Pennsylvania Creates Rules For Mentored Youth Hunters
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Pennsylvania Creates Rules For Mentored Youth Hunters





The Keystone State is proceeding with efforts to encourage more young people to take up hunting and increase sportsmen’s numbers. Pennsylvania was the first to pass Families Afield legislation that will allow mentored youth hunting.

On April 18, the Pennsylvania Game Commission gave preliminary approval to regulations that establish the Mentored Youth Hunting Program. The regulations must be approved at a subsequent meeting before taking effect.

“Pennsylvania’s new Mentored Youth Hunting Program will provide young newcomers to outdoor sports with safe opportunities to learn about the state’s rich hunting heritage,” said U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance (USSA) President Bud Pidgeon.

“I think it's a great day for the hunting tradition in Pennsylvania,” said National Wild Turkey Federation (NWTF) national board member Ron Fretts. “The coming together of the generations of people as teachers and mentors will bode well for hunting in the long term."

Mentored youth will be allowed to hunt groundhogs and squirrels in 2006. The regulations permitting the mentored hunters to take deer and turkeys will take effect in 2007. Once receiving final approval, the regulations take effect July 31.

The Mentored Youth Hunting Program was authorized when Gov. Ed Rendell signed HB 1690 on Dec. 22, 2005. The USSA worked with the Pennsylvania Mentored Youth Committee, led by the state chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation and the Pennsylvania Federation of Sportsmen’s Clubs, and others to rally sportsmen in the state to show support for the bill.

The USSA, along with the NWTF and the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) introduced Families Afield in an effort to stem the tide of hunters lost to other interests and increase hunter recruitment throughout the country.

For further information about the Families Afield program, call Rob Sexton of the USSA at (614) 888-4868, Tammy Sapp of the NWTF at (800) THE-NWTF; Steve Wagner of the NSSF at (203) 426-1320.
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