The Arizona Game and Fish Commission will be considering draft 2007-2008 regulations for reptiles, raptors, crustaceans and mollusks, and amphibians during its meeting from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oct. 21 at the La Quinta Inn, at 2510 W. Greenway Road, Phoenix.
The commission will be considering the following commission order changes:
- Commission Order 25, raptors
Make the northern goshawk available for harvest without a permit by removing the resident northern goshawk hunt and related application procedures, thus making the species available with a nonpermit tag.
Add a nonresident northern goshawk hunt and related application procedures with the limit of three hunt-permit tags until demand can be ascertained.
Allow for falconers to capture peregrine falcon juveniles within 30 days after fledging per federal guidance.
- Commission Orders 41, 42, and 43
Each currently has a common note that reads: “The Grand Canyon - Parashant, Vermillion Cliffs, Sonoran Desert, Ironwood, and Agua Fria national monuments are open to the take of wildlife as permitted by monument regulations.”
It is recommended that the note be modified to remove the stipulation, “…as permitted by monument regulations.”
- Commission Order 41, amphibians
No changes other than as noted above.
- Commission Order 42, crustaceans and mollusks
Modify the “no open season” statement to include all springsnails under the genus Pyrgulopsis and Tryonia, and ambersnails under the genus Oxyloma as protected species .
- Commission Order 43, reptiles
Change the genus name of whiptail lizards to Aspidoscelis.
Copies of the proposed commission orders are available at all Arizona Game and Fish Department offices and at the department’s Web site .
The public may comment on these recommendations verbally at the October commission meeting or in writing, prior to the commission meeting, to: Nongame and Endangered Wildlife Program, Arizona Game and Fish Department, 2221 W. Greenway Road, Phoenix, Arizona 85023-4399. For more information, call 789-3500.
View the entire two-day commission meeting agenda on the Game and Fish Web site at azgfd.gov/commission.