HUNTER EDUCATION INSTRUCTOR WORKSHOP IN PINEDALE

PINEDALE – Wyoming hunter education instructors are invited to a Pinedale Hunter Education Instructor Workshop to be held Aug. 14 in Pinedale. The workshop will be held at the Pinedale Regional WGFD office from   1 – 6 p.m.
WGFD Hunter Education Coordinator Jim Dawson said the workshop is to clarify expectations for instructors and to provide tools and teaching techniques to use in the classroom.
Dawson emphasized that the workshop is open to both long time and new hunter education instructors.  “The insights of our instructors are valued for the hunter education teaching team and the opportunity to discuss issues and concerns is included in the agenda,” Dawson said.
This will be the only workshop scheduled for the Pinedale region in 2010. The agenda for in-service workshops will be similar in the various regions to maintain a consistent hunter education message.
“The most important component of the agenda will be the program changes and updates ensuring a consistent message to all those teaching and/or taking Wyoming hunter education,” Dawson said.
The 5-hour workshop is preceded by a Hunter Education Internet Field Day from 8 a.m. to noon at the same venue. Any hunter education instructor interested in becoming a field day assessor is welcome to observe the morning session to get an understanding of how Internet Field Days are conducted.
Registration is required for all workshops so equipment, supplies and training aids can be provided at the session. Call Margaret James at (307) 777-4538 for more information.

Migratory bird hunters are alerted that the federal Harvest Information Program permit is required every year to hunt doves, cranes, snipe, rails, ducks, geese, coots and mergansers.  The free HIP permit is available at all license agents, G&F offices or by visiting the G&F website at http://gf.state.wy.us.  All licensed hunters in Wyoming, including Pioneer, lifetime license holders and nonresidents are required to have a HIP permit and carry it with them while hunting.  Hunters under 14 are not required to have the permit. Hunters must get the permit in each state they hunt migratory birds.  HIP permits expire June 30, just like the federal duck stamp.