New rules come as hunting looms

SPOKANE — The state Department of Fish and Wildlife has announced new rules ahead of the fall deer and elk hunting seasons.

Effective Sept. 1 in game management units 124, 127 and 130, it is unlawful to hunt for deer, elk and moose using any type of bait placed, exposed, deposited, distributed, scattered or otherwise used for the purpose of attracting deer, elk or moose with the intent to hunt them; or natural or synthetic scents that contain or are derived from cervid urine and glandular extracts.

Hunters in the same game units will also be required to submit the whole head of a harvested animal with at least three inches of the neck attached or extracted retropharyngeal lymph nodes for chronic wasting disease sampling within three days of harvesting.

In another rule that went into effect Aug. 23, hunters may not transport deer, elk or moose, or parts thereof, taken from within the 100 series GMUs in areas that require a state hunting license, to other areas of state.

That excludes meat that has been deboned where it was harvested and is imported as boned-out meat, or meat that has been deboned within 100 series GMUs and is transported as boned-out meat to other areas of the state.