The Idaho waterfowl season has been set by the Idaho Fish and Game Commission for duck hunting, goose hunting and other waterfowl and sage grouse seasons for the Idaho 2008 waterfowl fall season.
Idaho Duck Season:
The duck hunting season will be 107 days, running from Oct. 4 to Jan. 16, in northern and eastern Idaho and the Fort Hall Reservation; and from Oct. 11 to Jan. 23 in the southwestern part of the state.
The Idaho duck bag limit will be seven ducks. The season will be closed on canvasbacks.
A shorter scaup season will run Oct. 25 to Jan. 16, in the northern and eastern parts of the state, and from Nov. 1 to Jan. 23 in southwest Idaho.
Commissioners also set the seasons for sage-grouse hunting, which will open Sept. 20 in the following areas:
- Southwestern Owyhee County, 23-day season, two-bird bag limit.
- Northwestern Owyhee County, seven-day- season, one-bird limit.
- Eastern Owyhee County, closed.
- Magic Valley, seven-day season, one-bird limit.
- Parts of Power, Oneida and Cassia counties, seven-day season, one-bird limit.
- Most of the Upper Snake Region as well as Lemhi and part of Custer counties, 23-day season, two-bird limit.
- Big Desert area west of I-15 and south of U.S. 20, seven-day season, one-bird limit.
- Southeastern part of the state, east of I-15 and south of U.S. 26, closed.
Idaho Goose Season:
The 107-day goose season, unchanged from last year, will run from Oct. 4 to Jan. 16 in northern and eastern Idaho and the Fort Hall Reservation; and from Oct. 11 to Jan. 23 in the southwestern part of the state.
The Idaho goose hunting bag limit will be four geese.
More information will be available in the 2008 Waterfowl Seasons and Rules brochure and a pamphlet on sage grouse hunting rules, which will be available later this month from Fish and Game.
