Welcome to 2025 Vermont Hunting & Trapping A Special Message from the Commissioner Since the earliest of times humans have harvested their food from the land. Early in Vermont’s history people were raising their own crops and hunting, fishing and trapping to provide healthy food for their famili...
Hunting, fishing or trapping on properly posted land is illegal withoutwritten permission. This includes land posted for hunting, fishing or trappingby permission only. In order to be properly posted, the landowner must file with the town clerk and the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department. See10 V...
“We looked closely at the WAC’s current regulations, and we decided we wanted to expand on them and add a lot more meat to them so that people would have a really clear understanding of what the town’s expectations were and what the town would own versus what users would own,” App...
The U.S. Supreme Court’s 2008 ruling affirmed an individual’s right to possess firearms at home for lawful purposes, and its 2022 decision extended this right to include carrying arms in public, imposing stricter scrutiny on regulations....
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In October 1874, Frank Webster went missing when hunting near the tunnel. When searchers found him in the woods days later, he was in shock. He confessed that he had heard weird voices – their macabre siren song had coaxed him to enter the tunnel. He went in, and saw ghostly figures ...
A person with a hunting license may train a dog to hunt and pursue the species listed below during the specified times: Bear: Permit Required — June 1 to September 15, sunrise to sunset; see additional regulations; non-resident bear hunters can train dogs in Vermont only if their home st...
Regulations on use of dogs in bear hunting and resident and nonresident bear dog permit applications are available from Vermont Fish & Wildlife or atwww.vtfishandwildlife.com. Nonresident bear hound hunters may not hunt in Vermont until September 15. ...
Vermont has high-quality deer hunting due to a rural landscape, lots of public and private land open to hunting, regulations allowing opportunities to…