Time running out to collect tags for controlled hunts

Big game hunters who successfully drew controlled hunt tags for deer, elk, pronghorn and bear in Idaho have until midnight Aug. 1 to buy their tags.

Applicants can find out if they drew a tag by checking the controlled hunt drawing results on the Idaho Fish and Game web site at http://fishandgame.idaho.gov/CH.

Postcards were mailed to successful applicants by July 10, and it's the responsibility of hunters to determine whether they were drawn, Fish and Game officials said. Unsuccessful applicants will not be notified.

Controlled hunt tag not purchased by Aug. 1, except unlimited tags, will be forfeited and made available in a second drawing. The application period for the second drawing runs from Aug. 5 to 15 with the drawing scheduled in late August. Any remaining tags left from the second drawing will be available on a first-come basis at 10 a.m. Aug. 25.

Hunters can buy their tags at any Fish and Game office, license vendor, by telephone at 800-554-8685, or online from Fish and Game's website.