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Friday, XN .. .nil.... 6, 2009


New Members Elected To Florida


Farm Bureau Board of Directors


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 Four new members joined the board of
directors of the Florida Farm Bureau Feder-
ation following the annual meeting Oct. 28-30
at Daytona Beach. In addition, the board of
directors reelected Mark Byrd, an Apopka
nurseryman, to be its Secretary. Jeff Vermil-
lion, a rancher from Marion County, was
elected Treasurer.
 Jerry Davis, an diversified farmer from
Jay, was elected to represent District 1.
Blountstown farmer Henry McCrone, who


Ginny Paarlberg


By Tony Young
 November means
the 2009-10 huntin' sea-
son's in full swing. This
month, general gun, fall
turkey, quail and gray
squirrel, snipe and the
second phase of mourn-
ing and white-winged
dove hunting seasons
open.
 The first thing you
need to do is pick up a
$17 Florida resident
hunting license. Non-
residents pay $46.50 for a
10-day license or $151.50
for 12 months.
 If you plan to hunt
one of Florida's many
wildlife management ar-
eas (WMAs), you'll also
need a $26.50 manage-
ment area permit, but
don't forget to study the
brochure for the specific
area you plan to hunt,
because dates, bag limits
and rules differ greatly
from area to area.
 You can get these
brochures at tax collec-
tors' offices and regional
Florida Fish and
Wildlife Conservation
Commission (FWC) of-
fices in close proximity
to the WMA, or you can
download them from
MyFWC.com/Hunting.
 You can buy your li-
cense and permits over
the telephone by calling
toll-free 888-HUNT-
FLORIDA or online at
www.wildlifelicense.co
m/fl. Just have your
credit card ready You
also can purchase them
from tax collectors' of-
fices and most retail out-


lets that sell hunting and
fishing supplies.
 The general gun sea-
son runs Nov. 14 Jan. 24
in the Central Hunting
Zone. In the Northwest
Zone, it comes in
Thanksgiving Day and
lasts four days through
Nov. 29. Two weeks later,
the season reopens Dec.
12 and runs through Feb.
17. For readers hunting
the South Hunting Zone,
the general gun season's
already in and lasts
through Jan. 10.
 Hunters can take
bucks having at least
one antler 5 inches or
longer. On private lands,
the daily bag limit for
deer is two.
 On private lands,
hunters can take wild
hogs year-round with no
bag or size limits. On
most but not all -
WMAs, there's also no
bag or size limit on wild
hogs, and hunters can
take them during any
hunting season except
spring turkey. Check the
WMA brochure to be
certain.
 The highly antici-
pated antlerless deer
season, often called "doe
week," is Dec. 19-25 in
the Northwest Zone,
Nov. 21-27 in the Central
Zone and Nov. 7-13 in the
South Hunting Zone.
 During doe week,
the daily bag limit's one
buck and one doe, or two
bucks. You may not take
two does in one day like
you may during archery
season, and spotted


produces peanuts, soy-
beans and cattle, will rep-
resent District 3. Brad
Etheridge of Williston,
who with his family oper-
ates a livestock back-
grounding operation, will
represent District 9.
 Jacob Larson, newly-elected class presi-
dent of the FFBF Young Farmer and Rancher
Leadership Group, also will join the board.
Jeffery Hamrick, a Madison county rancher,
will continue to serve on the board as imme-
diate past class president.
 Michelle Williamson, chair of the FFBF
State Women's Leadership Committee, and
Virginia "Ginny" Paarlberg, Women's vice
chair, will continue to serve on the state
board.
 The Florida Farm Bureau Federation's
State Women's Leadership Committee re-
mains unchanged from last year. Michelle
Williamson of Sydney was re-elected chair.
Williamson and Vice-chair Ginny Paarlberg
serve on the Florida Farm Bureau board of
directors and Paarlberg serves on the Ameri-
can Farm Bureau Women's Leadership Com-
mittee. Ann Christmas of Chipley was
elected to represent District 1; Norma Jean
Parrish will represent District 3; Cheryl
Flood of Frostproof was elected to represent
District 5, Laurie Schuller will represent Dis-
trict 7 and Abbie Rolph of Century is the
Young Farmer and Rancher representative.


fawns are never legal
game. And by the way,
WMAs do not have an
antlerless deer season.
 If you hunt with
deer dogs anywhere in
Florida, special rules
and registration require-
ments may apply, so call
the FWC for details.
 Fall turkey season
in the Northwest Hunt-
ing Zone is Nov. 26-29
and Dec. 12 Jan. 17. In
the Central and South
zones, it's Nov. 14 Jan.
10. Only bearded
turkeys and gobblers are
legal game, and you
must have a $5 turkey
permit to hunt them.
The bag limit's one bird
per day, and a total of
two during the archery,
crossbow, muzzleloading
gun and fall turkey sea-
sons combined.
 It's also against the
law to hunt turkeys in
Holmes County during
the fall season.
 Quail and gray
squirrel season runs
statewide Nov. 14 -
March 7. There's a daily
bag limit of 12 for each,
but shooting fox squir-
rels is against the law.
 Shooting hours for
deer, turkeys, quail and
gray squirrels is a half-
hour before sunrise to a
half-hour after sunset.
All legal firearms, muz-
zleloaders, bows, cross-
bows and handguns are
legal for taking these
resident game animals
during the general gun,
antlerless deer, fall
turkey, and quail and


gray squirrel seasons.
 Snipe hunting in
Florida ranks second in
the nation in number of
birds harvested each
year, and the season
runs Nov. 1 Feb. 15
statewide. The second
phase of the mourning
and white-winged dove
season also comes in
this month and runs
Nov. 14-29. Shooting
hours for migratory
game birds are one-half
hour before sunrise to
sunset. The bag limit for
snipe is eight; and for
doves, the bag limit is 15.
 You must get a no-
cost migratory bird per-
mit if you plan to hunt
snipe, doves or any other
migratory game birds.
 The FWC even pro-
vides an online "Dove
Hunters' Hotline,"
which gives up-to-date
information on Florida's
public dove fields. The
address is
MyFWC.com/Dove, and
it's updated every Thurs-
day throughout the dove
season. Information in-
cludes dove densities,
previous weeks' har-
vests and field condi-
tions.
 Whether small-game
hunting with friends
and family or hunting
solo, going after that
monster buck, boar hog
or big tom, November
brings loads of great
hunting opportunities.
 Here's wishing you a
happy Thanksgiving and
a successful hunting sea-
son.


 High school and college students, Boy Scout
troops and others helped make Otter Springs Park &
Campground a better place to swim, fish and camp.
On Oct. 24, about 254 volunteers participated in a
cleanup effort at the park. The event was organized
by Current Problems in partnership with Gilchrist
County, Karst Environmental Services/Karst Pro-
ductions, WUFT and Suwannee River Water Man-
agement District (SRWMD).
 A dive crew and several Boy Scout members
worked to retrieve 35 large rocks from the bottom of
Otter Spring. A group of college students helped
clean out trash and other debris in and around a
sinkhole on the property Other volunteers paddled
in kayaks and canoes to help clean the spring run. In
all, an estimated 8,215 pounds of garbage including
concrete, tires and a dumpster filled with trash bags
- was collected.
 "We are thrilled with the job all the volunteers
did. They pitched in and made a tremendous differ-
ence at the park," said Nancy Nieman, park manag-
er for Otter Springs Park & Campground.
 Nieman said while staff at the park keeps the
campground and hiking trails litter-free, volunteers
at the cleanup took care of areas less noticeable.
 "They were going back in the woods, the bushes,
the rough stuff," she said.
 Current Problems, which headed up the event,
is an environmental group that conducts cleanup ef-
forts for Northeast Florida's rivers, lakes, springs
and creeks.
 Fritzi Olson, Current Problems executive direc-
tor, said cleaning up waterways is important to pro-
tect the aquifer and ocean.
 "What goes into them (waterways), goes into our
drinking water. What doesn't, will eventually float
into the ocean," she said.
 Olson said cleanup events serve as a teaching
tool that demonstrates the effects of stormwater
runoff and illegal dumping.
 "What we do on land affects our surface and
ground waters," she said.
 Otter Springs Park & Campground, in Trenton,
is owned by SRWMD and managed by Gilchrist
County
 For more information about Current Problems
visit www.currentproblems.org. For more informa-
tion about the park visit www.ottersprings.com.
 For more Information about SRWMD public
lands visit www.mysuwanneeriver.com.


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