Chapter 3: Safe and Responsible Bowhunting
Bowhunting Responsibilities

• Ask permission before entering private land. Trespassing is usually a criminal offense—you can be arrested, prosecuted, fined, and even jailed. Getting permission to hunt on another person’s land is both a law and a courtesy.
• Contact the landowner well in advance of your hunt. Obtain permission for companions who may come with you, and check with the landowner each time you plan to visit.
• Follow the landowner’s restrictions on when and where you may hunt.
• Leave gates open or closed as you find them (or as requested by landowner).
• Drive only on existing roads approved for use.
• Don’t walk across newly planted fields or areas with crops ready to harvest.
• Don’t litter, build campfires without permission, or drive spikes or nails into trees that may someday may be harvested for timber.
• Leave livestock undisturbed.

Contact the landowner while wearing street clothes and well in advance of when you wish to hunt.