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<p style="font-size: 120%; margin-top: -5px; font-weight:bold;">August 11, 2025</p>
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<div style="font-size: 110%; line-height:150%;"><h1 style="clear:both; margin-top: 75px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-weight: bold; font-size: 130%;">City planning bow hunter orientation and registration sessions</h1>
<div class="content"><span style="padding-left: 50px;">(COLUMBIA, MO)</span> - The City of Columbia will host three hunter orientation and registration sessions for residents interested in bow hunting deer on designated City properties as part of the urban deer management program. The sessions are open to the public at no charge.<br /><br />The one-hour sessions will be held at the Activity & Recreation Center (ARC), 1701 W. Ash, and are hosted by Columbia Parks and Recreation and the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC). The following sessions are the only times when City hunting permits will be issued:<br /><br />Tuesday, Aug. 26: 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. at the ARC<br />Thursday, Aug. 28: 6 p.m. at the ARC<br /><br />Anyone wishing to receive a permit should <a style="white-space:nowrap" href="https://www.como.gov/CMS/bowhunt/public/index.php">register online</a> at CoMo.gov to attend one of the orientation sessions. Pre-registered individuals will be able to obtain thei
r permit upon completion of the orientation. Those who participated in the 2024 classes have permits that are good through Jan. 15, 2026. City permits from 2023 have expired. Hunters who obtained their permits in 2023 or prior must register again for the 2025-26 hunting season.<br /><br />Bow hunting will be permitted during two seasons: Sept. 15, 2025 through Nov. 14, 2025 and Nov. 26, 2025 through Jan. 15, 2026. To hunt at designated City locations, hunters must carry the permit they obtain upon completion of one of the three orientation sessions. They will also receive an accompanying permit that must be displayed in vehicles parked in designated areas at hunting locations. Hunters shall also follow all relevant MDC rules, regulations and requirements related to hunting.<br /><br />The City initiated the deer management program to help reduce the increasing urban deer population. Concern over the number of vehicle accidents involving deer was one of the factors that led to
the creation of the deer management program. <br /><br />Since it began in 2004, the deer management program has averaged more than 250 hunters per year. Further details about the program are posted at CoMo.gov (search "bow hunting"). For more information, call Parks and Recreation at 573.874.7460.</div>
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