FWC offers free hunter safety Internet-completion course in Washington County
News Release
Tuesday, April 20, 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 Washington County.
The course will be at Hard Labor Creek Plantation,
1963 Hard Labor Road in Chipley. Instruction will begin at 8
a.m. on May 1 and will take approximately seven hours to
complete.
To gain admittance, students must complete the
Internet course before coming to class and are required to 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.
Anyone 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.