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Important Management Messages
   
  ● Message from the Minister
     ● Important Changes for 2024
     ● WMU Descriptions
     ● Maps
     ● Federal Firearms Legislation
     ● Definitions


Licensing
     ● Purchasing a Licence and Licence Requirements
          ○ Licence Issuers
          ○ WIN Card
          ○ Wildlife Certificate
          ○ Licensing Requirements for First-time Hunters
     ● Resident Youth Hunting Licences
     ● Resident Senior Hunting Licences
     ● Hunters with Disabilities
     ● Mandatory Suspended Hunter Requirements
     ● Licence Suspensions for Unpaid Fines
     ● Draws for Special Licences
     ● Draw Application Deadline Dates
     ● Draw Results
     ● Landowner Special Licence
     ● Partner Licence
     ● Outfitting and Guiding Requirements for Non-Residents
     ● BIG GAME LICENCES
          ○ Resident Licence Costs and Combinations
          ○ Non-resident (Canadian) Licence Availability
          ○ Non-resident (Canadian) Licence Costs and Combinations
          ○ Non-resident Alien Licence Availability
          ○ Non-resident Alien Licence Costs and Combinations
     ● GAME BIRD LICENCES
          ○ Licence Costs


General Regulations
     ● Prohibitions
     ● General
     ● Big Game
     ● Game Bird
     ● Exporting
     ● Sale of Wildlife
     ● Found Dead Wildlife
     ● Hunting Privileges on Occupied, Private and Public Land
     ● Hunting in Alberta Provincial Parks & Protected Areas
     ● Restricted Areas
          ○ All Hunting
          ○ Big Game Hunting
          ○ Game Bird Hunting
     ● Vehicle Restrictions

Big Game Regulations
     ● Big Game Identification
     ● Evidence of Sex, Species and Class
     ● Tagging
     ● Wild Game Processing
     ● Bowhunting
     ● Hunting with Cross-bows
     ● Wildlife Compulsory Registration


Big Game Seasons
     ● Prairie WMUs (100 series)
     ● Parkland WMUs (200 series & 728, 730, 936)
     ● Foothills WMUs (300 series)
     ● Mountain WMUs (400 series)
     ● Boreal WMUs (500 series & 841)
     ● Cougar Seasons
     ● Black Bear Seasons
     ● Additional Special Licence Draw Hunts
     ● Other Species


Game Bird Regulations

     ● Falconry Hunting
     ● Bowhunting
     ● Special Hunting Areas
     ● Spring Snow/Ross’s Goose Hunting Season
     ● Youth Waterfowl Hunting
     ● Wild Turkey Draw


Game Bird Seasons & Bag Limits

Game Management
     ● Marked Wildlife
     ● Wild Game Public Health Advisory
     ● Report A Poacher – 1-800-642-3800
     ● Chronic Wasting Disease and Deer Management

     ● Bill of Lading

Additional Information

     ● Common Licence Mistakes
     ● Alberta's Wildlife Records
     ● Wild Game for the Foodbank Program


2023/24 Alberta Hunting Report

Sunrise/Sunset Table

Further Inquiries