Director’s Message
Here we are again at the start of my favorite time of year — fall — hunting season — small game season. Like many of you have I spent the offseason reliving past season highlight reels and longing for bird season to come back around. My countless hours of empty-handed walks behind my dogs have cycled through working some post season educated birds to the craziness of late summer broods that seem to endlessly erupt. While my dogs grow exponentially frustrated with my lack of action with each passing point, I am sure they too are acknowledging this year’s extraordinary production and the possibilities of what lies ahead.
Those of you who read my introduction to last year’s small game regulation booklet recall how I highlighted the wet winter and subsequent benefit to all wildlife, especially small game. Well, multiply my excitement from last year by two. Back-to-back years of above average precipitation has brought about outstanding recruitment and will be sure to create a memorable 2024 small game season, no matter what species you pursue.
Given this year’s small game potential I can think of no better time to roll out our new daily harvest questionnaire. Below you will see a QR code that will take you to a survey to report your daily harvest or catch. It is our hope that this simplified interface with drop down menus will allow participants to report their harvest more easily and accurately. At the end of each outing, you will be able to quickly identify whether you were hunting or fishing, then report the time spent, along with the number and general location (body water for fishing and county for hunting) of what species you harvested. While the survey allows for anonymous report, we are offering to send an end of season report depicting an individual’s cumulative harvest record to anyone who wishes to supply their client ID number, that can be found on your license, in the survey form.
This daily harvest questionnaire is intended to replace our past end of year surveys. We know that daily harvest information will more accurately represent the true harvest, given the record is a recent memory and not an end of season recollection. The data collected from the daily harvest survey will help our biologist better manage Nevada’s fish and wildlife populations. Please take the time to report your harvest.
I wish you all the best of luck this season and hope that you make many memories in Nevada’s outdoors.
Sincerely, Alan Jenne
Director, Nevada Department of Wildlife