Mentored Youth Hunting Ratio Might Change

The Pennsylvania Board of Game Commissioners on April 15 gave preliminary approval to a measure that would allow mentors hunting with a mentored youth to accompany up to two additional hunters, be they mentored youth, junior hunters or mentored adults.

Presently, no additional junior or mentored hunters may accompany a mentor who’s hunting with a mentored youth. There’s a required one-to-one mentor/mentee ratio. That limit would change to three based on the proposal that was preliminarily approved today.

If the measure is adopted, the requirement that limits mentors and mentored youth from pos...