Hunting licenses and Deer Management Assistance Program permits for the upcoming season went on sale Monday.

According to the Pennsylvania Game Commission, the DMAP program “provides an additional means for landowners to manage deer to meet their land-use goals. It also provides additional opportunities to the hunters who participate in the program.”

For example, in the first six days of the firearms deer season, when most Pennsylvania hunters can harvest only antlered deer, hunters with DMAP permits may harvest antlerless deer in the DMAP unit for which their permit was issued.

The Allegheny National Forest and the Kinzua Quality Deer Cooperative have opened up a total of 12 DMAP units including several that include portions of Warren County.

“Hunters on DMAP properties may hunt antlerless deer in any deer season, using the sporting arm and/or implement allowed during that season,” the ANF said in a statement. “The hunter must be properly licensed for the season; for example, archery or muzzleloader licenses are required to take antlerless deer with DMAP permits during those seasons.”

Hunters will be able to secure up to two DMAP permits for the KQDC and ANF units.

The permits can be purchased from a license-issuing agent or online at huntfish.pa.gov. The cost per permit is $10.97 for a resident and $35.97 for a non-resident.

According to the ANF, “reporting on harvest success is mandatory for all DMAP permit holders, regardless of whether a deer is taken.”

The following KQDC units have permits available for the 2022-23 season: DMAP Unit 135, Conservation Forestry and a portion of the ANF, 440 permits; DMAP Unit 1996, Bradford Watershed/Collins Pine, 800 permits; DMAP Unit 1981, a portion of the ANF, 641, permits;

The ANF has opened up the following units: DMAP Unity 2211, a portion of the Marienville Ranger District in Forest County, 1,235 permits; DMAP Unit 2288, a portion of the Marienville Ranger District within Elk County, 1,000 permits; DMAP Unit 2501, a portion of the Bradford Ranger District within Warren and Forest counties, 900 permits; DMAP Unit 2637, a portion of the Bradford Ranger District within Warren and Forest counties, 700 permits; DMAP Unit 2824, a portion of both ranger districts in Warren, McKean, Elk and Forest counties, 600 permits; DMAP Unit 3373, a portion of both ranger districts in McKean County, 650 permits; DMAP Unit 3593, a portion of the Marienville Ranger District within Forest and Elk counties, 868 permits; DMAP Unit 4102, a portion of the Bradford Ranger District in Warren and McKean counties, 800 permits; DMAP Unit 4820, a portion of the Marienville Ranger District within Forest County, 250 permits.

“Each DMAP harvest permit is good for taking one antlerless deer on the property for which the DMAP harvest permit was issued,” according to the Game Commission.