Friday, April 21, 2023 | 10:31am

https://www.tn.gov/twra/news/2023/4/21/commissions-sets-2023-24-hunting-season.html

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. — The state’s 2023-24 hunting and trapping seasons were set by the Tennessee Fish and Wildlife Commission at its April meeting on Friday. The Commission approved the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency’s recommendations to the elk hunt proclamation to add four new elk permits and two additional elk hunt zones.

The new zones are located on the Ed Carter Tract and on the Sundquist tract. The increase brings the number of elk zones to 10 and total permits to 19. Two of the permits are for the archery hunt and two for the gun hunt. The Young Sportsman Hunt, which has one permit, has been aligned to coincide with school fall break dates.

Elk were reintroduced in Tennessee in 2000. Since the elk hunt began in 2009 with five gun permits, 96 bull elk have been harvested.

Several regulation changes on…