Governor Plugs Fish and Game's Super Hunt

Idaho Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter urges hunters to participate in Idaho Fish and Game's Super Hunt program. "I think all hunters should enter the Super Hunt drawing because it helps everybody," Otter said in a short audio file available on the Fish and Game Website at http://fishandgame.idaho.gov. Plus it gives hunters who enter a chance at winning the hunt of a lifetime, he said. The money raised by the drawings goes to Fish and Game's Access Yes! program and helps compensate private land owners who provide hunter access to or across their land to public land beyond. "We've all had that experience with sign that say private property, no trespassing - no hunting," Otter said. "A lot of prime wildlife habitat is on private ground." The special Super Hunt drawings began in 2004 to raise money for Access Yes! program. The program has grown and last year provided hunter and angler access to more than 620,000 acres of private land and opened access across private land to nearly 700,000 acres of public land beyond. The Super Hunt is a fund-raising drawing for 40 big game tags. The tags are handed out to winners in two drawings. Tickets are drawn for elk, deer, pronghorn and moose tags. Winners can participate in any open hunt in the state for deer, elk, pronghorn or moose. That includes general hunts and controlled hunts. The first drawing on June 16 will be for eight elk, eight deer, and eight antelope hunts as well as one moose hunt; one "Super Hunt Combo" ticket also will be drawn that will entitle the winner to hunt for one each elk, deer, antelope, and moose. A second drawing will be August 15 when another "Super Hunt Combo" and tickets for two elk, two deer, and two antelope hunts along with one moose hunt will be drawn. The entry period for the second drawing is June 2 through August 11. Hunters can take an animal or animals on their Super Hunt or Super Hunt Combo tags in addition to any general season or controlled hunt tags they also hold. Hunters who win any Super Hunt tag may still enter controlled hunts, except where other restrictions apply. All other rules of individual hunts apply. Entries in the first Super Hunt and Super Hunt Combo drawing must be received at the Fish and Game headquarters by May 31 with the drawing set for June 15. A single ticket is $6.25. Tickets are available at license vendors, all Fish and Game offices, or they can be ordered on the Internet at http://fishandgame.idaho.gov/cms/hunt/superhunt/, and on the phone at 800-824-3729 or 800-554-8685. Fill out the tickets and mail them to: Fish and Game License Section, P.O. Box 25, Boise, ID 83707.