Annual Game Harvest Surveys Begin In December

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Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks’ annual Hunting and Harvest Survey will begin Dec. 6 with calls to hunters of moose, sheep and goats. Other big and small game hunters will be surveyed beginning the end of January. Wildlife managers will use information collected during the survey to estimate the 2000 harvest and to recommend quotas for upcoming hunting seasons. According to FWP wildlife researcher Candy Hinz, about 80,000 Montana households will be contacted over the course of the survey period. Interviewers in January will collect information on big and small game including deer, elk, antelope, black bear, upland game birds, and migratory birds. The majority of the telephone interviewers make calls from their homes to their local calling area in the evenings and on weekends. This simple telephone survey takes under 5 minutes. Results of this survey will be available this spring.