1,000 alligator hunting permits to be issued
By Bo Petersen
Those gleaming red eyes in the water in the dark will have a few more flashlights shining on them this fall — applications for alligator hunting are now available online.
S.C. Natural Resources will issue as many as 1,000 permits, divided equally across four coastal zones. The move opens the first harvest in years on a protected crocodilian species with a population of at least 100,000 that waterway residents say is far more and has become too menacing.
For more information, go to DNR's web site.
Read more in tomorrow's edition of The Post and Courier.
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