Free hunter safety Internet-completion course in Gulf County
News Release
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Media contact: Adam Young, 850-413-0084
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation
Commission (FWC) is offering a free hunter safety
Internet-completion course in Gulf County.
The course will be at the Gulf County Correctional
Facility training classroom, 500 Ike Steele Road in
Wewahitchka. Instruction will take place from 6 to 10 p.m.
March 26 and 8 a.m. to noon March 27.
To gain admittance, students must complete the
Internet course before coming to class and bring a copy of the
final report from the online portion of the course. The final
report form does not have to be notarized.
An adult must accompany children under 16 years of
age at all times. Students should bring a pencil and paper
with them to take notes.
The hunter safety course is required for people
born on or after June 1, 1975, before they can purchase a Florida
hunting license. The FWC course satisfies hunter-safety
training requirements for all other states and Canadian
provinces.
People interested in attending this course can
register online and obtain information about future hunter safety
classes at MyFWC.com/HunterSafety or by calling the FWC's regional
office in Panama City at 850-265-3676.