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A bill updating Nebraska\u2019s Game Law advanced to the final round of debate March 6 after it was amended to allow the state Game and Parks Commission to issue resident landowner limited permits to hunt mountain lions and award turkey permits via a draw.

\"Sen.
Sen. Tom Brandt<\/figcaption><\/figure> <\/p>\n

LB979, introduced by Plymouth Sen. Tom Brandt, would increase fee caps for various hunting and fishing licenses, permits and applications, among several other changes. <\/p>\n

Brandt introduced an amendment on select file that would authorize the commission to charge an application fee of no more than $9 for turkey permits awarded on the basis of a random drawing. <\/p>\n

He said the commission may need to use a draw system for nonresident turkey permits beginning next year after all 10,000 permits for 2026 sold out within two hours of being made available. <\/p>\n

The amendment, adopted 34-0, also would increase fee caps for turkey permits and allow the commission to charge fees for the issuance of a preference point.<\/p>\n

Sen. Paul Strommen of Sidney introduced another amendment, adopted 34-0, to include provisions of his LB1232. They would allow the commission to issue limited permits to hunt mountain lions to qualifying landowners or leaseholders or a member of their immediate family.<\/p>\n

Strommen said the measure is intended to help control mountain lion populations in certain areas, reducing livestock depredation that causes financial losses for farmers and ranchers. <\/p>\n

Under the proposal, an applicant\u2019s qualifying farm or ranch land would have to be within a designated mountain lion management zone. The number of limited permits in any management unit could not exceed 75% of the regular permits authorized for that unit. <\/p>\n

The application fee for the resident landowner limited permit could not exceed one-half the application fee for the regular mountain lion permit, and the number of applications for each farm or ranch would be capped based on certain acreage requirements.<\/p>\n

After adoption of the amendments, lawmakers advanced LB979 to final reading by voice vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A bill updating Nebraska\u2019s Game Law advanced to the final round of debate March 6 after it was amended to allow the state Game and Parks Commission to issue resident landowner limited permits to hunt mountain lions and award turkey permits via a draw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36723,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[247],"class_list":["post-40346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-natural-resources","tag-sen-tom-brandt"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/UpdateBlogPhoto-2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40347,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40346\/revisions\/40347"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}