1. (1) Permits (On Wildlife Management Areas and Refuges Where Permits Are Required).

   1. (a) Before any person may hunt on a wildlife management area or refuge he must possess a valid and appropriate area hunt permit as specified in Items (2) and (3) below, except when exempt from doing so under the provisions of Item (1)(b) below. Such permits are not transferable.
   2. (b) Hunt applicants or participants must be seventeen (17) years of age or over for hunting turkey, deer, bear and wild hog except that youths, ages 6-16, may apply and participate if they are accompanied on the hunt by an adult, twenty-one (21) years of age or older. Youths under sixteen (16) years of age are exempt from purchasing an area hunt permit on all wildlife management areas and refuges when hunting any species except big game, but they must be accompanied on the hunt by an adult who possesses a valid hunt permit.
   3. (c) A management area hunt permit is automatically voided when the permittee’s bag limit is filled.

2. (2) Reelfoot Preservation Permit.

   1. (a) Before any person shall hunt, trap fish or participate in boating upon the waters or lands of Reelfoot Wildlife Management Area, including the washout and tailwaters downstream as marked, Black Bayou Refuge, and that portion of the Reelfoot National Wildlife Refuge in Tennessee, a Reelfoot Preservation Permit shall be carried on the person of said users when participating in the above mentioned activities for inspection by duly authorized officers.
   2. (b) Exemptions - Persons exempt from the Reelfoot Preservation Permit requirement are those under sixteen (16) years of age, residents sixty-five (65) years of age or older, and holders of the adult Sportsman License or Lifetime Sportsman License.

3. (3) Before any person, except those under sixteen (16) years of age hunting small game and waterfowl, may hunt on a wildlife management area or refuge, he must possess a permit as outlined below.

   1. (a) A WMA Small Game permit is required on the following wildlife management areas and refuges: AEDC Foothills Normandy Alpine Mountain Forks of the River North Chickamauga Creek Arnold Hollow Fort Ridge North Cumberland Bark Camp Barrens Gray’s Creek Oak Ridge Barkley Haley-Jaqueth Obion River Bean Switch Refuge Happy Hollow Old Hickory Bear Hollow Mountain Harmon Creek Old Hickory Lock 5 Refuge Beason Creek Harp Owl Hollow Mill Beaver Dam Creek Harts Mill Paint Rock Beech River Haynes Bottom Parker Branch Big Sandy (including Gin Creek) Headwaters Pea Ridge Blackburn Fork Henderson Island Refuge Percy Priest Bogota Hick Hill Perry Switch Bridgestone/Firestone Hickory Flat Perryville Centennial Wilderness Hiwassee Refuge Prentice Cooper Browntown Hop-In Refuge Rankin Buffalo Ridge Refuge Horns Bluff Refuge Shelton Ferry Buffalo Springs Jackson Swamp Skinner Mountain Camden Jarrell Switch Refuge South Fork Refuge Catoosa John Tully Spring Creek Cedar Hill Swamp Keyes-Harrison Tellico Lake Chambers Creek Kingston Refuge Thorny Cypress Charlotte Ann Finnell Neal Kyker Bottoms Refuge Tie Camp Cheatham Kyles Ford Tigrett Cheatham Lake Laurel Hill The Boils Chickamauga Lick Creek Three Rivers Chuck Swan Lick Creek Bottoms Tull Bottom Col. Forrest V. Durand Luper Mountain Tumbleweed Cordell Hull Maness Swamp Refuge Watts Bar Cordell Hull Refuge Maple Springs West Sandy Cove Creek McGlothin-Largin White Lake Refuge

      1. C. M. Gooch Meeman-Shelby Forest White Oak Cummings Cove Mingo Swamp Williamsport Cypress Pond Refuge Moss Island Wolf River Dry Creek Mount Roosevelt Woods Reservoir Refuge Eagle Creek MTSU Yanahli Eagle Lake Refuge Natchez Trace Yuchi Refuge Ernest Rice Sr. New Hope Flintville Hatchery Nolichucky A WMA small game permit is required for individuals participating in dog training. A field trial permit is required on Percy Priest WMA, Tellico Lake WMA and Wolf River WMA.

         1. (b) A WMA Small Game and Waterfowl permit is required for hunting waterfowl on the following wildlife management areas and refuges: AEDC Happy Hollow Obion River Barkley Harmon Creek Old Hickory Bean Switch Refuge Harts Mill Parker Branch Beason Creek Haynes Bottom Percy Priest Beech River Headwaters Perry Switch Big Sandy (including Gin Creek) Hiwassee Refuge Shelton Ferry Bogota Horns Bluff Refuge South Fork Refuge C.M. Gooch Jackson Swamp Spring Creek Camden Jarrell Switch Refuge The Boils Cedar Hill Swamp John Tully Thorny Cypress Chambers Creek Moss Island Three Rivers Charlotte Ann Finnell Neal Lick Creek Tigrett Cheatham Lake Lick Creek Bottoms Tumbleweed Chickamauga McGlothin-Largin Tull Bottom Col. Forrest V. Durand Meeman-Shelby Forest Watts Bar Cordell Hull Mingo Swamp West Sandy Cordell Hull Refuge Moss Island White Oak Cypress Pond Refuge New Hope Wolf River Eagle Lake Refuge Nolichucky Yanahli Ernest Rice Sr. North Chickamauga Creek Yuchi Refuge Fort Ridge Paint Rock Gray's Creek Oak Ridge

         2. (c) A WMA big game permit is required for hunting deer, bear, and turkey on the following wildlife management areas and refuges: AEDC Ernest Rice Sr. McGlothin-Largin Alpine Mountain Fall Creek Falls State Park Nolichucky Arnold Hollow Flintville Hatchery Normandy Bark Camp Barrens Foothills North Chickamauga Creek Barkley Forks of the River North Cumberland Beason Creek Fort Ridge Oak Ridge Bean Switch Refuge Gallatin Steam Plant Obion River Bear Hollow Mountain Gray’s Creek Old Hickory Beaver Dam Creek Haley-Jaqueth Old Hickory Lock 5 Refuge Beech River Happy Hollow Owl Hollow Mill Big Sandy (including Gin Creek) Harmon Creek Paint Rock Bogota Harp Parker Branch Blackburn Fork Harts Mill Pea Ridge Bridgestone/Firestone Haynes Bottom Percy Priest Centennial Wilderness Headwaters Perry Switch Browntown Henderson Island Refuge Perryville Buffalo Ridge Refuge Hick Hill Prentice Cooper Buffalo Springs Hickory Flat President’s Island

            1. C. M. Gooch Hiwassee Refuge Rankin Camden Hop-In Refuge Shelton Ferry Catoosa Horns Bluff Refuge Skinner Mountain Cedar Hill Swamp Jackson Swamp South Fork Refuge Chambers Creek Jarrell Switch Refuge Spring Creek Charlotte Ann Finnell Neal John Tully Tellico Lake Cheatham Keyes-Harrison The Boils Cheatham Lake Kingston Refuge Thorny Cypress Cherokee Kyles Ford Three Rivers Chickamauga Laurel Hill Tie Camp WMA Chuck Swan Lick Creek Tigrett Col. Forrest V. Durand Lick Creek Bottoms Tumbleweed Cordell Hull Luper Mountain Tull Bottom Cordell Hull Refuge Maness Swamp Refuge Watts Bar Cove Creek Maple Springs West Sandy Cummings Cove Meeman-Shelby Forest White Lake Refuge Cypress Pond Refuge Mingo Swamp White Oak Dry Creek Moss Island Williamsport Eagle Creek Mount Roosevelt Wolf River Eagle Lake Refuge MTSU Woods Reservoir Refuge Edgar Evins State Park Natchez Trace Yanahli Enterprise South Park New Hope Yuchi Refuge

               1. (d) A WMA Small Game or WMA Small Game and Waterfowl permit is required to trap on all areas that require a small game hunting permit.

Authority: T.C.A. §§ 70-1-206, 70-2-201, 70-4-107, and 70-5-101. Administrative History: Original rule certified May 8, 1974. Amendment filed July 18, 1974; effective August 18, 1974. Amendment filed December 23, 1974; effective January 23, 1975. Amendment filed June 25, 1975; effective July 25, 1975. Amendment filed October 8, 1975; effective November 7, 1975. Amendment filed July 19, 1976; effective August 18, 1976. Amendment filed October 22, 1976; effective November 22, 1976. Amendment filed June 8, 1977; effective July 8, 1977. Amendment filed March 2, 1978; effective April 1, 1978. Amendment filed June 9, 1978; effective July 10, 1978. Amendment filed May 17, 1979; effective July 2, 1979. Amendment filed August 2, 1982; effective August 31, 1982. Amendment filed January 24, 1984; effective February 23, 1984. Amendment filed June 27, 1985; effective July 27, 1985. Amendment filed June 9, 1986; effective July 9, 1986. Amendment filed July 25, 1986; effective September 8, 1986. Amendment filed July 8, 1987; effective August 22, 1987. Amendment filed April 20, 1988; effective June 4, 1988. Amendment filed October 26, 1988; effective December 10, 1988. Amendment filed June 8, 1989; effective July 23, 1989. Amendment filed May 11, 1990; effective June 25, 1990. Amendment filed November 6, 1991; effective December 21, 1991. Amendment filed December 14, 1992; effective January 19, 1993. Amendment filed September 26, 1996; effective December 10, 1996. Amendments filed August 16, 1999; effective October 30, 1999. Amendment filed July 1, 2000; effective September 23, 2000. Amendment filed July 19, 2001; effective October 2, 2001. Amendment filed April 23, 2003; effective July 7, 2003. Amendment filed July 29, 2004; effective October 12, 2004. Amendment filed July 12, 2005; effective September 25, 2005. Amendments filed October 25, 2005; effective January 8, 2006. Amendment filed June 22, 2006; effective September 5, 2006. Amendment filed September 29, 2006; effective December 13, 2006. Amendment filed June 25, 2008; effective September 8, 2008. Repeal and new rule filed April 4, 2012; effective July 3, 2012. Amendments filed December 9, 2014; effective March 9, 2015. Amendments filed March 16, 2017; effective June 14, 2017.