CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. - Anyone who hasn't bought a doe license in Franklin County, Pa., will have to go hunting elsewhere, according to Treasurer Steve Minnich.
Antlerless deer licenses were sold out Wednesday, two weeks after they went on sale in the county, he said.
Minnich said the sellout was the result of the Pennsylvania Game Commission's reduction of the county's license allocation from 12,050 in 1997, to 7,600 this year.
"The wildlife biologists at the game commission have determined that our winter deer population is at 27 per acre," Minnich said Wednesday. That's down from 33 or 34 per acre in previous years, Minnich said.
He said Franklin is one of nine counties in the state to have its allocation reduced this year and the only one in South Central Pennsylvania.