Below are several changes to wildlife regulations approved by the Board of Wildlife Resources that could impact Farm Bureau members. A complete list and additional details can be found here. These regulations go into effect August 1, 2023.

Deer

• 4VAC15-90-10. Game: Deer. Open Season; Generally:
  • The change adds an early antlerless-only firearms deer season on private lands in Carroll, Floyd, Montgomery, and Pulaski counites.
  • The change adds an early and late antlerless-only firearms deer season on private lands in Bedford and York counties.
  • The change extends the general firearms deer season on private lands in Roanoke County from two to four weeks.
• 4VAC15-90-80. Game: Deer. Muzzleloading gun hunting.
  • The change provides for full-season, either-sex deer hunting on private lands during both the early and late muzzleloading seasons in Smyth County.
  • The change adds one additional day of either-sex deer hunting during the early muzzleloading season on private lands in Lee, Russell, Tazewell, and Wise counties.
  • The change provides for full-season, either-sex deer hunting on private lands during the late muzzleloading season in Craig, Giles, and Scott counties.
  • The change provides for either-sex deer hunting during the last six days of the late muzzleloading season on private lands in Dickenson County.
• 4VAC15-90-91. Game: Deer: General firearms season either-sex deer hunting days.
  • The change increases the general firearms either-sex deer hunting days on private lands for Bland, Chesapeake, Chesterfield, Gloucester, King George, Lancaster, Northumberland, Nottoway, Richmond, Suffolk, Virginia Beach and Westmoreland.

Bear

• 4VAC15-50-11. Game: Bear. Open Season; Generally:
  • The change adds two weeks of general firearms season in 35 counties in southern and eastern Virginia: Amelia, Appomattox, Brunswick, Buckingham, Campbell, Charles City, Charlotte, Cumberland, Dinwiddie, Essex, Gloucester, Greensville, Halifax, Isle of Wight, James City, King and Queen, King George, King William, Lancaster, Mathews, Mecklenburg, Middlesex, New Kent, Northumberland, Nottoway, Pittsylvania, Prince Edward, Prince George, Richmond, Southampton, Surry, Sussex, Westmoreland and York.
  • The change removes the 3-day early firearms season from 26 counties in northern and western Virginia: Albemarle, Alleghany, Amherst, Arlington, Augusta, Bath, Bedford, Botetourt, Clarke, Culpeper, Fairfax, Fauquier, Frederick, Greene, Highland, Loudoun, Madison, Nelson, Page, Prince William, Rappahannock, Rockbridge, Rockingham, Shenandoah, Stafford and Warren.