Download and print the 2026 hunting regulations by section
► Important management messages
● Minister Message
● Important changes for 2026
● WMU descriptions
● Maps
● Federal firearms legislation
● Terms and 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 crossbows
● 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
● Wild turkey draw
● Double-crested cormorants
► Game bird seasons & bag limits
● Youth hunting
► 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
► 2025/26 Alberta hunting report
► Sunrise/sunset table
► Further inquiries
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