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20 moose tags added to North Idaho hunts

Alex Harris, 37, of Coeur d'Alene shot this 52-inch bull moose on Sept. 19, 2013, in Idaho's Unit 6 in the St. Joe River drainage. (Jacob Rothrock )
Alex Harris, 37, of Coeur d'Alene shot this 52-inch bull moose on Sept. 19, 2013, in Idaho's Unit 6 in the St. Joe River drainage. (Jacob Rothrock )

HUNTING -- The Idaho Fish and Game Commission has set seasons for moose, bighorn sheep and mountain goats for 2015, adding moose tags for the Panhandle Region and adding new hunts farther south for bighorn sheep.

The new rules will include the following changes:

  • Panhandle Region: Add 20 additional antlered moose tags and additional hunting opportunity for antlerless moose hunts.
  • Clearwater Region: Extend season for bighorn sheep late controlled hunt in Unit 17; Split mountain goat hunt area creating two hunts and adding two tags.
  • Southwest Region: Add new hunt for bighorn sheep controlled hunt with two tags in Hunt Area 19A;  Reallocate tags for California bighorn sheep controlled hunts in two hunt areas.
  • Magic Valley Region: Add a new controlled hunt for one antlered moose.
  • Southeast Region: Add an archery only controlled hunt with two tags for moose, reorganize hunt areas and reduce antlered moose tags by two; Reallocate controlled hunts for antlerless moose, reorganize hunt areas and reduce tags by five.
  • Upper Snake: No Changes
  • Salmon Region: Expand hunt area 29 to include Unit 37 for antlered moose controlled hunts; Combine bighorn sheep hunt areas 28-2 and 28-3.

Specifics of these changes will be available in the new rules brochure available at license vendors, Fish and Game offices and online by the end of February.



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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