TPWD ADDS ‘DOE DAYS’ IN SEVERAL AREA COUNTIES

  

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department has announced the opportunity for hunters, next season, to harvest some doe without a permit in several Brazos Valley counties.

TPWD added four “doe days” in Burleson and Milam counties, allowing hunters to take doe and antlerless deer without a permit during a certain time period, usually around Thanksgiving weekend.

The harvest of antlerless deer in these counties was previously only permitted by a special permit or during archery-only or muzzleloader-only seasons.

TPWD increased doe days from four to 16 in Brazos, Grimes, Leon, Madison and Robertson counties.

A muzzleloader-only late season was also added in Brazos, Burleson, Grimes, Leon, Madison, Milam and Robertson counties.

Alan Cain, whitetail deer program leader for TPWD says the doe days are meant to allow flexibility for hunters.

Cain adds that as the deer population grows and the sex ratio gets out of proportion, the department will open up doe days to help address some of those problems.