The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife is accepting applications for the 2013 Any-Deer Permit Lottery.
Paper applications must be postmarked by July 26 or delivered in person to 284 State St., Augusta before 5 p.m. Online applications are due at 11:59 p.m. Aug. 15, and can be found at www.mefishwildlife.com. It is free to apply.
Residents applying to hunt on their own land without a license, and applicants with a legal residence outside the United States or Canada, must use the paper application and may not apply for an any-deer permit online.
The drawing will be held Sept. 9. Results will be posted at www.mefishwildlife.com after 2 p.m.
Officials said 46,710 anydeer permits will be issued in these 16 wildlife management districts: 3, 6, 7, 12, 13, 15-17, 20-26 and 29. It is “bucks only” in all other wildlife management districts.
Deer hunting season for firearms begins with Youth Deer Hunting Day on Oct. 26. Youth hunters may take a buck statewide or an antlerless deer only in the wildlife management districts where any-deer permits will be issued this fall.
Maine Resident Only Day will be held Nov. 2.
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