 3, 1918), 

as amended (16 U.S.C. 703–711), we 

prescribe final frameworks setting forth 

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the species to be hunted, the daily bag 

and possession limits, the shooting 

hours, the season lengths, the earliest 

opening and latest closing season dates, 

and hunting areas, from which State 

conservation agency officials will select 

hunting season dates and other options. 

Upon receipt of season selections from 

these officials, we will publish a final 

rulemaking amending 50 CFR part 20 to 

reflect seasons, limits, and shooting 

hours for the conterminous United 

States for the 2010–11 season. 

List of Subjects in 50 CFR Part 20 

Exports, Hunting, Imports, Reporting 

and recordkeeping requirements, 

Transportation, Wildlife. 

Dated: September 16, 2010. 

Thomas L. Strickland, 

Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and 

Parks. 

PART 20—[AMENDED] 

■ The rules that eventually will be 

promulgated for the 2010–11 hunting 

season are authorized under 16 U.S.C. 

703–712 and 16 U.S.C. 742 a–j. 

Final Regulations Frameworks for 

2010–11 Late Hunting Seasons on 

Certain Migratory Game Birds 

Pursuant to the Migratory Bird Treaty 

Act and delegated authorities, the 

Department has approved the following 

frameworks for season lengths, shooting 

hours, bag and possession limits, and 

outside dates within which States may 

select seasons for hunting waterfowl 

and coots between the dates of 

September 1, 2010, and March 10, 2011. 

General 

Dates: All outside dates noted below 

are inclusive. 

Shooting and Hawking (taking by 

falconry) Hours: Unless otherwise 

specified, from one-half hour before 

sunrise to sunset daily. 

Possession Limits: Unless otherwise 

specified, possession limits are twice 

the daily bag limit. 

Flyways and Management Units 

Waterfowl Flyways 

Atlantic Flyway—includes 

Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, 

Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New 

Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, 

North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode 

Island, South Carolina, Vermont, 

Virginia, and West Virginia. 

Mississippi Flyway—includes 

Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, 

Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, 

Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, 

Tennessee, and Wisconsin. 

Central Flyway—includes Colorado 

(east of the Continental Divide), Kansas, 

Montana (Counties of Blaine, Carbon, 

Fergus, Judith Basin, Stillwater, 

Sweetgrass, Wheatland, and all counties 

east thereof), Nebraska, New Mexico 

(east of the Continental Divide except 

the Jicarilla Apache Indian Reservation), 

North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, 

Texas, and Wyoming (east of the 

Continental Divide). 

Pacific Flyway—includes Alaska, 

Arizona, California, Idaho, Nevada, 

Oregon, Utah, Washington, and those 

portions of Colorado, Montana, New 

Mexico, and Wyoming not included in 

the Central Flyway. 

Management Units 

High Plains Mallard Management 

Unit—roughly defined as that portion of 

the Central Flyway that lies west of the 

100th meridian. 

Definitions 

For the purpose of hunting 

regulations listed below, the collective 

terms ‘‘dark’’ and ‘‘light’’ geese include 

the following species: 

Dark geese: Canada geese, whitefronted geese, brant (except in 

California, Oregon, Washington, and the 

Atlantic Flyway), and all other goose 

species except light geese. 

Light geese: Snow (including blue) 

geese and Ross’s geese. 

Area, Zone, and Unit Descriptions: 

Geographic descriptions related to lateseason regulations are contained in a 

later portion of this document. 

Area-Specific Provisions: Frameworks 

for open seasons, season lengths, bag 

and possession limits, and other special 

provisions are listed below by Flyway. 

Waterfowl Seasons in the Atlantic 

Flyway 

In the Atlantic Flyway States of 

Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, 

Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, 

North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and 

Virginia, where Sunday hunting is 

prohibited statewide by State law, all 

Sundays are closed to all take of 

migratory waterfowl (including 

mergansers and coots). 

Special Youth Waterfowl Hunting Days 

Outside Dates: States may select 2 

consecutive days (hunting days in 

Atlantic Flyway States with 

compensatory days) per duck-hunting 

zone, designated as ‘‘Youth Waterfowl 

Hunting Days,’’ in addition to their 

regular duck seasons. The days must be 

held outside any regular duck season on 

a weekend, holiday, or other non-school 

day when youth hunters would have the 

maximum opportunity to participate. 

The days may be held up to 14 days 

before or after any regular duck-season 

frameworks or within any split of a 

regular duck season, or within any other 

open season on migratory birds. 

Daily Bag Limits: The daily bag limits 

may include ducks, geese, tundra 

swans, mergansers, coots, moorhens, 

and gallinules and would be the same 

as those allowed in the regular season. 

Flyway species and area restrictions 

would remain in effect. 

Shooting Hours: One-half hour before 

sunrise to sunset. 

Participation Restrictions: Youth 

hunters must be 15 years of age or 

younger. In addition, an adult at least 18 

years of age must accompany the youth 

hunter into the field. This adult may not 

duck hunt but may participate in other 

seasons that are open on the special 

youth day. Tundra swans may only be 

taken by participants possessing 

applicable tundra swan permits. 

Atlantic Flyway 

Ducks, Mergansers, and Coots 

Outside Dates: Between the Saturday 

nearest September 24 (September 25) 

and the last Sunday in January (January 

30). 

Hunting Seasons and Duck Limits: 60 

days. The daily bag limit is 6 ducks, 

including no more than 4 mallards (2 

hens), 1 black duck, 2 pintails, 1 

mottled duck, 1 fulvous whistling duck, 

3 wood ducks, 2 redheads, 2 scaup, 1 

canvasback, and 4 scoters. 

Closures: The season on harlequin 

ducks is closed. 

Sea Ducks: Within the special sea 

duck areas, during the regular duck 

season in the Atlantic Flyway, States 

may choose to allow the above sea duck 

limits in addition to the limits applying 

to other ducks during the regular duck 

season. In all other areas, sea ducks may 

be taken only during the regular open 

season for ducks and are part of the 

regular duck season daily bag (not to 

exceed 4 scoters) and possession limits. 

Merganser Limits: The daily bag limit 

of mergansers is 5, only 2 of which may 

be hooded mergansers. In States that 

include mergansers in the duck bag 

limit, the daily limit is the same as the 

duck bag limit, only two of which may 

be hooded mergansers. 

Coot Limits: The daily bag limit is 15 

coots. 

Lake Champlain Zone, New York: The 

waterfowl seasons, limits, and shooting 

hours shall be the same as those 

selected for the Lake Champlain Zone of 

Vermont. 

Connecticut River Zone, Vermont: 

The waterfowl seasons, limits, and 

shooting hours shall be the same as 

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those selected for the Inland Zone of 

New Hampshire. 

Zoning and Split Seasons: Delaware, 

Florida, Georgia, Maryland, North 

Carolina, Rhode Island, South Carolina, 

and Virginia may split their seasons into 

three segments; Connecticut, Maine, 

Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New 

Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, 

Vermont, and West Virginia may select 

hunting seasons by zones and may split 

their seasons into two segments in each 

zone. 

Canada Geese 

Season Lengths, Outside Dates, and 

Limits: Specific regulations for Canada 

geese are shown below by State. These 

seasons also include white-fronted 

geese. Unless specified otherwise, 

seasons may be split into two segments. 

In areas within States where the 

framework closing date for Atlantic 

Population (AP) goose seasons overlaps 

with special late-season frameworks for 

resident geese, the framework closing 

date for AP goose seasons is January 14. 

Connecticut 

North Atlantic Population (NAP) 

Zone: Between October 1 and January 

31, a 60-day season may be held with 

a 2-bird daily bag limit. 

Atlantic Population (AP) Zone: A 45- 

day season may be held between the 

fourth Saturday in October (October 23) 

and January 31, with a 3-bird daily bag 

limit. 

South Zone: A special season may be 

held between January 15 and February 

15, with a 5-bird daily bag limit. 

Resident Population (RP) Zone: An 

80-day season may be held between 

October 1 and February 15, with a 5- 

bird daily bag limit. The season may be 

split into 3 segments. 

Delaware: A 45-day season may be 

held between November 15 and January 

31, with a 2-bird daily bag limit. 

Florida: An 80-day season may be 

held between November 15 and 

February 15, with a 5-bird daily bag 

limit. The season may be split into 3 

segments. 

Georgia: In specific areas, an 80-day 

season may be held between November 

15 and February 15, with a 5-bird daily 

bag limit. The season may be split into 

3 segments. 

Maine: A 60-day season may be held 

Statewide between October 1 and 

January 31, with a 2-bird daily bag limit. 

Maryland 

RP Zone: An 80-day season may be 

held between November 15 and March 

10, with a 5-bird daily bag limit. The 

season may be split into 3 segments. 

AP Zone: A 45-day season may be 

held between November 15 and January 

31, with a 2-bird daily bag limit. 

Massachusetts 

NAP Zone: A 60-day season may be 

held between October 1 and January 31, 

with a 2-bird daily bag limit. 

Additionally, a special season may be 

held from January 15 to February 15, 

with a 5-bird daily bag limit. 

AP Zone: A 45-day season may be 

held between October 20 and January 

31, with a 3-bird daily bag limit. 

New Hampshire: A 60-day season may 

be held statewide between October 1 

and January 31, with a 2-bird daily bag 

limit. 

New Jersey 

Statewide: A 45-day season may be 

held between the fourth Saturday in 

October (October 23) and January 31, 

with a 3-bird daily bag limit. 

Special Late Goose Season Area: A 

special season may be held in 

designated areas of North and South 

New Jersey from January 15 to February 

15, with a 5-bird daily bag limit. 

New York 

NAP Zone: Between October 1 and 

January 31, a 60-day season may be 

held, with a 2-bird daily bag limit in the 

High Harvest areas; and between 

October 1 and February 15, a 70-day 

season may be held, with a 3-bird daily 

bag limit in the Low Harvest areas. 

Special Late Goose Season Area: A 

special season may be held between 

January 15 and February 15, with a 5- 

bird daily bag limit in designated areas 

of Suffolk County. 

AP Zone: A 45-day season may be 

held between the fourth Saturday in 

October (October 23), except in the Lake 

Champlain Area where the opening date 

is October 20, and January 31, with a 3- 

bird daily bag limit. 

Western Long Island RP Zone: A 107- 

day season may be held between the 

Saturday nearest September 24 

(September 25) and March 10, with an 

8-bird daily bag limit. The season may 

be split into 3 segments. 

Rest of State RP Zone: An 80-day 

season may be held between the fourth 

Saturday in October (October 23) and 

March 10, with a 5-bird daily bag limit. 

The season may be split into 3 

segments. 

North Carolina 

SJBP Zone: A 70-day season may be 

held between October 1 and December 

31, with a 5-bird daily bag limit. 

RP Zone: An 80-day season may be 

held between October 1 and March 10, 

with a 5-bird daily bag limit. The season 

may be split into 3 segments. 

Northeast Hunt Unit: A 7-day season 

may be held between the Saturday prior 

to December 25 (December 18) and 

January 31, with a 1-bird daily bag limit. 

Pennsylvania 

SJBP Zone: A 70-day season may be 

held between the second Saturday in 

October (October 9) and February 15, 

with a 3-bird daily bag limit. 

RP Zone: An 80-day season may be 

held between the fourth Saturday in 

October (October 23) and March 10, 

with a 5-bird daily bag limit. The season 

may be split into 3 segments. 

AP Zone: A 45-day season may be 

held between the fourth Saturday in 

October (October 23) and January 31, 

with a 3-bird daily bag limit. 

Rhode Island: A 60-day season may 

be held between October 1 and January 

31, with a 2-bird daily bag limit. A 

special late season may be held in 

designated areas from January 15 to 

February 15, with a 5-bird daily bag 

limit. 

South Carolina: In designated areas, 

an 80-day season may be held during 

November 15 to February 15, with a 5- 

bird daily bag limit. The season may be 

split into 3 segments. 

Vermont: A 45-day season may be 

held between October 20 and January 31 

with a 3-bird daily bag limit in the Lake 

Champlain Zone and Interior Zone. A 

60-day season may be held in the 

Connecticut River Zone between 

October 1 and January 31, with a 2-bird 

daily bag limit. 

Virginia 

SJBP Zone: A 40-day season may be 

held between November 15 and January 

14, with a 3-bird daily bag limit. 

Additionally, a special late season may 

be held between January 15 and 

February 15, with a 5-bird daily bag 

limit. 

AP Zone: A 45-day season may be 

held between November 15 and January 

31, with a 2-bird daily bag limit. 

RP Zone: An 80-day season may be 

held between November 15 and March 

10, with a 5-bird daily bag limit. The 

season may be split into 3 segments. 

West Virginia: An 80-day season may 

be held between October 1 and January 

31, with a 5-bird daily bag limit. The 

season may be split into 2 segments in 

each zone. 

Light Geese 

Season Lengths, Outside Dates, and 

Limits: States may select a 107-day 

season between October 1 and March 

10, with a 25-bird daily bag limit and no 

possession limit. States may split their 

seasons into three segments. 

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Brant 

Season Lengths, Outside Dates, and 

Limits: States may select a 50-day 

season between the Saturday nearest 

September 24 (September 25) and 

January 31, with a 2-bird daily bag limit. 

States may split their seasons into two 

segments. 

Mississippi Flyway 

Ducks, Mergansers, and Coots 

Outside Dates: Between the Saturday 

nearest September 24 (September 25) 

and the last Sunday in January (January 

30). 

Hunting Seasons and Duck Limits: 

The season may not exceed 60 days, 

with a daily bag limit of 6 ducks, 

including no more than 4 mallards (no 

more than 2 of which may be females), 

1 mottled duck, 1 black duck, 2 pintails, 

3 wood ducks, 1 canvasback, 2 scaup, 

and 2 redheads. 

Merganser Limits: The daily bag limit 

is 5, only 2 of which may be hooded 

mergansers. In States that include 

mergansers in the duck bag limit, the 

daily limit is the same as the duck bag 

limit, only 2 of which may be hooded 

mergansers. 

Coot Limits: The daily bag limit is 15 

coots. 

Zoning and Split Seasons: Alabama, 

Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, 

Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, 

Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, and 

Wisconsin may select hunting seasons 

by zones. 

In Alabama, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, 

Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, 

Tennessee, and Wisconsin, the season 

may be split into two segments in each 

zone. 

In Arkansas and Mississippi, the 

season may be split into three segments. 

Geese 

Split Seasons: Seasons for geese may 

be split into three segments. 

Season Lengths, Outside Dates, and 

Limits: States may select seasons for 

light geese not to exceed 107 days, with 

20 geese daily between the Saturday 

nearest September 24 (September 25) 

and March 10; for white-fronted geese 

not to exceed 72 days with 2 geese daily 

or 86 days with 1 goose daily between 

the Saturday nearest September 24 

(September 25) and the Sunday nearest 

February 15 (February 13); and for brant 

not to exceed 70 days, with 2 brant daily 

or 107 days with 1 brant daily between 

the Saturday nearest September 24 

(September 25) and January 31. There is 

no possession limit for light geese. 

Specific regulations for Canada geese 

and exceptions to the above general 

provisions are shown below by State. 

Except as noted below, the outside dates 

for Canada geese are the Saturday 

nearest September 24 (September 25) 

and January 31. 

Alabama: In the SJBP Goose Zone, the 

season for Canada geese may not exceed 

70 days. Elsewhere, the season for 

Canada geese may extend for 70 days in 

the respective duck-hunting zones. The 

daily bag limit is 2 Canada geese. 

Arkansas: In the Northwest Zone, the 

season for Canada geese may extend for 

82 days. In the remainder of the State, 

the season may not exceed 72 days. The 

season may extend to February 15. The 

daily bag limit is 2 Canada geese. 

Illinois: The season for Canada geese 

may extend for 85 days in the North and 

Central Zones and 66 days in the South 

Zone. The daily bag limit is 2 Canada 

geese. 

Indiana: The season for Canada geese 

may extend for 74 days. The daily bag 

limit is 2 Canada geese. 

Late Canada Goose Season Areas 

(a) A special Canada goose season of 

up to 15 days may be held during 

February 1–15 in Steuben, Lagrange, 

Elkhart, St. Joseph, La Porte, Starke, 

Marshall, Kosciusko, Noble, De Kalb, 

Allen, Whitley, Huntington, Wells, 

Adams, Boone, Hamilton, Madison, 

Hendricks, Marion, Hancock, Morgan, 

Johnson, and Shelby Counties. During 

this special season the daily bag limit 

cannot exceed 5 Canada geese. 

(b) An experimental special Canada 

goose season of up to 15 days may be 

held during February 1–15 in Clay, 

Greene, Parke, Sullivan, Vermillion, and 

Vigo Counties. During this special 

season the daily bag limit cannot exceed 

5 Canada geese. 

Iowa: The season for Canada geese 

may extend for 107 days. The daily bag 

limit is 3 Canada geese. 

Kentucky 

(a) Western Zone—The season for 

Canada geese may extend for 70 days 

(85 days in Fulton County). The season 

in Fulton County may extend to 

February 15. The daily bag limit is 2 

Canada geese. 

(b) Pennyroyal/Coalfield Zone—The 

season may extend for 70 days. The 

daily bag limit is 2 Canada geese. 

(c) Remainder of the State—The 

season may extend for 70 days. The 

daily bag limit is 2 Canada geese. 

Louisiana: The season for Canada 

geese may extend for 44 days. The daily 

bag limit is 1 Canada goose. 

Michigan 

(a) North Zone—The framework 

opening date for all geese is September 

16 and the season for Canada geese may 

extend for 45 days. The daily bag limit 

is 2 Canada geese. 

(b) Middle Zone—The framework 

opening date for all geese is September 

16 and the season for Canada geese may 

extend for 45 days. The daily bag limit 

is 2 Canada geese. 

(c) South Zone—The framework 

opening date for all geese is September 

16 and the season for Canada geese may 

extend for 45 days. The daily bag limit 

is 2 Canada geese. 

(1) Allegan County and Muskegon 

Wastewater GMU—The framework 

opening date for all geese is September 

16 and the season for Canada geese may 

extend for 45 days. The daily bag limit 

is 2 Canada geese. 

(2) Saginaw County and Tuscola/ 

Huron GMUs—The framework opening 

date for all geese is September 16 and 

the season for Canada geese may extend 

for 45 days through December 30 and an 

additional 30 days may be held between 

December 31 and February 7. The daily 

bag limit is 2 Canada geese. 

(d) Southern Michigan Late Season 

Canada Goose Zone—A 30-day special 

Canada goose season may be held 

between December 31 and February 7. 

The daily bag limit may not exceed 5 

Canada geese. 

Minnesota: The season for Canada 

geese may extend for 85 days. The daily 

bag limit is 3 Canada geese. 

Mississippi: The season for Canada 

geese may extend for 70 days. The daily 

bag limit is 3 Canada geese. 

Missouri: The season for Canada geese 

may extend for 85 days. The daily bag 

limit is 3 Canada geese. 

Ohio 

(a) Lake Erie Zone–The season may 

extend for 74 days. The daily bag limit 

is 2 Canada geese. 

(b) North Zone–The season may 

extend for 74 days. The daily bag limit 

is 2 Canada geese. 

(c) South Zone—The season may 

extend for 74 days. The daily bag limit 

is 2 Canada geese. 

Tennessee 

(a) Northwest Zone—The season for 

Canada geese may not exceed 72 days, 

and may extend to February 15. The 

daily bag limit is 2 Canada geese. 

(b) Southwest Zone—The season for 

Canada geese may extend for 72 days. 

The daily bag limit is 2 Canada geese. 

(c) Kentucky/Barkley Lakes Zone— 

The season for Canada geese may extend 

for 72 days. The daily bag limit is 2 

Canada geese. 

(d) Remainder of the State—The 

season for Canada geese may extend for 

72 days. The daily bag limit is 2 Canada 

geese. 

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Wisconsin 

(a) Horicon Zone—The framework 

opening date for all geese is September 

16. The season may not exceed 92 days. 

All Canada geese harvested must be 

tagged. The season limit will be 6 

Canada geese per permittee. 

(b) Collins Zone—The framework 

opening date for all geese is September 

16. The season may not exceed 70 days. 

All Canada geese harvested must be 

tagged. The season limit will be 6 

Canada geese per permittee. 

(c) Exterior Zone—The framework 

opening date for all geese is September 

16. The season may not exceed 85 days. 

The daily bag limit is 2 Canada geese. 

Additional Limits: In addition to the 

harvest limits stated for the respective 

zones above, an additional 4,500 Canada 

geese may be taken in the Horicon Zone 

under special agricultural permits. 

Central Flyway 

Ducks, Mergansers, and Coots 

Outside Dates: Between the Saturday 

nearest September 24 (September 25) 

and the last Sunday in January (January 

30). 

Hunting Seasons 

(1) High Plains Mallard Management 

Unit (roughly defined as that portion of 

the Central Flyway which lies west of 

the 100th meridian): 97 days. The last 

23 days may start no earlier than the 

Saturday nearest December 10 

(December 11). 

(2) Remainder of the Central Flyway: 

74 days. 

Bag Limits: The daily bag limit is 6 

ducks, with species and sex restrictions 

as follows: 5 mallards (no more than 2 

of which may be females), 2 redheads, 

2 scaup, 3 wood ducks, 2 pintails, and 

1 canvasback. In Texas, the daily bag 

limit on mottled ducks is 1, except for 

the first 5 days of the season when it is 

closed. 

Merganser Limits: The daily bag limit 

is 5 mergansers, only 2 of which may be 

hooded mergansers. In States that 

include mergansers in the duck daily 

bag limit, the daily limit may be the 

same as the duck bag limit, only two of 

which may be hooded mergansers. 

Coot Limits: The daily bag limit is 15 

coots. 

Zoning and Split Seasons: Kansas 

(Low Plains portion), Montana, 

Nebraska (Low Plains portion), New 

Mexico, Oklahoma (Low Plains portion), 

South Dakota (Low Plains portion), 

Texas (Low Plains portion), and 

Wyoming may select hunting seasons by 

zones. 

In Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, New 

Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South 

Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming, the 

regular season may be split into two 

segments. 

In Colorado, the season may be split 

into three segments. 

Geese 

Split Seasons: Seasons for geese may 

be split into three segments. Three-way 

split seasons for Canada geese require 

Central Flyway Council and U.S. Fish 

and Wildlife Service approval, and a 3- 

year evaluation by each participating 

State. 

Outside Dates: For dark geese, seasons 

may be selected between the outside 

dates of the Saturday nearest September 

24 (September 25) and the Sunday 

nearest February 15 (February 13). For 

light geese, outside dates for seasons 

may be selected between the Saturday 

nearest September 24 (September 25) 

and March 10. In the Rainwater Basin 

Light Goose Area (East and West) of 

Nebraska, temporal and spatial 

restrictions that are consistent with the 

late-winter snow goose hunting strategy 

cooperatively developed by the Central 

Flyway Council and the Service are 

required. 

Season Lengths and Limits 

Light Geese: States may select a light 

goose season not to exceed 107 days. 

The daily bag limit for light geese is 20 

with no possession limit. 

Dark Geese: In Kansas, Nebraska, 

North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, 

and the Eastern Goose Zone of Texas, 

States may select a season for Canada 

geese (or any other dark goose species 

except white-fronted geese) not to 

exceed 107 days with a daily bag limit 

of 3. Additionally, in the Eastern Goose 

Zone of Texas, an alternative season of 

107 days with a daily bag limit of 1 

Canada goose may be selected. For 

white-fronted geese, these States may 

select either a season of 72 days with a 

bag limit of 2 or an 86-day season with 

a bag limit of 1. 

In Colorado, Montana, New Mexico 

and Wyoming, States may select seasons 

not to exceed 107 days. The daily bag 

limit for dark geese is 5 in the aggregate. 

In the Western Goose Zone of Texas, 

the season may not exceed 95 days. The 

daily bag limit for Canada geese (or any 

other dark goose species except whitefronted geese) is 5. The daily bag limit 

for white-fronted geese is 1. 

Pacific Flyway 

Ducks, Mergansers, Coots, Common 

Moorhens, and Purple Gallinules 

Hunting Seasons and Duck Limits: 

Concurrent 107 days. The daily bag 

limit is 7 ducks and mergansers, 

including no more than 2 female 

mallards, 2 pintails, 3 scaup, 1 

canvasback, and 2 redheads. For scaup, 

the season length would be 86 days, 

which may be split according to 

applicable zones/split duck hunting 

configurations approved for each State. 

The season on coots and common 

moorhens may be between the outside 

dates for the season on ducks, but not 

to exceed 107 days. 

Coot, Common Moorhen, and Purple 

Gallinule Limits: The daily bag and 

possession limits of coots, common 

moorhens, and purple gallinules are 25, 

singly or in the aggregate. 

Outside Dates: Between the Saturday 

nearest September 24 (September 25) 

and the last Sunday in January (January 

30). 

Zoning and Split Seasons: Arizona, 

California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, 

Washington, and Wyoming may select 

hunting seasons by zones. Arizona, 

California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, 

Washington, and Wyoming may split 

their seasons into two segments. 

Colorado, Montana, and New Mexico 

may split their seasons into three 

segments. 

Colorado River Zone, California: 

Seasons and limits shall be the same as 

seasons and limits selected in the 

adjacent portion of Arizona (South 

Zone). 

Geese 

Season Lengths, Outside Dates, and 

Limits 

California, Oregon, and Washington 

Dark geese: Except as subsequently 

noted, 100-day seasons may be selected, 

with outside dates between the Saturday 

nearest October 1 (October 2), and the 

last Sunday in January (January 30). The 

basic daily bag limit is 4 dark geese, 

except the dark goose bag limit does not 

include brant. 

Light geese: Except as subsequently 

noted, 107-day seasons may be selected, 

with outside dates between the Saturday 

nearest October 1 (October 2), and 

March 10. The daily bag limit is 6 light 

geese. 

Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, 

Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and 

Wyoming: 

Dark geese: Except as subsequently 

noted, 107-day seasons may be selected, 

with outside dates between the Saturday 

nearest September 24 (September 25), 

and the last Sunday in January (January 

30). The basic daily bag limit is 4 dark 

geese. 

Light geese: Except as subsequently 

noted, 107-day seasons may be selected, 

with outside dates between the Saturday 

nearest September 24 (September 25), 

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and March 10. The basic daily bag limit 

is 10 light geese. 

Split Seasons: Unless otherwise 

specified, seasons for geese may be split 

into up to 3 segments. Three-way split 

seasons for Canada geese and whitefronted geese require Pacific Flyway 

Council and U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

Service approval and a 3-year 

evaluation by each participating State. 

Brant Season 

Oregon may select a 16-day season, 

Washington a 16-day season, and 

California a 30-day season. Days must 

be consecutive. Washington and 

California may select hunting seasons 

by up to two zones. The daily bag limit 

is 2 brant and is in addition to dark 

goose limits. In Oregon and California, 

the brant season must end no later than 

December 15. 

Arizona: The daily bag limit for dark 

geese is 3. 

California 

Northeastern Zone: The daily bag 

limit is 6 dark geese and may include no 

more than 1 cackling Canada goose or 1 

Aleutian Canada goose. 

Balance-of-State Zone: A 107-day 

season may be selected. Limits may not 

include more than 6 dark geese per day. 

In the Sacramento Valley Special 

Management Area, the season on whitefronted geese must end on or before 

December 14, and the daily bag limit 

shall contain no more than 2 whitefronted geese. In the North Coast Special 

Management Area, 107-day seasons may 

be selected, with outside dates between 

the Saturday nearest October 1 (October 

2) and March 10. Hunting days that 

occur after the last Sunday in January 

shall be concurrent with Oregon’s South 

Coast Zone. 

Colorado: The daily bag limit for dark 

geese is 3. 

Idaho 

Zone 2: Hunting days that occur after 

the last Sunday in January shall be 

concurrent with Oregon’s Malheur 

County Zone. 

Nevada: The daily bag limit for dark 

geese is 3. 

New Mexico: The daily bag limit for 

dark geese is 3. 

Oregon 

Except as subsequently noted, the 

dark goose daily bag limit is 4, 

including not more than 1 cackling or 

Aleutian goose. 

Harney and Lake County Zone: For 

Lake County only, the daily dark goose 

bag limit may not include more than 1 

white-fronted goose. 

Klamath County Zone: A 107-day 

season may be selected, with outside 

dates between the Saturday nearest 

October 1 (October 2), and March 10. A 

3-way split season may be selected. For 

hunting days after the last Sunday in 

January, the daily bag limit may not 

include Canada geese. 

Malheur County Zone: The daily bag 

limit of light geese is 10. Hunting days 

that occur after the last Sunday in 

January shall be concurrent with Idaho’s 

Zone 2. 

Northwest Special Permit Zone: 

Outside dates are between the Saturday 

nearest October 1 (October 2) and March 

10. The daily bag limit of dark geese is 

4 including not more than 2 cackling or 

Aleutian geese and daily bag limit of 

light geese is 4. In those designated 

areas of Tillamook County open to 

hunting, the daily bag limit of dark 

geese is 3, including not more than 2 

cackling or Aleutian geese. 

South Coast Zone: The daily dark 

goose bag limit is 4 including cackling 

and Aleutian geese. In Oregon’s South 

Coast Zone 107-day seasons may be 

selected, with outside dates between the 

Saturday nearest October 1 (October 2) 

and March 10. Hunting days that occur 

after the last Sunday in January shall be 

concurrent with California’s North Coast 

Special Management Area. A 3-way 

split season may be selected. 

Southwest Zone: The daily dark goose 

bag limit is 4 including cackling and 

Aleutian geese. 

Utah: The daily bag limit for dark 

geese is 3. 

Washington: The daily bag limit is 4 

geese. 

Area 1: Outside dates are between the 

Saturday nearest October 1 (October 2), 

and the last Sunday in January (January 

30). 

Areas 2A and 2B (Southwest Quota 

Zone): Except for designated areas, there 

will be no open season on Canada geese. 

See section on quota zones. In this area, 

the daily bag limit may include 2 

cackling geese. In Southwest Quota 

Zone Area 2B (Pacific County), the daily 

bag limit may include 1 Aleutian goose. 

Areas 4 and 5: A 107-day season may 

be selected for dark geese. 

Wyoming: The daily bag limit for dark 

geese is 3. 

Quota Zones 

Seasons on geese must end upon 

attainment of individual quotas of 

dusky geese allotted to the designated 

areas of Oregon (90) and Washington 

(45). The September Canada goose 

season, the regular goose season, any 

special late dark goose season, and any 

extended falconry season, combined, 

must not exceed 107 days, and the 

established quota of dusky geese must 

not be exceeded. Hunting of geese in 

those designated areas will be only by 

hunters possessing a State-issued permit 

authorizing them to do so. In a Serviceapproved investigation, the State must 

obtain quantitative information on 

hunter compliance of those regulations 

aimed at reducing the take of dusky 

geese. If the monitoring program cannot 

be conducted, for any reason, the season 

must immediately close. In the 

designated areas of the Washington 

Southwest Quota Zone, a special late 

goose season may be held between the 

Saturday following the close of the 

general goose season and March 10. In 

the Northwest Special Permit Zone of 

Oregon, the framework closing date is 

March 10. Regular goose seasons may be 

split into 3 segments within the Oregon 

and Washington quota zones. 

Swans 

In portions of the Pacific Flyway 

(Montana, Nevada, and Utah), an open 

season for taking a limited number of 

swans may be selected. Permits will be 

issued by the State and will authorize 

each permittee to take no more than 1 

swan per season with each permit. 

Nevada may issue up to 2 permits per 

hunter. Montana and Utah may only 

issue 1 permit per hunter. Each State’s 

season may open no earlier than the 

Saturday nearest October 1 (October 2). 

These seasons are also subject to the 

following conditions: 

Montana: No more than 500 permits 

may be issued. The season must end no 

later than December 1. The State must 

implement a harvest-monitoring 

program to measure the species 

composition of the swan harvest and 

should use appropriate measures to 

maximize hunter compliance in 

reporting bill measurement and color 

information. 

Utah: No more than 2,000 permits 

may be issued. During the swan season, 

no more than 10 trumpeter swans may 

be taken. The season must end no later 

than the second Sunday in December 

(December 12) or upon attainment of 10 

trumpeter swans in the harvest, 

whichever occurs earliest. The Utah 

season remains subject to the terms of 

the Memorandum of Agreement entered 

into with the Service in August 2001, 

regarding harvest monitoring, season 

closure procedures, and education 

requirements to minimize the take of 

trumpeter swans during the swan 

season. 

Nevada: No more than 650 permits 

may be issued. During the swan season, 

no more than 5 trumpeter swans may be 

taken. The season must end no later 

than the Sunday following January 1 

(January 2) or upon attainment of 5 

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trumpeter swans in the harvest, 

whichever occurs earliest. 

In addition, the States of Utah and 

Nevada must implement a harvestmonitoring program to measure the 

species composition of the swan 

harvest. The harvest-monitoring 

program must require that all harvested 

swans or their species-determinant parts 

be examined by either State or Federal 

biologists for the purpose of species 

classification. The States should use 

appropriate measures to maximize 

hunter compliance in providing bagged 

swans for examination. Further, the 

States of Montana, Nevada, and Utah 

must achieve at least an 80-percent 

compliance rate, or subsequent permits 

will be reduced by 10 percent. All three 

States must provide to the Service by 

June 30, 2011, a report detailing harvest, 

hunter participation, reporting 

compliance, and monitoring of swan 

populations in the designated hunt 

areas. 

Tundra Swans 

In portions of the Atlantic Flyway 

(North Carolina and Virginia) and the 

Central Flyway (North Dakota, South 

Dakota [east of the Missouri River], and 

that portion of Montana in the Central 

Flyway), an open season for taking a 

limited number of tundra swans may be 

selected. Permits will be issued by the 

States that authorize the take of no more 

than 1 tundra swan per permit. A 

second permit may be issued to hunters 

from unused permits remaining after the 

first drawing. The States must obtain 

harvest and hunter participation data. 

These seasons are also subject to the 

following conditions: 

In the Atlantic Flyway: 

—The season may be 90 days, from 

October 1 to January 31. 

—In North Carolina, no more than 5,000 

permits may be issued. 

—In Virginia, no more than 600 permits 

may be issued. 

In the Central Flyway: 

—The season may be 107 days, from the 

Saturday nearest October 1 (October 

2) to January 31. 

—In the Central Flyway portion of 

Montana, no more than 500 permits 

may be issued. 

—In North Dakota, no more than 2,200 

permits may be issued. 

—In South Dakota, no more than 1,300 

permits may be issued. 

Area, Unit, and Zone Descriptions 

Ducks (Including Mergansers) and Coots 

Atlantic Flyway 

Connecticut 

North Zone: That portion of the State 

north of I–95. 

South Zone: Remainder of the State. 

Maine 

North Zone: That portion north of the 

line extending east along Maine State 

Highway 110 from the New Hampshire 

and Maine State line to the intersection 

of Maine State Highway 11 in Newfield; 

then north and east along Route 11 to 

the intersection of U.S. Route 202 in 

Auburn; then north and east on Route 

202 to the intersection of Interstate 

Highway 95 in Augusta; then north and 

east along I–95 to Route 15 in Bangor; 

then east along Route 15 to Route 9; 

then east along Route 9 to Stony Brook 

in Baileyville; then east along Stony 

Brook to the United States border. 

South Zone: Remainder of the State. 

Massachusetts 

Western Zone: That portion of the 

State west of a line extending south 

from the Vermont State line on I–91 to 

MA 9, west on MA 9 to MA 10, south 

on MA 10 to U.S. 202, south on U.S. 202 

to the Connecticut State line. 

Central Zone: That portion of the 

State east of the Berkshire Zone and 

west of a line extending south from the 

New Hampshire State line on I–95 to 

U.S. 1, south on U.S. 1 to I–93, south on 

I–93 to MA 3, south on MA 3 to U.S. 

6, west on U.S. 6 to MA 28, west on MA 

28 to I–195, west to the Rhode Island 

State line; except the waters, and the 

lands 150 yards inland from the highwater mark, of the Assonet River 

upstream to the MA 24 bridge, and the 

Taunton River upstream to the Center 

St.-Elm St. bridge shall be in the Coastal 

Zone. 

Coastal Zone: That portion of 

Massachusetts east and south of the 

Central Zone. 

New Hampshire 

Coastal Zone: That portion of the 

State east of a line extending west from 

the Maine State line in Rollinsford on 

NH 4 to the city of Dover, south to NH 

108, south along NH 108 through 

Madbury, Durham, and Newmarket to 

NH 85 in Newfields, south to NH 101 

in Exeter, east to NH 51 (Exeter– 

Hampton Expressway), east to I–95 

(New Hampshire Turnpike) in 

Hampton, and south along I–95 to the 

Massachusetts State line. 

Inland Zone: That portion of the State 

north and west of the above boundary 

and along the Massachusetts State line 

crossing the Connecticut River to 

Interstate 91 and northward in Vermont 

to Route 2, east to 102, northward to the 

Canadian border. 

New Jersey 

Coastal Zone: That portion of the 

State seaward of a line beginning at the 

New York State line in Raritan Bay and 

extending west along the New York 

State line to NJ 440 at Perth Amboy; 

west on NJ 440 to the Garden State 

Parkway; south on the Garden State 

Parkway to the shoreline at Cape May 

and continuing to the Delaware State 

line in Delaware Bay. 

North Zone: That portion of the State 

west of the Coastal Zone and north of 

a line extending west from the Garden 

State Parkway on NJ 70 to the New 

Jersey Turnpike, north on the turnpike 

to U.S. 206, north on U.S. 206 to U.S. 

1 at Trenton, west on U.S. 1 to the 

Pennsylvania State line in the Delaware 

River. 

South Zone: That portion of the State 

not within the North Zone or the Coastal 

Zone. 

New York 

Lake Champlain Zone: That area east 

and north of a continuous line 

extending along U.S. 11 from the New 

York-Canada International boundary 

south to NY 9B, south along NY 9B to 

U.S. 9, south along U.S. 9 to NY 22 

south of Keesville; south along NY 22 to 

the west shore of South Bay, along and 

around the shoreline of South Bay to 

NY 22 on the east shore of South Bay; 

southeast along NY 22 to U.S. 4, 

northeast along U.S. 4 to the Vermont 

State line. 

Long Island Zone: That area 

consisting of Nassau County, Suffolk 

County, that area of Westchester County 

southeast of I–95, and their tidal waters. 

Western Zone: That area west of a line 

extending from Lake Ontario east along 

the north shore of the Salmon River to 

I–81, and south along I–81 to the 

Pennsylvania State line. 

Northeastern Zone: That area north of 

a line extending from Lake Ontario east 

along the north shore of the Salmon 

River to I–81, south along I–81 to NY 31, 

east along NY 31 to NY 13, north along 

NY 13 to NY 49, east along NY 49 to NY 

365, east along NY 365 to NY 28, east 

along NY 28 to NY 29, east along NY 29 

to I–87, north along I–87 to U.S. 9 (at 

Exit 20), north along U.S. 9 to NY 149, 

east along NY 149 to U.S. 4, north along 

U.S. 4 to the Vermont State line, 

exclusive of the Lake Champlain Zone. 

Southeastern Zone: The remaining 

portion of New York. 

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Pennsylvania 

Lake Erie Zone: The Lake Erie waters 

of Pennsylvania and a shoreline margin 

along Lake Erie from New York on the 

east to Ohio on the west extending 150 

yards inland, but including all of 

Presque Isle Peninsula. 

Northwest Zone: The area bounded on 

the north by the Lake Erie Zone and 

including all of Erie and Crawford 

Counties and those portions of Mercer 

and Venango Counties north of I–80. 

North Zone: That portion of the State 

east of the Northwest Zone and north of 

a line extending east on I–80 to 

U.S. 220, Route 220 to I–180, I–180 to 

I–80, and I–80 to the Delaware River. 

South Zone: The remaining portion of 

Pennsylvania. 

Vermont 

Lake Champlain Zone: The U.S. 

portion of Lake Champlain and that area 

north and west of the line extending 

from the New York State line along 

U.S. 4 to VT 22A at Fair Haven; VT 22A 

to U.S. 7 at Vergennes; U.S. 7 to the 

Canadian border. 

Interior Zone: That portion of 

Vermont west of the Lake Champlain 

Zone and eastward of a line extending 

from the Massachusetts State line at 

Interstate 91; north along Interstate 91 to 

US 2; east along US 2 to VT 102; north 

along VT 102 to VT 253; north along 

VT 253 to the Canadian border. 

Connecticut River Zone: The 

remaining portion of Vermont east of 

the Interior Zone. 

West Virginia 

Zone 1: That portion outside the 

boundaries in Zone 2. 

Zone 2 (Allegheny Mountain Upland): 

That area bounded by a line extending 

south along U.S. 220 through Keyser to 

U.S. 50; U.S. 50 to WV 93; WV 93 south 

to WV 42; WV 42 south to Petersburg; 

WV 28 south to Minnehaha Springs; WV 

39 west to U.S. 219; U.S. 219 south to 

I–64; I–64 west to U.S. 60; U.S. 60 west 

to U.S. 19; U.S. 19 north to I–79, I–79 

north to I–68; I–68 east to the Maryland 

State line; and along the State line to the 

point of beginning. 

Mississippi Flyway 

Alabama 

South Zone: Mobile and Baldwin 

Counties. 

North Zone: The remainder of 

Alabama. 

Illinois 

North Zone: That portion of the State 

north of a line extending west from the 

Indiana border along Peotone-Beecher 

Road to Illinois Route 50, south along 

Illinois Route 50 to Wilmington-Peotone 

Road, west along Wilmington-Peotone 

Road to Illinois Route 53, north along 

Illinois Route 53 to New River Road, 

northwest along New River Road to 

Interstate Highway 55, south along I–55 

to Pine Bluff-Lorenzo Road, west along 

Pine Bluff-Lorenzo Road to Illinois 

Route 47, north along Illinois Route 47 

to I–80, west along I–80 to I–39, south 

along I–39 to Illinois Route 18, west 

along Illinois Route 18 to Illinois Route 

29, south along Illinois Route 29 to 

Illinois Route 17, west along Illinois 

Route 17 to the Mississippi River, and 

due south across the Mississippi River 

to the Iowa border. 

Central Zone: That portion of the 

State south of the North Zone to a line 

extending west from the Indiana border 

along Interstate Highway 70 to Illinois 

Route 4, south along Illinois Route 4 to 

Illinois Route 161, west along Illinois 

Route 161 to Illinois Route 158, south 

and west along Illinois Route 158 to 

Illinois Route 159, south along Illinois 

Route 159 to Illinois Route 156, west 

along Illinois Route 156 to A Road, 

north and west on A Road to Levee 

Road, north on Levee Road to the south 

shore of New Fountain Creek, west 

along the south shore of New Fountain 

Creek to the Mississippi River, and due 

west across the Mississippi River to the 

Missouri border. 

South Zone: The remainder of Illinois. 

Indiana 

North Zone: That portion of the State 

north of a line extending east from the 

Illinois State line along State Road 18 to 

U.S. Highway 31, north along U.S. 31 to 

U.S. 24, east along U.S. 24 to 

Huntington, then southeast along U.S. 

224 to the Ohio State line. 

Ohio River Zone: That portion of the 

State south of a line extending east from 

the Illinois State line along Interstate 

Highway 64 to New Albany, east along 

State Road 62 to State Road 56, east 

along State Road 56 to Vevay, east and 

north on State 156 along the Ohio River 

to North Landing, north along State 56 

to U.S. Highway 50, then northeast 

along U.S. 50 to the Ohio State line. 

South Zone: That portion of the State 

between the North and Ohio River Zone 

boundaries. 

Iowa 

North Zone: That portion of the State 

north of a line extending east from the 

Nebraska border along State Highway 

175 to State Highway 37, southeast 

along State Highway 37 to State 

Highway 183, northeast along State 

Highway 183 to State Highway 141, east 

along State Highway 141 to U.S. 

Highway 30, then east along U.S. 

Highway 30 to the Illinois border. 

South Zone: The remainder of Iowa. 

Kentucky 

West Zone: All counties west of and 

including Butler, Daviess, Ohio, 

Simpson, and Warren Counties. 

East Zone: The remainder of 

Kentucky. 

Louisiana 

West Zone: That portion of the State 

west and south of a line extending south 

from the Arkansas State line along 

Louisiana Highway 3 to Bossier City, 

east along Interstate Highway 20 to 

Minden, south along Louisiana 7 to 

Ringgold, east along Louisiana 4 to 

Jonesboro, south along U.S. Highway 

167 to Lafayette, southeast along U.S. 90 

to the Mississippi State line. 

East Zone: The remainder of 

Louisiana. 

Michigan 

North Zone: The Upper Peninsula. 

Middle Zone: That portion of the 

Lower Peninsula north of a line 

beginning at the Wisconsin State line in 

Lake Michigan due west of the mouth of 

Stony Creek in Oceana County; then due 

east to, and easterly and southerly along 

the south shore of Stony Creek to Scenic 

Drive, easterly and southerly along 

Scenic Drive to Stony Lake Road, 

easterly along Stony Lake and Garfield 

Roads to Michigan Highway 20, east 

along Michigan 20 to U.S. Highway 10 

Business Route (BR) in the city of 

Midland, easterly along U.S. 10 BR to 

U.S. 10, easterly along U.S. 10 to 

Interstate Highway 75/U.S. Highway 23, 

northerly along I–75/U.S. 23 to the U.S. 

23 exit at Standish, easterly along U.S. 

23 to the centerline of the Au Gres 

River, then southerly along the 

centerline of the Au Gres River to 

Saginaw Bay, then on a line directly east 

10 miles into Saginaw Bay, and from 

that point on a line directly northeast to 

the Canadian border. 

South Zone: The remainder of 

Michigan. 

Minnesota 

North Duck Zone: That portion of the 

State north of a line extending east from 

the North Dakota State line along State 

Highway 210 to State Highway 23, east 

along State Highway 23 to State 

Highway 39, then east along State 

Highway 39 to the Wisconsin State line 

at the Oliver Bridge. 

South Duck Zone: The remainder of 

Minnesota. 

Missouri 

North Zone: That portion of Missouri 

north of a line running west from the 

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Illinois State line (Lock and Dam 25) on 

Lincoln County Highway N to Missouri 

Highway 79; south on Missouri 

Highway 79 to Missouri Highway 47; 

west on Missouri Highway 47 to 

Interstate 70; west on Interstate 70 to the 

Kansas State line. 

South Zone: That portion of Missouri 

south of a line running west from the 

Illinois State line on Missouri Highway 

34 to Interstate 55; south on Interstate 

55 to U.S. Highway 62; west on U.S. 

Highway 62 to Missouri Highway 53; 

north on Missouri Highway 53 to 

Missouri Highway 51; north on Missouri 

Highway 51 to U.S. Highway 60; west 

on U.S. Highway 60 to Missouri 

Highway 21; north on Missouri 

Highway 21 to Missouri Highway 72; 

west on Missouri Highway 72 to 

Missouri Highway 32; west on Missouri 

Highway 32 to U.S. Highway 65; north 

on U.S. Highway 65 to U.S. Highway 54; 

west on U.S. Highway 54 to the Kansas 

State line. 

Middle Zone: The remainder of 

Missouri. 

Ohio 

North Zone: That portion of the State 

north of a line extending east from the 

Indiana State line along U.S. Highway 

33 to State Route 127, south along SR 

127 to SR 703, south along SR 703 to SR 

219, east along SR 219 to SR 364, north 

along SR 364 to SR 703, east along SR 

703 to SR 66, north along SR 66 to U.S. 

33, east along U.S. 33 to SR 385, east 

along SR 385 to SR 117, south along SR 

117 to SR 273, east along SR 273 to SR 

31, south along SR 31 to SR 739, east 

along SR 739 to SR 4, north along SR 

4 to SR 95, east along SR 95 to SR 13, 

southeast along SR 13 to SR 3, northeast 

along SR 3 to SR 60, north along SR 60 

to U.S. 30, east along U.S. 30 to SR 3, 

south along SR 3 to SR 226, south along 

SR 226 to SR 514, southwest along SR 

514 to SR 754, south along SR 754 to SR 

39/60, east along SR 39/60 to SR 241, 

north along SR 241 to U.S. 30, east along 

U.S. 30 to SR 39, east along SR 39 to the 

Pennsylvania State line. 

South Zone: The remainder of Ohio. 

Tennessee 

Reelfoot Zone: All or portions of Lake 

and Obion Counties. 

State Zone: The remainder of 

Tennessee. 

Wisconsin 

North Zone: That portion of the State 

north of a line extending east from the 

Minnesota State line along U.S. 

Highway 10 into Portage County to 

County Highway HH, east on County 

Highway HH to State Highway 66 and 

then east on State Highway 66 to U.S. 

Highway 10, continuing east on U.S. 

Highway 10 to U.S. Highway 41, then 

north on U.S. Highway 41 to the 

Michigan State line. 

South Zone: The remainder of 

Wisconsin. 

Central Flyway 

Colorado (Central Flyway Portion) 

Eastern Plains Zone: That portion of 

the State east of Interstate 25, and all of 

El Paso, Pueblo, Heurfano, and Las 

Animas Counties. 

Mountain/Foothills Zone: That 

portion of the State west of Interstate 25 

and east of the Continental Divide, 

except El Paso, Pueblo, Heurfano, and 

Las Animas Counties. 

Kansas 

High Plains Zone: That portion of the 

State west of U.S. 283. 

Low Plains Early Zone: That area of 

Kansas east of U.S. 283, and generally 

west of a line beginning at the Junction 

of the Nebraska border and KS 28; south 

on KS 28 to U.S. 36; east on U.S. 36 to 

KS 199; south on KS 199 to Republic 

Co. Road 563; south on Republic Co. 

Road 563 to KS 148; east on KS 148 to 

Republic Co. Road 138; south on 

Republic Co. Road 138 to Cloud Co. 

Road 765; south on Cloud Co. Road 765 

to KS 9; west on KS 9 to U.S. 24; west 

on U.S. 24 to U.S. 281; north on U.S. 

281 to U.S. 36; west on U.S. 36 to U.S. 

183; south on U.S. 183 to U.S. 24; west 

on U.S. 24 to KS 18; southeast on KS 18 

to U.S. 183; south on U.S. 183 to KS 4; 

east on KS 4 to I–135; south on I–135 

to KS 61; southwest on KS 61 to KS 96; 

northwest on KS 96 to U.S. 56; 

southwest on U.S. 56 to KS 19; east on 

KS 19 to U.S. 281; south on U.S. 281 to 

U.S. 54; west on U.S. 54 to U.S. 183; 

north on U.S. 183 to U.S. 56; southwest 

on U.S. 56 to Ford Co. Road 126; south 

on Ford Co. Road 126 to U.S. 400; 

northwest on U.S. 400 to U.S. 283. 

Low Plains Late Zone: The remainder 

of Kansas. 

Montana (Central Flyway Portion) 

Zone 1: The Counties of Blaine, 

Carbon, Carter, Daniels, Dawson, Fallon, 

Fergus, Garfield, Golden Valley, Judith 

Basin, McCone, Musselshell, Petroleum, 

Phillips, Powder River, Richland, 

Roosevelt, Sheridan, Stillwater, Sweet 

Grass, Valley, Wheatland, Wibaux, and 

Yellowstone. 

Zone 2: The remainder of Montana. 

Nebraska 

High Plains Zone: That portion of 

Nebraska lying west of a line beginning 

at the South Dakota-Nebraska border on 

U.S. 183, south on U.S. 183 to U.S. 20, 

west on U.S. 20 to NE 7, south on NE 

7 to NE 91, southwest on NE 91 to NE 

2, southeast on NE 2 to NE 92, west on 

NE 92 to NE 40, south on NE 40 to NE 

47, south on NE 47 to NE 23, east on NE 

23 to U.S. 283 and south on U.S. 283 to 

the Kansas-Nebraska border. 

Low Plains Zone 1: That portion of 

Dixon County west of NE 26E Spur and 

north of NE 12; those portions of Cedar 

County north of NE 12; those portions 

of Knox County north of NE 12 to 

intersection of Niobrara River; all of 

Boyd County; Keya Paha County east of 

U.S. 183. Both banks of the Niobrara 

River in Keya Paha, Boyd, and Knox 

Counties east of U.S. 183 shall be 

included in Zone 1. 

Low Plains Zone 2: Area bounded by 

designated Federal and State highways 

and political boundaries beginning at 

the Kansas-Nebraska border on U.S. 75 

to U.S. 136; east to the intersection of 

U.S. 136 and the Steamboat Trace 

(Trace); north along the Trace to the 

intersection with Federal Levee R–562; 

north along Federal Levee R–562 to the 

intersection with the Trace; north along 

the Trace/Burlington Northern Railroad 

right-of-way to NE 2; west to U.S. 75; 

north to NE 2; west to NE 43; north to 

U.S. 34; east to NE 63; north and west 

to U.S. 77; north to NE 92; west to U.S. 

81; south to NE 66; west to NE 14; south 

to County Road 22 (Hamilton County); 

west to County Road M; south to County 

Road 21; west to County Road K; south 

U.S. 34; west to NE 2; south to U.S. I– 

80; west to Gunbarrel Road (Hall/ 

Hamilton county line); south to Giltner 

Road; west to U.S. 281; south to U.S. 34; 

west to NE 10; north to County Road ‘‘R’’ 

(Kearney County) and County Road 

#742 (Phelps County); west to County 

Road #438 (Gosper County line); south 

along County Road #438 (Gosper County 

line) to County Road #726 (Furnas 

County line); east to County Road #438 

(Harlan County line); south to U.S. 34; 

south and west to U.S. 136; east to NE 

14; south to the Kansas-Nebraska 

border; west to U.S. 283; north to NE 23; 

west to NE 47; north to U.S. 30; east to 

NE 14; north to NE 52; west and north 

to NE 91 to U.S. 281; south to NE 22; 

west to NE 11; northwest to NE 91; west 

to Loup County Line; north to LoupBrown County line; east along northern 

boundaries of Loup, Garfield, and 

Wheeler Counties; south on the 

Wheeler-Antelope county line to NE 70; 

east to NE 14; south to NE 39; southeast 

to NE 22; east to U.S. 81; southeast to 

U.S. 30; east to U.S. 75; north to the 

Washington County line; east to the 

Iowa-Nebraska border; south along the 

Iowa-Nebraska border; to the beginning 

at U.S. 75 and the Kansas-Nebraska 

border. 

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Low Plains Zone 3: The area east of 

the High Plains Zone, excluding Low 

Plains Zone 1, north of Low Plains Zone 

2. 

Low Plains Zone 4: The area east of 

the High Plains Zone and south of Zone 

2. 

New Mexico (Central Flyway Portion) 

North Zone: That portion of the State 

north of I–40 and U.S. 54. 

South Zone: The remainder of New 

Mexico. 

North Dakota 

High Plains Unit: That portion of the 

State south and west of a line from the 

South Dakota State line along U.S. 83 

and I–94 to ND 41, north to U.S. 2, west 

to the Williams/Divide County line, 

then north along the County line to the 

Canadian border. 

Low Plains Unit: The remainder of 

North Dakota. 

Oklahoma 

High Plains Zone: The Counties of 

Beaver, Cimarron, and Texas. 

Low Plains Zone 1: That portion of 

the State east of the High Plains Zone 

and north of a line extending east from 

the Texas State line along OK 33 to OK 

47, east along OK 47 to U.S. 183, south 

along U.S.183 to I–40, east along I–40 to 

U.S. 177, north along U.S. 177 to OK 33, 

east along OK 33 to OK 18, north along 

OK 18 to OK 51, west along OK 51 to 

I–35, north along I–35 to U.S. 412, west 

along U.S. 412 to OK 132, then north 

along OK 132 to the Kansas State line. 

Low Plains Zone 2: The remainder of 

Oklahoma. 

South Dakota 

High Plains Zone: That portion of the 

State west of a line beginning at the 

North Dakota State line and extending 

south along U.S. 83 to U.S.14, east on 

U.S.14 to Blunt, south on the BluntCanning road to SD 34, east and south 

on SD 34 to SD 50 at Lee’s Corner, south 

on SD 50 to I–90, east on I–90 to SD 50, 

south on SD 50 to SD 44, west on SD 

44 across the Platte-Winner bridge to SD 

47, south on SD 47 to U.S.18, east on 

U.S. 18 to SD 47, south on SD 47 to the 

Nebraska State line. 

North Zone: That portion of 

northeastern South Dakota east of the 

High Plains Unit and north of a line 

extending east along U.S. 212 to the 

Minnesota State line. 

South Zone: That portion of Gregory 

County east of SD 47 and south of SD 

44; Charles Mix County south of SD 44 

to the Douglas County line; south on SD 

50 to Geddes; east on the Geddes 

Highway to U.S. 281; south on U.S. 281 

and U.S. 18 to SD 50; south and east on 

SD 50 to the Bon Homme County line; 

the Counties of Bon Homme, Yankton, 

and Clay south of SD 50; and Union 

County south and west of SD 50 and I– 

29. 

Middle Zone: The remainder of South 

Dakota. 

Texas 

High Plains Zone: That portion of the 

State west of a line extending south 

from the Oklahoma State line along U.S. 

183 to Vernon, south along U.S. 283 to 

Albany, south along TX 6 to TX 351 to 

Abilene, south along U.S. 277 to Del 

Rio, then south along the Del Rio 

International Toll Bridge access road to 

the Mexico border. 

Low Plains North Zone: That portion 

of northeastern Texas east of the High 

Plains Zone and north of a line 

beginning at the International Toll 

Bridge south of Del Rio, then extending 

east on U.S. 90 to San Antonio, then 

continuing east on I–10 to the Louisiana 

State line at Orange, Texas. 

Low Plains South Zone: The 

remainder of Texas. 

Wyoming (Central Flyway Portion) 

Zone C1: The Counties of Converse, 

Goshen, Hot Springs, Natrona, Platte, 

and Washakie; and the portion of Park 

County east of the Shoshone National 

Forest boundary and south of a line 

beginning where the Shoshone National 

Forest boundary meets Park County 

Road 8VC, east along Park County Road 

8VC to Park County Road 1AB, 

continuing east along Park County Road 

1AB to Wyoming Highway 120, north 

along WY Highway 120 to WY Highway 

294, south along WY Highway 294 to 

Lane 9, east along Lane 9 to Powel and 

WY Highway 14A, and finally east along 

WY Highway 14A to the Park County 

and Big Horn County line. 

Zone C2: The remainder of Wyoming. 

Pacific Flyway 

Arizona 

Game Management Units (GMU) as 

follows: 

South Zone: Those portions of GMUs 

6 and 8 in Yavapai County, and GMUs 

10 and 12B–45. 

North Zone: GMUs 1–5, those 

portions of GMUs 6 and 8 within 

Coconino County, and GMUs 7, 9, 12A. 

California 

Northeastern Zone: In that portion of 

California lying east and north of a line 

beginning at the intersection of 

Interstate 5 with the California-Oregon 

line; south along Interstate 5 to its 

junction with Walters Lane south of the 

town of Yreka; west along Walters Lane 

to its junction with Easy Street; south 

along Easy Street to the junction with 

Old Highway 99; south along Old 

Highway 99 to the point of intersection 

with Interstate 5 north of the town of 

Weed; south along Interstate 5 to its 

junction with Highway 89; east and 

south along Highway 89 to Main Street 

Greenville; north and east to its junction 

with North Valley Road; south to its 

junction of Diamond Mountain Road; 

north and east to its junction with North 

Arm Road; south and west to the 

junction of North Valley Road; south to 

the junction with Arlington Road (A22); 

west to the junction of Highway 89; 

south and west to the junction of 

Highway 70; east on Highway 70 to 

Highway 395; south and east on 

Highway 395 to the point of intersection 

with the California-Nevada State line; 

north along the California-Nevada State 

line to the junction of the CaliforniaNevada-Oregon State lines; west along 

the California-Oregon State line to the 

point of origin. 

Colorado River Zone: Those portions 

of San Bernardino, Riverside, and 

Imperial Counties east of a line 

extending from the Nevada State line 

south along U.S. 95 to Vidal Junction; 

south on a road known as ‘‘Aqueduct 

Road’’ in San Bernardino County 

through the town of Rice to the San 

Bernardino-Riverside County line; south 

on a road known in Riverside County as 

the ‘‘Desert Center to Rice Road’’ to the 

town of Desert Center; east 31 miles on 

I–10 to the Wiley Well Road; south on 

this road to Wiley Well; southeast along 

the Army-Milpitas Road to the Blythe, 

Brawley, Davis Lake intersections; south 

on the Blythe-Brawley paved road to the 

Ogilby and Tumco Mine Road; south on 

this road to U.S. 80; east 7 miles on U.S. 

80 to the Andrade-Algodones Road; 

south on this paved road to the Mexican 

border at Algodones, Mexico. 

Southern Zone: That portion of 

southern California (but excluding the 

Colorado River Zone) south and east of 

a line extending from the Pacific Ocean 

east along the Santa Maria River to CA 

166 near the City of Santa Maria; east on 

CA 166 to CA 99; south on CA 99 to the 

crest of the Tehachapi Mountains at 

Tejon Pass; east and north along the 

crest of the Tehachapi Mountains to CA 

178 at Walker Pass; east on CA 178 to 

U.S. 395 at the town of Inyokern; south 

on U.S. 395 to CA 58; east on CA 58 to 

I–15; east on I–15 to CA 127; north on 

CA 127 to the Nevada State line. 

Southern San Joaquin Valley 

Temporary Zone: All of Kings and 

Tulare Counties and that portion of 

Kern County north of the Southern 

Zone. 

Balance-of-State Zone: The remainder 

of California not included in the 

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River Zones, and the Southern San 

Joaquin Valley Temporary Zone. 

Idaho 

Zone 1: Includes all lands and waters 

within the Fort Hall Indian Reservation, 

including private inholdings; Bannock 

County; Bingham County, except that 

portion within the Blackfoot Reservoir 

drainage; and Power County east of ID 

37 and ID 39. 

Zone 2: Includes the following 

Counties or portions of Counties: 

Adams; Bear Lake; Benewah; Bingham 

within the Blackfoot Reservoir drainage; 

Blaine; Bonner; Bonneville; Boundary; 

Butte; Camas; Caribou except the Fort 

Hall Indian Reservation; Cassia within 

the Minidoka National Wildlife Refuge; 

Clark; Clearwater; Custer; Elmore within 

the Camas Creek drainage; Franklin; 

Fremont; Idaho; Jefferson; Kootenai; 

Latah; Lemhi; Lewis; Madison; Nez 

Perce; Oneida; Power within the 

Minidoka National Wildlife Refuge; 

Shoshone; Teton; and Valley Counties. 

Zone 3: Includes the following 

Counties or portions of Counties: Ada; 

Boise; Canyon; Cassia except within the 

Minidoka National Wildlife Refuge; 

Elmore except the Camas Creek 

drainage; Gem; Gooding; Jerome; 

Lincoln; Minidoka; Owyhee; Payette; 

Power west of ID 37 and ID 39 except 

that portion within the Minidoka 

National Wildlife Refuge; Twin Falls; 

and Washington Counties. 

Nevada 

Lincoln and Clark County Zone: All of 

Clark and Lincoln Counties. 

Remainder-of-the-State Zone: The 

remainder of Nevada. 

Oregon 

Zone 1: Clatsop, Tillamook, Lincoln, 

Lane, Douglas, Coos, Curry, Josephine, 

Jackson, Linn, Benton, Polk, Marion, 

Yamhill, Washington, Columbia, 

Multnomah, Clackamas, Hood River, 

Wasco, Sherman, Gilliam, Morrow and 

Umatilla Counties. 

Columbia Basin Mallard Management 

Unit: Gilliam, Morrow, and Umatilla 

Counties. 

Zone 2: The remainder of the State. 

Utah 

Zone 1: All of Box Elder, Cache, 

Daggett, Davis, Duchesne, Morgan, Rich, 

Salt Lake, Summit, Unitah, Utah, 

Wasatch, and Weber Counties, and that 

part of Toole County north of I–80. 

Zone 2: The remainder of Utah. 

Washington 

East Zone: All areas east of the Pacific 

Crest Trail and east of the Big White 

Salmon River in Klickitat County. 

Columbia Basin Mallard Management 

Unit: Same as East Zone. 

West Zone: All areas to the west of the 

East Zone. 

Wyoming 

Snake River Zone: Beginning at the 

south boundary of Yellowstone National 

Park and the Continental Divide; south 

along the Continental Divide to Union 

Pass and the Union Pass Road (U.S.F.S. 

Road 600); west and south along the 

Union Pass Road to U.S.F.S. Road 605; 

south along U.S.F.S. Road 605 to the 

Bridger-Teton National Forest boundary; 

along the national forest boundary to the 

Idaho State line; north along the Idaho 

State line to the south boundary of 

Yellowstone National Park; east along 

the Yellowstone National Park boundary 

to the Continental Divide. 

Balance of State Zone: Balance of the 

Pacific Flyway in Wyoming outside the 

Snake River Zone. 

Geese 

Atlantic Flyway 

Connecticut 

AP Unit: Litchfield County and the 

portion of Hartford County west of a 

line beginning at the Massachusetts 

border in Suffield and extending south 

along Route 159 to its intersection with 

Route 91 in Hartford, and then 

extending south along Route 91 to its 

intersection with the Hartford/ 

Middlesex County line. 

AFRP Unit: Starting at the 

intersection of I–95 and the Quinnipiac 

River, north on the Quinnipiac River to 

its intersection with I–91, north on I–91 

to I–691, west on I–691 to the Hartford 

County line, and encompassing the rest 

of New Haven County and Fairfield 

County in its entirety. 

NAP H–Unit: All of the rest of the 

State not included in the AP or AFRP 

descriptions above. 

South Zone: Same as for ducks. 

North Zone: Same as for ducks. 

Maryland 

Resident Population (RP) Zone: 

Garrett, Allegany, Washington, 

Frederick, and Montgomery Counties; 

that portion of Prince George’s County 

west of Route 3 and Route 301; that 

portion of Charles County west of Route 

301 to the Virginia State line; and that 

portion of Carroll County west of Route 

31 to the intersection of Route 97, and 

west of Route 97 to the Pennsylvania 

line. 

AP Zone: Remainder of the State. 

Massachusetts 

NAP Zone: Central and Coastal Zones 

(see duck zones). 

AP Zone: The Western Zone (see duck 

zones). 

Special Late Season Area: The Central 

Zone and that portion of the Coastal 

Zone (see duck zones) that lies north of 

the Cape Cod Canal, north to the New 

Hampshire line. 

New Hampshire 

Same zones as for ducks. 

New Jersey 

North: That portion of the State 

within a continuous line that runs east 

along the New York State boundary line 

to the Hudson River; then south along 

the New York State boundary to its 

intersection with Route 440 at Perth 

Amboy; then west on Route 440 to its 

intersection with Route 287; then west 

along Route 287 to its intersection with 

Route 206 in Bedminster (Exit 18); then 

north along Route 206 to its intersection 

with Route 94: then west along Route 94 

to the tollbridge in Columbia; then north 

along the Pennsylvania State boundary 

in the Delaware River to the beginning 

point. 

South: That portion of the State 

within a continuous line that runs west 

from the Atlantic Ocean at Ship Bottom 

along Route 72 to Route 70; then west 

along Route 70 to Route 206; then south 

along Route 206 to Route 536; then west 

along Route 536 to Route 322; then west 

along Route 322 to Route 55; then south 

along Route 55 to Route 553 (Buck 

Road); then south along Route 553 to 

Route 40; then east along Route 40 to 

route 55; then south along Route 55 to 

Route 552 (Sherman Avenue); then west 

along Route 552 to Carmel Road; then 

south along Carmel Road to Route 49; 

then east along Route 49 to Route 555; 

then south along Route 555 to Route 

553; then east along Route 553 to Route 

649; then north along Route 649 to 

Route 670; then east along Route 670 to 

Route 47; then north along Route 47 to 

Route 548; then east along Route 548 to 

Route 49; then east along Route 49 to 

Route 50; then south along Route 50 to 

Route 9; then south along Route 9 to 

Route 625 (Sea Isle City Boulevard); 

then east along Route 625 to the Atlantic 

Ocean; then north to the beginning 

point. 

New York 

Lake Champlain Goose Area: The 

same as the Lake Champlain Waterfowl 

Hunting Zone, which is that area of New 

York State lying east and north of a 

continuous line extending along Route 

11 from the New York–Canada 

International boundary south to Route 

9B, south along Route 9B to Route 9, 

south along Route 9 to Route 22 south 

of Keeseville, south along Route 22 to 

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the west shore of South Bay along and 

around the shoreline of South Bay to 

Route 22 on the east shore of South Bay, 

southeast along Route 22 to Route 4, 

northeast along Route 4 to the New 

York-Vermont boundary. 

Northeast Goose Area: The same as 

the Northeastern Waterfowl Hunting 

Zone, which is that area of New York 

State lying north of a continuous line 

extending from Lake Ontario east along 

the north shore of the Salmon River to 

Interstate 81, south along Interstate 

Route 81 to Route 31, east along Route 

31 to Route 13, north along Route 13 to 

Route 49, east along Route 49 to Route 

365, east along Route 365 to Route 28, 

east along Route 28 to Route 29, east 

along Route 29 to Interstate Route 87, 

north along Interstate Route 87 to Route 

9 (at Exit 20), north along Route 9 to 

Route 149, east along Route 149 to 

Route 4, north along Route 4 to the New 

York-Vermont boundary, exclusive of 

the Lake Champlain Zone. 

East Central Goose Area: That area of 

New York State lying inside of a 

continuous line extending from 

Interstate Route 81 in Cicero, east along 

Route 31 to Route 13, north along Route 

13 to Route 49, east along Route 49 to 

Route 365, east along Route 365 to 

Route 28, east along Route 28 to Route 

29, east along Route 29 to Route 147 at 

Kimball Corners, south along Route 147 

to Schenectady County Route 40 (West 

Glenville Road), west along Route 40 to 

Touareuna Road, south along Touareuna 

Road to Schenectady County Route 59, 

south along Route 59 to State Route 5, 

east along Route 5 to the Lock 9 bridge, 

southwest along the Lock 9 bridge to 

Route 5S, southeast along Route 5S to 

Schenectady County Route 58, 

southwest along Route 58 to the NYS 

Thruway, south along the Thruway to 

Route 7, southwest along Route 7 to 

Schenectady County Route 103, south 

along Route 103 to Route 406, east along 

Route 406 to Schenectady County Route 

99 (Windy Hill Road), south along Route 

99 to Dunnsville Road, south along 

Dunnsville Road to Route 397, 

southwest along Route 397 to Route 146 

at Altamont, west along Route 146 to 

Albany County Route 252, northwest 

along Route 252 to Schenectady County 

Route 131, north along Route 131 to 

Route 7, west along Route 7 to Route 10 

at Richmondville, south on Route 10 to 

Route 23 at Stamford, west along Route 

23 to Route 7 in Oneonta, southwest 

along Route 7 to Route 79 to Interstate 

Route 88 near Harpursville, west along 

Route 88 to Interstate Route 81, north 

along Route 81 to the point of 

beginning. 

West Central Goose Area: That area of 

New York State lying within a 

continuous line beginning at the point 

where the northerly extension of Route 

269 (County Line Road on the NiagaraOrleans County boundary) meets the 

International boundary with Canada, 

south to the shore of Lake Ontario at the 

eastern boundary of Golden Hill State 

Park, south along the extension of Route 

269 and Route 269 to Route 104 at 

Jeddo, west along Route 104 to Niagara 

County Route 271, south along Route 

271 to Route 31E at Middleport, south 

along Route 31E to Route 31, west along 

Route 31 to Griswold Street, south along 

Griswold Street to Ditch Road, south 

along Ditch Road to Foot Road, south 

along Foot Road to the north bank of 

Tonawanda Creek, west along the north 

bank of Tonawanda Creek to Route 93, 

south along Route 93 to Route 5, east 

along Route 5 to Crittenden-Murrays 

Corners Road, south on CrittendenMurrays Corners Road to the NYS 

Thruway, east along the Thruway 90 to 

Route 98 (at Thruway Exit 48) in 

Batavia, south along Route 98 to Route 

20, east along Route 20 to Route 19 in 

Pavilion Center, south along Route 19 to 

Route 63, southeast along Route 63 to 

Route 246, south along Route 246 to 

Route 39 in Perry, northeast along Route 

39 to Route 20A, northeast along Route 

20A to Route 20, east along Route 20 to 

Route 364 (near Canandaigua), south 

and east along Route 364 to Yates 

County Route 18 (Italy Valley Road), 

southwest along Route 18 to Yates 

County Route 34, east along Route 34 to 

Yates County Route 32, south along 

Route 32 to Steuben County Route 122, 

south along Route 122 to Route 53, 

south along Route 53 to Steuben County 

Route 74, east along Route 74 to Route 

54A (near Pulteney), south along Route 

54A to Steuben County Route 87, east 

along Route 87 to Steuben County Route 

96, east along Route 96 to Steuben 

County Route 114, east along Route 114 

to Schuyler County Route 23, east and 

southeast along Route 23 to Schuyler 

County Route 28, southeast along Route 

28 to Route 409 at Watkins Glen, south 

along Route 409 to Route 14, south 

along Route 14 to Route 224 at Montour 

Falls, east along Route 224 to Route 228 

in Odessa, north along Route 228 to 

Route 79 in Mecklenburg, east along 

Route 79 to Route 366 in Ithaca, 

northeast along Route 366 to Route 13, 

northeast along Route 13 to Interstate 

Route 81 in Cortland, north along Route 

81 to the north shore of the Salmon 

River to shore of Lake Ontario, 

extending generally northwest in a 

straight line to the nearest point of the 

International boundary with Canada, 

south and west along the International 

boundary to the point of beginning. 

Hudson Valley Goose Area: That area 

of New York State lying within a 

continuous line extending from Route 4 

at the New York-Vermont boundary, 

west and south along Route 4 to Route 

149 at Fort Ann, west on Route 149 to 

Route 9, south along Route 9 to 

Interstate Route 87 (at Exit 20 in Glens 

Falls), south along Route 87 to Route 29, 

west along Route 29 to Route 147 at 

Kimball Corners, south along Route 147 

to Schenectady County Route 40 (West 

Glenville Road), west along Route 40 to 

Touareuna Road, south along Touareuna 

Road to Schenectady County Route 59, 

south along Route 59 to State Route 5, 

east along Route 5 to the Lock 9 bridge, 

southwest along the Lock 9 bridge to 

Route 5S, southeast along Route 5S to 

Schenectady County Route 58, 

southwest along Route 58 to the NYS 

Thruway, south along the Thruway to 

Route 7, southwest along Route 7 to 

Schenectady County Route 103, south 

along Route 103 to Route 406, east along 

Route 406 to Schenectady County Route 

99 (Windy Hill Road), south along Route 

99 to Dunnsville Road, south along 

Dunnsville Road to Route 397, 

southwest along Route 397 to Route 146 

at Altamont, southeast along Route 146 

to Main Street in Altamont, west along 

Main Street to Route 156, southeast 

along Route 156 to Albany County 

Route 307, southeast along Route 307 to 

Route 85A, southwest along Route 85A 

to Route 85, south along Route 85 to 

Route 443, southeast along Route 443 to 

Albany County Route 301 at Clarksville, 

southeast along Route 301 to Route 32, 

south along Route 32 to Route 23 at 

Cairo, west along Route 23 to Joseph 

Chadderdon Road, southeast along 

Joseph Chadderdon Road to Hearts 

Content Road (Greene County Route 31), 

southeast along Route 31 to Route 32, 

south along Route 32 to Greene County 

Route 23A, east along Route 23A to 

Interstate Route 87 (the NYS Thruway), 

south along Route 87 to Route 28 (Exit 

19) near Kingston, northwest on Route 

28 to Route 209, southwest on Route 

209 to the New York-Pennsylvania 

boundary, southeast along the New 

York-Pennsylvania boundary to the New 

York-New Jersey boundary, southeast 

along the New York-New Jersey 

boundary to Route 210 near Greenwood 

Lake, northeast along Route 210 to 

Orange County Route 5, northeast along 

Orange County Route 5 to Route 105 in 

the Village of Monroe, east and north 

along Route 105 to Route 32, northeast 

along Route 32 to Orange County Route 

107 (Quaker Avenue), east along Route 

107 to Route 9W, north along Route 9W 

to the south bank of Moodna Creek, 

southeast along the south bank of 

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Moodna Creek to the New WindsorCornwall town boundary, northeast 

along the New Windsor-Cornwall town 

boundary to the Orange-Dutchess 

County boundary (middle of the Hudson 

River), north along the county boundary 

to Interstate Route 84, east along Route 

84 to the Dutchess-Putnam County 

boundary, east along the county 

boundary to the New York-Connecticut 

boundary, north along the New YorkConnecticut boundary to the New YorkMassachusetts boundary, north along 

the New York-Massachusetts boundary 

to the New York-Vermont boundary, 

north to the point of beginning. 

Eastern Long Island Goose Area (NAP 

High Harvest Area): That area of Suffolk 

County lying east of a continuous line 

extending due south from the New 

York-Connecticut boundary to the 

northernmost end of Roanoke Avenue in 

the Town of Riverhead; then south on 

Roanoke Avenue (which becomes 

County Route 73) to State Route 25; then 

west on Route 25 to Peconic Avenue; 

then south on Peconic Avenue to 

County Route (CR) 104 (Riverleigh 

Avenue); then south on CR 104 to CR 31 

(Old Riverhead Road); then south on CR 

31 to Oak Street; then south on Oak 

Street to Potunk Lane; then west on 

Stevens Lane; then south on Jessup 

Avenue (in Westhampton Beach) to 

Dune Road (CR 89); then due south to 

international waters. 

Western Long Island Goose Area (RP 

Area): That area of Westchester County 

and its tidal waters southeast of 

Interstate Route 95 and that area of 

Nassau and Suffolk Counties lying west 

of a continuous line extending due 

south from the New York-Connecticut 

boundary to the northernmost end of the 

Sunken Meadow State Parkway; then 

south on the Sunken Meadow Parkway 

to the Sagtikos State Parkway; then 

south on the Sagtikos Parkway to the 

Robert Moses State Parkway; then south 

on the Robert Moses Parkway to its 

southernmost end; then due south to 

international waters. 

Central Long Island Goose Area (NAP 

Low Harvest Area): That area of Suffolk 

County lying between the Western and 

Eastern Long Island Goose Areas, as 

defined above. 

South Goose Area: The remainder of 

New York State, excluding New York 

City. 

Special Late Canada Goose Area: That 

area of the Central Long Island Goose 

Area lying north of State Route 25A and 

west of a continuous line extending 

northward from State Route 25A along 

Randall Road (near Shoreham) to North 

Country Road, then east to Sound Road 

and then north to Long Island Sound 

and then due north to the New YorkConnecticut boundary. 

North Carolina 

SJBP Hunt Zone: Includes the 

following Counties or portions of 

Counties: Anson, Cabarrus, Chatham, 

Davidson, Durham, Halifax (that portion 

east of NC 903), Montgomery (that 

portion west of NC 109), Northampton, 

Richmond (that portion south of NC 73 

and west of US 220 and north of US 74), 

Rowan, Stanly, Union, and Wake. 

RP Hunt Zone: Includes the following 

Counties or portions of Counties: 

Alamance, Alleghany, Alexander, Ashe, 

Avery, Beaufort, Bertie (that portion 

south and west of a line formed by NC 

45 at the Washington Co. line to US 17 

in Midway, US 17 in Midway to US 13 

in Windsor, US 13 in Windsor to the 

Hertford Co. line), Bladen, Brunswick, 

Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Carteret, 

Caswell, Catawba, Cherokee, Clay, 

Cleveland, Columbus, Craven, 

Cumberland, Davie, Duplin, Edgecombe, 

Forsyth, Franklin, Gaston, Gates, 

Graham, Granville, Greene, Guilford, 

Halifax (that portion west of NC 903), 

Harnett, Haywood, Henderson, Hertford, 

Hoke, Iredell, Jackson, Johnston, Jones, 

Lee, Lenoir, Lincoln, McDowell, Macon, 

Madison, Martin, Mecklenburg, 

Mitchell, Montgomery (that portion that 

is east of NC 109), Moore, Nash, New 

Hanover, Onslow, Orange, Pamlico, 

Pender, Person, Pitt, Polk, Randolph, 

Richmond (all of the county with 

exception of that portion that is south of 

NC 73 and west of US 220 and north of 

US 74), Robeson, Rockingham, 

Rutherford, Sampson, Scotland, Stokes, 

Surry, Swain, Transylvania, Vance, 

Warren, Watauga, Wayne, Wilkes, 

Wilson, Yadkin, and Yancey. 

Northeast Hunt Unit: Includes the 

following Counties or portions of 

Counties: Bertie (that portion north and 

east of a line formed by NC 45 at the 

Washington County line to US 17 in 

Midway, US 17 in Midway to US 13 in 

Windsor, US 13 in Windsor to the 

Hertford Co. line), Camden, Chowan, 

Currituck, Dare, Hyde, Pasquotank, 

Perquimans, Tyrrell, and Washington. 

Pennsylvania 

Resident Canada Goose Zone: All of 

Pennsylvania except for SJBP Zone and 

the area east of route SR 97 from the 

Maryland State Line to the intersection 

of SR 194, east of SR 194 to intersection 

of US Route 30, south of US Route 30 

to SR 441, east of SR 441 to SR 743, east 

of SR 743 to intersection of I–81, east of 

I–81 to intersection of I–80, and south 

of I–80 to the New Jersey State line. 

SJBP Zone: The area north of I–80 and 

west of I–79 including in the city of Erie 

west of Bay Front Parkway to and 

including the Lake Erie Duck zone (Lake 

Erie, Presque Isle, and the area within 

150 yards of the Lake Erie Shoreline). 

AP Zone: The area east of route SR 97 

from Maryland State Line to the 

intersection of SR 194, east of SR 194 to 

intersection of US Route 30, south of US 

Route 30 to SR 441, east of SR 441 to 

SR 743, east of SR 743 to intersection of 

I–81, east of I–81 to intersection of I–80, 

south of I–80 to New Jersey State line. 

Rhode Island 

Special Area for Canada Geese: Kent 

and Providence Counties and portions 

of the towns of Exeter and North 

Kingston within Washington County 

(see State regulations for detailed 

descriptions). 

South Carolina 

Canada Goose Area: Statewide except 

for Clarendon County, that portion of 

Orangeburg County north of SC 

Highway 6, and that portion of Berkeley 

County north of SC Highway 45 from 

the Orangeburg County line to the 

junction of SC Highway 45 and State 

Road S–8–31 and that portion west of 

the Santee Dam. 

Vermont 

Same zones as for ducks. 

Virginia 

AP Zone: The area east and south of 

the following line—the Stafford County 

line from the Potomac River west to 

Interstate 95 at Fredericksburg, then 

south along Interstate 95 to Petersburg, 

then Route 460 (SE) to City of Suffolk, 

then south along Route 32 to the North 

Carolina line. 

SJBP Zone: The area to the west of the 

AP Zone boundary and east of the 

following line: the ‘‘Blue Ridge’’ 

(mountain spine) at the West VirginiaVirginia Border (Loudoun CountyClarke County line) south to Interstate 

64 (the Blue Ridge line follows county 

borders along the western edge of 

Loudoun-Fauquier-RappahannockMadison-Greene-Albemarle and into 

Nelson Counties), then east along 

Interstate Rt. 64 to Route 15, then south 

along Rt. 15 to the North Carolina line. 

RP Zone: The remainder of the State 

west of the SJBP Zone. 

West Virginia 

Same zones as for ducks. 

Mississippi Flyway 

Alabama 

Same zones as for ducks, but in 

addition: 

SJBP Zone: That portion of Morgan 

County east of U.S. Highway 31, north 

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of State Highway 36, and west of U.S. 

231; that portion of Limestone County 

south of U.S. 72; and that portion of 

Madison County south of Swancott 

Road and west of Triana Road. 

Arkansas 

Northwest Zone: Baxter, Benton, 

Boone, Carroll, Conway, Crawford, 

Faulkner, Franklin, Johnson, Logan, 

Madison, Marion, Newton, Perry, Pope, 

Pulaski, Searcy, Sebastian, Scott, Van 

Buren, Washington, and Yell Counties. 

Illinois 

Same zones as for ducks. 

Indiana 

Same zones as for ducks but in 

addition: 

Special Canada Goose Seasons 

Indiana Late Canada Goose Season 

Zone: That part of the State 

encompassed by the following Counties: 

Steuben, Lagrange, Elkhart, St. Joseph, 

La Porte, Starke, Marshall, Kosciusko, 

Noble, De Kalb, Allen, Whitley, 

Huntington, Wells, Adams, Boone, 

Hamilton, Madison, Hendricks, Marion, 

Hancock, Morgan, Johnson, Shelby, 

Vermillion, Parke, Vigo, Clay, Sullivan, 

and Greene. 

Iowa 

Same zones as for ducks. 

Kentucky 

Western Zone: That portion of the 

State west of a line beginning at the 

Tennessee State line at Fulton and 

extending north along the Purchase 

Parkway to Interstate Highway 24, east 

along I–24 to U.S. Highway 641, north 

along U.S. 641 to U.S. 60, northeast 

along U.S. 60 to the Henderson County 

line, then south, east, and northerly 

along the Henderson County line to the 

Indiana State line. 

Ballard Reporting Area: That area 

encompassed by a line beginning at the 

northwest city limits of Wickliffe in 

Ballard County and extending westward 

to the middle of the Mississippi River, 

north along the Mississippi River and 

along the low-water mark of the Ohio 

River on the Illinois shore to the 

Ballard-McCracken County line, south 

along the county line to Kentucky 

Highway 358, south along Kentucky 358 

to U.S. Highway 60 at LaCenter, then 

southwest along U.S. 60 to the northeast 

city limits of Wickliffe. 

Henderson-Union Reporting Area: 

Henderson County and that portion of 

Union County within the Western Zone. 

Pennyroyal/Coalfield Zone: Butler, 

Daviess, Ohio, Simpson, and Warren 

Counties and all counties lying west to 

the boundary of the Western Goose 

Zone. 

Michigan 

(a) North Zone—Same as North duck 

zone. 

(b) Middle Zone—Same as Middle 

duck zone. 

(c) South Zone—Same as South duck 

zone. 

Tuscola/Huron Goose Management 

Unit (GMU): Those portions of Tuscola 

and Huron Counties bounded on the 

south by Michigan Highway 138 and 

Bay City Road, on the east by Colwood 

and Bay Port Roads, on the north by 

Kilmanagh Road and a line extending 

directly west off the end of Kilmanagh 

Road into Saginaw Bay to the west 

boundary, and on the west by the 

Tuscola-Bay County line and a line 

extending directly north off the end of 

the Tuscola-Bay County line into 

Saginaw Bay to the north boundary. 

Allegan County GMU: That area 

encompassed by a line beginning at the 

junction of 136th Avenue and Interstate 

Highway 196 in Lake Town Township 

and extending easterly along 136th 

Avenue to Michigan Highway 40, 

southerly along Michigan 40 through 

the city of Allegan to 108th Avenue in 

Trowbridge Township, westerly along 

108th Avenue to 46th Street, northerly 

along 46th Street to 109th Avenue, 

westerly along 109th Avenue to I–196 in 

Casco Township, then northerly along 

I–196 to the point of beginning. 

Saginaw County GMU: That portion 

of Saginaw County bounded by 

Michigan Highway 46 on the north; 

Michigan 52 on the west; Michigan 57 

on the south; and Michigan 13 on the 

east. 

Muskegon Wastewater GMU: That 

portion of Muskegon County within the 

boundaries of the Muskegon County 

wastewater system, east of the 

Muskegon State Game Area, in sections 

5, 6, 7, 8, 17, 18, 19, 20, 29, 30, and 32, 

T10N R14W, and sections 1, 2, 10, 11, 

12, 13, 14, 24, and 25, T10N R15W, as 

posted. 

Special Canada Goose Seasons 

Southern Michigan Late Season 

Canada Goose Zone: Same as the South 

Duck Zone excluding Tuscola/Huron 

Goose Management Unit (GMU), 

Allegan County GMU, Saginaw County 

GMU, and Muskegon Wastewater GMU. 

Minnesota 

Rochester Goose Zone: That part of 

the State within the following described 

boundary: 

Beginning at the intersection of State 

Trunk Highway (STH) 247 and County 

State Aid Highway (CSAH) 4, Wabasha 

County; thence along CSAH 4 to CSAH 

10, Olmsted County; thence along CSAH 

10 to CSAH 9, Olmsted County; thence 

along CSAH 9 to CSAH 22, Winona 

County; thence along CSAH 22 to STH 

74; thence along STH 74 to STH 30; 

thence along STH 30 to CSAH 13, Dodge 

County; thence along CSAH 13 to U.S. 

Highway 14; thence along U.S. Highway 

14 to STH 57; thence along STH 57 to 

CSAH 24, Dodge County; thence along 

CSAH 24 to CSAH 13, Olmsted County; 

thence along CSAH 13 to U.S. Highway 

52; thence along U.S. Highway 52 to 

CSAH 12, Olmsted County; thence along 

CSAH 12 to STH 247; thence along STH 

247 to the point of beginning. 

Missouri 

Same zones as for ducks. 

Ohio 

Same zones as for ducks but in 

addition: 

North Zone 

Lake Erie Zone: That portion of the 

North Duck Zone encompassed by and 

north and east of a line beginning in 

Lucas County at the Michigan State line 

on I–75, and extending south along I–75 

to I–280, south along I–280 to I–80, and 

east along I– 80 to the Pennsylvania 

State line in Trumbull County. 

Tennessee 

Southwest Zone: That portion of the 

State south of State Highways 20 and 

104, and west of U.S. Highways 45 and 

45W. 

Northwest Zone: Lake, Obion, and 

Weakley Counties and those portions of 

Gibson and Dyer Counties not included 

in the Southwest Tennessee Zone. 

Kentucky/Barkley Lakes Zone: That 

portion of the State bounded on the 

west by the eastern boundaries of the 

Northwest and Southwest Zones and on 

the east by State Highway 13 from the 

Alabama State line to Clarksville and 

U.S. Highway 79 from Clarksville to the 

Kentucky State line. 

Wisconsin 

Same zones as for ducks but in 

addition: 

Horicon Zone: That area encompassed 

by a line beginning at the intersection of 

State Highway 21 and the Fox River in 

Winnebago County and extending 

westerly along State 21 to the west 

boundary of Winnebago County, 

southerly along the west boundary of 

Winnebago County to the north 

boundary of Green Lake County, 

westerly along the north boundaries of 

Green Lake and Marquette Counties to 

State 22, southerly along State 22 to 

State 33, westerly along State 33 to 

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Interstate Highway 39, southerly along 

Interstate Highway 39 to Interstate 

Highway 90/94, southerly along I–90/94 

to State 60, easterly along State 60 to 

State 83, northerly along State 83 to 

State 175, northerly along State 175 to 

State 33, easterly along State 33 to U.S. 

Highway 45, northerly along U.S. 45 to 

the east shore of the Fond Du Lac River, 

northerly along the east shore of the 

Fond Du Lac River to Lake Winnebago, 

northerly along the western shoreline of 

Lake Winnebago to the Fox River, then 

westerly along the Fox River to State 21. 

Collins Zone: That area encompassed 

by a line beginning at the intersection of 

Hilltop Road and Collins Marsh Road in 

Manitowoc County and extending 

westerly along Hilltop Road to Humpty 

Dumpty Road, southerly along Humpty 

Dumpty Road to Poplar Grove Road, 

easterly along Poplar Grove Road to 

Rockea Road, southerly along Rockea 

Road to County Highway JJ, 

southeasterly along County JJ to Collins 

Road, southerly along Collins Road to 

the Manitowoc River, southeasterly 

along the Manitowoc River to Quarry 

Road, northerly along Quarry Road to 

Einberger Road, northerly along 

Einberger Road to Moschel Road, 

westerly along Moschel Road to Collins 

Marsh Road, northerly along Collins 

Marsh Road to Hilltop Road. 

Exterior Zone: That portion of the 

State not included in the Horicon or 

Collins Zones. 

Mississippi River Subzone: That area 

encompassed by a line beginning at the 

intersection of the Burlington Northern 

& Santa Fe Railway and the Illinois 

State line in Grant County and 

extending northerly along the 

Burlington Northern & Santa Fe Railway 

to the city limit of Prescott in Pierce 

County, then west along the Prescott 

city limit to the Minnesota State line. 

Brown County Subzone: That area 

encompassed by a line beginning at the 

intersection of the Fox River with Green 

Bay in Brown County and extending 

southerly along the Fox River to State 

Highway 29, northwesterly along State 

29 to the Brown County line, south, 

east, and north along the Brown County 

line to Green Bay, due west to the 

midpoint of the Green Bay Ship 

Channel, then southwesterly along the 

Green Bay Ship Channel to the Fox 

River. 

Central Flyway 

Colorado (Central Flyway Portion) 

Northern Front Range Area: All areas 

in Boulder, Larimer and Weld Counties 

from the Continental Divide east along 

the Wyoming border to U.S. 85, south 

on U.S. 85 to the Adams County line, 

and all lands in Adams, Arapahoe, 

Broomfield, Clear Creek, Denver, 

Douglas, Gilpin, and Jefferson Counties. 

North Park Area: Jackson County. 

South Park and San Luis Valley Area: 

All of Alamosa, Chaffee, Conejos, 

Costilla, Custer, Fremont, Lake, Park, 

Rio Grande and Teller Counties, and 

those portions of Saguache, Mineral and 

Hinsdale Counties east of the 

Continental Divide. 

Remainder: Remainder of the Central 

Flyway portion of Colorado. 

Eastern Colorado Late Light Goose 

Area: That portion of the State east of 

Interstate Highway 25. 

Nebraska 

Dark Geese 

Niobrara Unit: That area contained 

within and bounded by the intersection 

of the South Dakota State line and the 

Cherry County line, south along the 

Cherry County line to the Niobrara 

River, east to the Norden Road, south on 

the Norden Road to U.S. Hwy 20, east 

along U.S. Hwy 20 to NE Hwy 137, 

north along NE Hwy 137 to the Niobrara 

River, east along the Niobrara River to 

the Boyd County line, north along the 

Boyd County line to the South Dakota 

State line. Where the Niobrara River 

forms the boundary, both banks of the 

river are included in the Niobrara Unit. 

East Unit: That area north and east of 

U.S. 281 at the Kansas–Nebraska State 

line, north to Giltner Road (near 

Doniphan), east to NE 14, north to NE 

66, east to U.S. 81, north to NE 22, west 

to NE 14 north to NE 91, east to U.S. 

275, south to U.S. 77, south to NE 91, 

east to U.S. 30, east to Nebraska-Iowa 

State line. 

Platte River Unit: That area south and 

west of U.S. 281 at the Kansas-Nebraska 

State line, north to Giltner Road (near 

Doniphan), east to NE 14, north to NE 

66, east to U.S. 81, north to NE 22, west 

to NE 14 north to NE 91, west along NE 

91 to NE 11, north to the Holt County 

line, west along the northern border of 

Garfield, Loup, Blaine and Thomas 

Counties to the Hooker County line, 

south along the Thomas–Hooker County 

lines to the McPherson County line, east 

along the south border of Thomas 

County to the western line of Custer 

County, south along the Custer–Logan 

County line to NE 92, west to U.S. 83, 

north to NE 92, west to NE 61, north 

along NE 61 to NE 2, west along NE 2 

to the corner formed by Garden-GrantSheridan Counties, west along the north 

border of Garden, Morrill, and Scotts 

Bluff Counties to the intersection of the 

Interstate Canal, west to Wyoming State 

line. 

North–Central Unit: The remainder of 

the State. 

Light Geese 

Rainwater Basin Light Goose Area 

(West): The area bounded by the 

junction of U.S. 283 and U.S. 30 at 

Lexington, east on U.S. 30 to U.S. 281, 

south on U.S. 281 to NE 4, west on NE 

4 to U.S. 34, continue west on U.S. 34 

to U.S. 283, then north on U.S. 283 to 

the beginning. 

Rainwater Basin Light Goose Area 

(East): The area bounded by the junction 

of U.S. 281 and U.S. 30 at Grand Island, 

north and east on U.S. 30 to NE 14, 

south to NE 66, east to U.S. 81, north to 

NE 92, east on NE 92 to NE 15, south 

on NE 15 to NE 4, west on NE 4 to U.S. 

281, north on U.S. 281 to the beginning. 

Remainder of State: The remainder 

portion of Nebraska. 

New Mexico (Central Flyway Portion) 

Dark Geese 

Middle Rio Grande Valley Unit: 

Sierra, Socorro, and Valencia Counties. 

Remainder: The remainder of the 

Central Flyway portion of New Mexico. 

North Dakota 

Missouri River Canada Goose Zone: 

The area within and bounded by a line 

starting where ND Hwy 6 crosses the 

South Dakota border; thence north on 

ND Hwy 6 to I–94; thence west on I–94 

to ND Hwy 49; thence north on ND Hwy 

49 to ND Hwy 200; thence north on 

Mercer County Rd. 21 to the section line 

between sections 8 and 9 (T146N– 

R87W); thence north on that section line 

to the southern shoreline to Lake 

Sakakawea; thence east along the 

southern shoreline (including Mallard 

Island) of Lake Sakakawea to U.S. Hwy 

83; thence south on U.S. Hwy 83 to ND 

Hwy 200; thence east on ND Hwy 200 

to ND Hwy 41; thence south on ND Hwy 

41 to U.S. Hwy 83; thence south on U.S. 

Hwy 83 to I–94; thence east on I–94 to 

U.S. Hwy 83; thence south on U.S. Hwy 

83 to the South Dakota border; thence 

west along the South Dakota border to 

ND Hwy 6. 

Rest of State: Remainder of North 

Dakota. 

South Dakota 

Canada Geese 

Unit 1: Remainder of South Dakota. 

Unit 2: Gregory, Hughes, Lyman, 

Perkins, and Stanley Counties; that 

portion of Potter County west of U.S. 

Highway 83; that portion of Sully 

County west of U.S. Highway 83; that 

portion of Bon Homme, Brule, Buffalo, 

Charles Mix, and Hyde County south 

and west of a line beginning at the 

Hughes-Hyde County line on SD 

Highway 34, east to Lees Boulevard, 

southeast to SD 34, east 7 miles to 350th 

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Avenue, south to I–90, south and east 

on SD Highway 50 to Geddes, east on 

285th Street to U.S. Highway 281, south 

on U.S. Highway 281 to SD 50, east and 

south on SD 50 to the Bon HommeYankton County boundary; that portion 

of Fall River County east of SD Highway 

71 and U.S. Highway 385; that portion 

of Custer County east of SD Highway 79 

and south of French Creek; that portion 

of Dewey County south of BIA Road 8, 

BIA Road 9, and the section of U.S. 212 

east of BIA Road 8 junction. 

Unit 3: Bennett County. 

Texas 

Northeast Goose Zone: That portion of 

Texas lying east and north of a line 

beginning at the Texas-Oklahoma border 

at U.S. 81, then continuing south to 

Bowie and then southeasterly along U.S. 

81 and U.S. 287 to I–35W and 

I–35 to the juncture with I–10 in San 

Antonio, then east on I–10 to the TexasLouisiana border. 

Southeast Goose Zone: That portion of 

Texas lying east and south of a line 

beginning at the International Toll 

Bridge at Laredo, then continuing north 

following I–35 to the juncture with I–10 

in San Antonio, then easterly along I– 

10 to the Texas-Louisiana border. 

West Goose Zone: The remainder of 

the State. 

Wyoming (Central Flyway Portion) 

Dark Geese: 

Zone C1: Converse, Hot Springs, 

Natrona, and Washakie Counties, and 

the portion of Park County east of the 

Shoshone National Forest boundary and 

south of a line beginning where the 

Shoshone National Forest boundary 

crosses Park County Road 8VC, easterly 

along said road to Park County Road 

1AB, easterly along said road to 

Wyoming Highway 120, northerly along 

said highway to Wyoming Highway 294, 

southeasterly along said highway to 

Lane 9, easterly along said lane to the 

town of Powel and Wyoming Highway 

14A, easterly along said highway to the 

Park County and Big Horn County Line. 

Zone C2: Albany, Campbell, Crook, 

Johnson, Laramie, Niobrara, Sheridan, 

and Weston Counties, and that portion 

of Carbon County east of the Continental 

Divide; that portion of Park County west 

of the Shoshone National Forest 

boundary, and that portion of Park 

County north of a line beginning where 

the Shoshone National Forest boundary 

crosses Park County Road 8VC, easterly 

along said road to Park County Road 

1AB, easterly along said road to 

Wyoming Highway 120, northerly along 

said highway to Wyoming Highway 294, 

southeasterly along said highway to 

Lane 9, easterly along said lane to the 

town of Powel and Wyoming Highway 

14A, easterly along said highway to the 

Park County and Big Horn County Line. 

Pacific Flyway 

Arizona 

North Zone: Game Management Units 

1–5, those portions of Game 

Management Units 6 and 8 within 

Coconino County, and Game 

Management Units 7, 9, and 12A. 

South Zone: Those portions of Game 

Management Units 6 and 8 in Yavapai 

County, and Game Management Units 

10 and 12B–45. 

California 

Northeastern Zone: In that portion of 

California lying east and north of a line 

beginning at the intersection of 

Interstate 5 with the California-Oregon 

line; south along Interstate 5 to its 

junction with Walters Lane south of the 

town of Yreka; west along Walters Lane 

to its junction with Easy Street; south 

along Easy Street to the junction with 

Old Highway 99; south along Old 

Highway 99 to the point of intersection 

with Interstate 5 north of the town of 

Weed; south along Interstate 5 to its 

junction with Highway 89; east and 

south along Highway 89 to main street 

Greenville; north and east to its junction 

with North Valley Road; south to its 

junction of Diamond Mountain Road; 

north and east to its junction with North 

Arm Road; south and west to the 

junction of North Valley Road; south to 

the junction with Arlington Road (A22); 

west to the junction of Highway 89; 

south and west to the junction of 

Highway 70; east on Highway 70 to 

Highway 395; south and east on 

Highway 395 to the point of intersection 

with the California-Nevada State line; 

north along the California-Nevada State 

line to the junction of the CaliforniaNevada-Oregon State lines west along 

the California-Oregon State line to the 

point of origin. 

Colorado River Zone: Those portions 

of San Bernardino, Riverside, and 

Imperial Counties east of a line 

extending from the Nevada border south 

along U.S. 95 to Vidal Junction; south 

on a road known as ‘‘Aqueduct Road’’ in 

San Bernardino County through the 

town of Rice to the San BernardinoRiverside County line; south on a road 

known in Riverside County as the 

‘‘Desert Center to Rice Road’’ to the town 

of Desert Center; east 31 miles on I–10 

to the Wiley Well Road; south on this 

road to Wiley Well; southeast along the 

Army-Milpitas Road to the Blythe, 

Brawley, Davis Lake intersections; south 

on the Blythe-Brawley paved road to the 

Ogilby and Tumco Mine Road; south on 

this road to U.S. 80; east 7 miles on U.S. 

80 to the Andrade-Algodones Road; 

south on this paved road to the Mexican 

border at Algodones, Mexico. 

Southern Zone: That portion of 

southern California (but excluding the 

Colorado River Zone) south and east of 

a line extending from the Pacific Ocean 

east along the Santa Maria River to CA 

166 near the City of Santa Maria; east on 

CA 166 to CA 99; south on CA 99 to the 

crest of the Tehachapi Mountains at 

Tejon Pass; east and north along the 

crest of the Tehachapi Mountains to CA 

178 at Walker Pass; east on CA 178 to 

U.S. 395 at the town of Inyokern; south 

on U.S. 395 to CA 58; east on CA 58 to 

I–15; east on I–15 to CA 127; north on 

CA 127 to the Nevada border. 

Imperial County Special Management 

Area: The area bounded by a line 

beginning at Highway 86 and the Navy 

Test Base Road; south on Highway 86 to 

the town of Westmoreland; continue 

through the town of Westmoreland to 

Route S26; east on Route S26 to 

Highway 115; north on Highway 115 to 

Weist Rd.; north on Weist Rd. to 

Flowing Wells Rd.; northeast on 

Flowing Wells Rd. to the Coachella 

Canal; northwest on the Coachella Canal 

to Drop 18; a straight line from Drop 18 

to Frink Rd.; south on Frink Rd. to 

Highway 111; north on Highway 111 to 

Niland Marina Rd.; southwest on Niland 

Marina Rd. to the old Imperial County 

boat ramp and the water line of the 

Salton Sea; from the water line of the 

Salton Sea, a straight line across the 

Salton Sea to the Salinity Control 

Research Facility and the Navy Test 

Base Road; southwest on the Navy Test 

Base Road to the point of beginning. 

Balance-of-State Zone: The remainder 

of California not included in the 

Northeastern, Southern, and the 

Colorado River Zones. 

North Coast Special Management 

Area: The Counties of Del Norte and 

Humboldt. 

Sacramento Valley Special 

Management Area: That area bounded 

by a line beginning at Willows south on 

I–5 to Hahn Road; easterly on Hahn 

Road and the Grimes-Arbuckle Road to 

Grimes; northerly on CA 45 to the 

junction with CA 162; northerly on CA 

45/162 to Glenn; and westerly on CA 

162 to the point of beginning in 

Willows. 

Colorado (Pacific Flyway Portion) 

West Central Area: Archuleta, Delta, 

Dolores, Gunnison, LaPlata, 

Montezuma, Montrose, Ouray, San Juan, 

and San Miguel Counties and those 

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Continental Divide. 

State Area: The remainder of the 

Pacific-Flyway Portion of Colorado. 

Idaho 

Zone 1: Adams, Benewah, Bonner, 

Boundary, Clearwater, Idaho, Kootenai, 

Latah, Lewis, Nez Perce, Shoshone, and 

Valley Counties. 

Zone 2: The Counties of Ada; Boise; 

Canyon; those portions of Elmore north 

and east of I–84, and south and west of 

I–84, west of ID 51, except the Camas 

Creek drainage; Gem; Owyhee west of 

ID 51; Payette; and Washington. 

Zone 3: The Counties of Cassia except 

the Minidoka National Wildlife Refuge; 

those portions of Elmore south of I–84 

east of ID 51, and within the Camas 

Creek drainage; Gooding; Jerome; 

Lincoln; Minidoka; Owyhee east of ID 

51; and Twin Falls. 

Zone 4: The Counties of Bear Lake; 

Bingham within the Blackfoot Reservoir 

drainage; Blaine; Bonneville, Butte; 

Camas; Caribou except the Fort Hall 

Indian Reservation; Cassia within the 

Minidoka National Wildlife Refuge; 

Clark; Custer; Franklin; Fremont; 

Jefferson; Lemhi; Madison; Oneida; and 

Teton. 

Zone 5: All lands and waters within 

the Fort Hall Indian Reservation, 

including private inholdings; Bannock 

County; Bingham County, except that 

portion within the Blackfoot Reservoir 

drainage; and Power County. 

Montana (Pacific Flyway Portion) 

East of the Divide Zone: The Pacific 

Flyway portion of the State located east 

of the Continental Divide. 

West of the Divide Zone: The 

remainder of the Pacific Flyway portion 

of Montana. 

Nevada 

Lincoln Clark County Zone: All of 

Lincoln and Clark Counties. 

Remainder-of-the-State Zone: The 

remainder of Nevada. 

New Mexico (Pacific Flyway Portion) 

North Zone: The Pacific Flyway 

portion of New Mexico located north of 

I–40. 

South Zone: The Pacific Flyway 

portion of New Mexico located south of 

I–40. 

Oregon 

Southwest Zone: Those portions of 

Douglas, Coos, and Curry Counties east 

of Highway 101, and Josephine and 

Jackson Counties. 

South Coast Zone: Those portions of 

Douglas, Coos, and Curry Counties west 

of Highway 101. 

Northwest Special Permit Zone: That 

portion of western Oregon west and 

north of a line running south from the 

Columbia River in Portland along I–5 to 

OR 22 at Salem; then east on OR 22 to 

the Stayton Cutoff; then south on the 

Stayton Cutoff to Stayton and due south 

to the Santiam River; then west along 

the north shore of the Santiam River to 

I–5; then south on I–5 to OR 126 at 

Eugene; then west on OR 126 to 

Greenhill Road; then south on Greenhill 

Road to Crow Road; then west on Crow 

Road to Territorial Hwy; then west on 

Territorial Hwy to OR 126; then west on 

OR 126 to Milepost 19; then north to the 

intersection of the Benton and Lincoln 

County line; then north along the 

western boundary of Benton and Polk 

Counties to the southern boundary of 

Tillamook County; then west along the 

Tillamook County boundary to the 

Pacific Coast. 

Lower Columbia/N. Willamette Valley 

Management Area: Those portions of 

Clatsop, Columbia, Multnomah, and 

Washington Counties within the 

Northwest Special Permit Zone. 

Tillamook County Management Area: 

All of Tillamook County is open to 

goose hunting except for the following 

area—beginning in Cloverdale at Hwy 

101, west on Old Woods Rd to Sand 

Lake Rd at Woods, north on Sand Lake 

Rd to the intersection with McPhillips 

Dr, due west (∼200 yards) from the 

intersection to the Pacific coastline, 

south on the Pacific coastline to 

Neskowin Creek, east along the north 

shores of Neskowin Creek and then 

Hawk Creek to Salem Ave, east on 

Salem Ave in Neskowin to Hawk Ave, 

east on Hawk Ave to Hwy 101, north on 

Hwy 101 at Cloverdale, to the point of 

beginning. 

Northwest Zone: Those portions of 

Clackamas, Lane, Linn, Marion, 

Multnomah, and Washington Counties 

outside of the Northwest Special Permit 

Zone and all of Lincoln County. 

Eastern Zone: Hood River, Wasco, 

Sherman, Gilliam, Morrow, Umatilla, 

Deschutes, Jefferson, Crook, Wheeler, 

Grant, Baker, Union, and Wallowa 

Counties. 

Harney and Lake County Zone: All of 

Harney and Lake Counties. 

Klamath County Zone: All of Klamath 

County. 

Malheur County Zone: All of Malheur 

County. 

Utah 

Northern Utah Zone: All of Cache and 

Rich Counties, and that portion of Box 

Elder County beginning at I–15 and the 

Weber-Box Elder County line; east and 

north along this line to the Weber-Cache 

County line; east along this line to the 

Cache-Rich County line; east and south 

along the Rich County line to the UtahWyoming State line; north along this 

line to the Utah-Idaho State line; west 

on this line to Stone, Idaho-Snowville, 

Utah road; southwest on this road to 

Locomotive Springs Wildlife 

Management Area; east on the county 

road, past Monument Point and across 

Salt Wells Flat, to the intersection with 

Promontory Road; south on Promontory 

Road to a point directly west of the 

northwest corner of the Bear River 

Migratory Bird Refuge boundary; east 

along an imaginary line to the northwest 

corner of the Refuge boundary; south 

and east along the Refuge boundary to 

the southeast corner of the boundary; 

northeast along the boundary to the 

Perry access road; east on the Perry 

access road to I–15; south on I–15 to the 

Weber-Box Elder County line. 

Remainder-of-the-State Zone: The 

remainder of Utah. 

Washington 

Area 1: Skagit, Island, and Snohomish 

Counties. 

Area 2A (SW Quota Zone): Clark 

County, except portions south of the 

Washougal River; Cowlitz County; and 

Wahkiakum County. 

Area 2B (SW Quota Zone): Pacific 

County. 

Area 3: All areas west of the Pacific 

Crest Trail and west of the Big White 

Salmon River that are not included in 

Areas 1, 2A, and 2B. 

Area 4: Adams, Benton, Chelan, 

Douglas, Franklin, Grant, Kittitas, 

Lincoln, Okanogan, Spokane, and Walla 

Walla Counties. 

Area 5: All areas east of the Pacific 

Crest Trail and east of the Big White 

Salmon River that are not included in 

Area 4. 

Brant 

Pacific Flyway 

California 

North Coast Zone: Del Norte, 

Humboldt and Mendocino Counties. 

South Coast Zone: Balance of the 

State. 

Washington 

Puget Sound Zone: Skagit County. 

Coastal Zone: Pacific County. 

Swans 

Central Flyway 

South Dakota: Aurora, Beadle, 

Brookings, Brown, Brule, Buffalo, 

Campbell, Clark, Codington, Davison, 

Deuel, Day, Edmunds, Faulk, Grant, 

Hamlin, Hand, Hanson, Hughes, Hyde, 

Jerauld, Kingsbury, Lake, Marshall, 

McCook, McPherson, Miner, 

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Minnehaha, Moody, Potter, Roberts, 

Sanborn, Spink, Sully, and Walworth 

Counties. 

Pacific Flyway 

Montana (Pacific Flyway Portion) 

Open Area: Cascade, Chouteau, Hill, 

Liberty, and Toole Counties and those 

portions of Pondera and Teton Counties 

lying east of U.S. 287–89. 

Nevada 

Open Area: Churchill, Lyon, and 

Pershing Counties. 

Utah 

Open Area: Those portions of Box 

Elder, Weber, Davis, Salt Lake, and 

Toole Counties lying west of I–15, north 

of I–80, and south of a line beginning 

from the Forest Street exit to the Bear 

River National Wildlife Refuge 

boundary; then north and west along the 

Bear River National Wildlife Refuge 

boundary to the farthest west boundary 

of the Refuge; then west along a line to 

Promontory Road; then north on 

Promontory Road to the intersection of 

SR 83; then north on SR 83 to I–84; then 

north and west on I–84 to State Hwy 30; 

then west on State Hwy 30 to the 

Nevada–Utah State line; then south on 

the Nevada–Utah State line to I–80. 

[FR Doc. 2010–23751 Filed 9–22–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–55–P 

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