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Washington 2015 special hunt drawing results available online

A bull elk manages his harem in Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge, including a cow that Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife researchers had captured and fitted with a radio collar to study the herd’s movements. The state issued 45 special hunting permits for the refuge in the 2014 seasons. Hunters who drew the permits in a lottery are strictly limited to walk-in hunting for a specific period in only a portion of the 18,217-acre refuge south of Cheney. The elk mating season was in full swing when Buck Domitrovich of Cheney took this photo in Turnbull on Sept. 11. “The fall ritual has begun,” he said. “This young five-point bull had about 15 cows with him.”
A bull elk manages his harem in Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge, including a cow that Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife researchers had captured and fitted with a radio collar to study the herd’s movements. The state issued 45 special hunting permits for the refuge in the 2014 seasons. Hunters who drew the permits in a lottery are strictly limited to walk-in hunting for a specific period in only a portion of the 18,217-acre refuge south of Cheney. The elk mating season was in full swing when Buck Domitrovich of Cheney took this photo in Turnbull on Sept. 11. “The fall ritual has begun,” he said. “This young five-point bull had about 15 cows with him.”

HUNTING -- Time for celebration and despair!

Hunters who submitted applications for 2015 special-hunt permits can check the results of this year’s drawing on the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife website.

The results of the random, computerized drawing were verified June 11 and are now available.

Holders of the special permits can hunt at times and locations beyond those authorized by a general hunting license.

This year’s application forms included a range of hunting options for deer, elk, moose, black bears, mountain goats and bighorn sheep, said Nate Pamplin, WDFW wildlife program administrator. Like last year, hunters were allowed to submit applications in multiple categories.

WDFW is emailing applicants who checked the box to be notified about the results of the drawing and has posted the results on its website. Successful applicants will receive their special hunt permits in the mail by mid-July.

For more information on special hunt permits, see the WDFW Big Game Hunting regulations pamphlet.

Rich Landers
Rich Landers joined The Spokesman-Review in 1977. He is the Outdoors editor for the Sports Department writing and photographing stories about hiking, hunting, fishing, boating, conservation, nature and wildlife and related topics.

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