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Purchase, print and pursue immediately

While sport anglers, hunters and trappers have been able to buy permits both online and by phone for years, they only receive a confirmation number and permit numbers to print or write down at the time of purchase. They must use this information while waiting to receive the actual permits through the mail, which can take up to two weeks. This delay is especially inconvenient for deer and turkey hunters, who are required to attach the actual permit to harvested game.

With e-Permits, all sport anglers, hunters and trappers will have the added convenience of being able to purchase permits through a personal computer, print them and have them in hand immediately. They can also save e-Permits to a personal computer for printing of additional copies. As always, permits may not be shared and additional copies of a permit DO NOT provide additional valid permits for the buyer or others to use.

E-Permits will be printed on paper. The key change with printing e-Permits is the printing stock. Buyers will print e-Permits on their home printers using standard printer paper instead of the traditional yellow permit stock used by vendors.

Deer and turkey permits will have some changes, but other anglers, hunters and trappers will get the same types of permits through e-Permits and vendors as they do now. Deer and turkey permits will be redesigned to have months and days of the month printed around the edges. Hunters will notch the month and day as part of recording their harvested game. With the new design for deer and turkey permits, these permits will no longer have the adhesive strip currently attached to harvested game as a transportation tag.

Paper permits will need protection and an attachment method. Deer and turkey hunters will need to protect these new paper e-Permits from becoming unreadable. They will also still need to attach the permits to harvested game. The Department suggests placing the permits in plastic sandwich bags or protecting the permits in some manner and attaching protected permits to harvested game with wire, twine or tape. Instructions for use will be on the printed permit sheets.

Beginning March 1, 2011, deer and turkey permits bought from vendors will still be printed on traditional yellow permit stock, but will no longer have the adhesive strip traditionally used to attach to harvested deer and turkey as a transportation tag. Turkey and deer hunters will still need to attach permits using items such as wire, twine or tape.

Additionally, a new online registration form allows future hunters to learn about and sign up for hunter education courses. For registration visit the MDC website at www.mdc.gov to enroll for all HED classes.

All times are from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. The minimum age is 11. Students under 15 must bring a copy of a birth certificate. Class sizes are limited to 80 students.

The following dates have been scheduled for classes in St. Francois County in 2011:

• March 7 and 8 – Farmington Elks Lodge 1765.

• April 4 and 5 – Farmington Elks Lodge 1765.

• August 15 and 16 – Bonne Terre VFW Hall

• October 10 and 11 – Bonne Terre VFW Hall.

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