Special Land Provisions

• Fish and Wildlife Development Fund lands are open to public hunting.  Vehicle use is not permitted except to retrieve legally killed big game animals.
• There are six National Wildlife Areas open to hunting in the province: Last Mountain Lake, Stalwart, Webb, Prairie, Bradwell and Tway.  For information on these areas and restrictions applying to them, contact the Canadian Wildlife Service at (306) 975-4087.
• The Fort a la Corne and Horsehide Lake Wildlife Management Units and all Provincial Parks and Recreation Sites are closed to hunting unless otherwise specified.  Firearms must be encased unless you have a hunting license valid in one of these areas.
• All remaining Wildlife Management Units are included in the Wildlife Management Zone that surrounds them and are open for hunting during the times specified in the regulations.  Many of these areas are PFRA pastures and are subject to the conditions outlined in the "PFRA and SPP Pastures" section below.
• Road corridor game preserves prohibit all hunting within 400 metres of selected roads in the provincial forest.  While traveling through road corridor game preserves, firearms must be encased and kept inside vehicles. Licensed hunters in road corridor game preserves may carry unloaded firearms from a vehicle to the edge of the game preserve by the most direct route and return in the same manner.
• Excluding any privately owned land, only residents of the following communities may hunt big game within a 16 mile kilometer (10 mile) radius of the following communities: Beauval, Black Lake, Buffalo Narrows, Camsell Portage, Cree Lake, Deschambault, Dillon, Fond du Lac, Ile-á-la-Crosse, Kinoosao, La Loche, La Ronge, Patuanak, Pelican Narrows, Pinehouse, Primeau Lake, Sandy Bay, Southend, Stanley Mission, Stony Rapids, Turnor Lake and Wollaston.
• Indian reserves are closed to licensed hunting unless permission is granted by the Chief or Band Council.

Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration (PFRA) and Saskatchewan Pastures Program (SPP) Pastures

• PFRA pastures and pastures managed by the Ministry of Agriculture under the SPP are open to hunting on the following dates:
  
  • Zones 1 to 47 - Nov 1
    
  • Zone 54 - Nov 10
    
  • Zones 48-53, 55 and 68N - Nov 15
    
• PFRA and SPP pastures may be open to hunting prior to these dates, but only if agreed to by the pasture manager.
  
• Vehicles are restricted to roads and trails except to retrieve legally killed big game by the most direct route; however, in select pastures designated trails are in effect.
  
• Contact the local Ministry of Environment Conservation Officer for all access and trail information on PFRA pastures and the pasture manager for access to SPP pastures.