News from the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department
October 14, 2005
Phone: (603) 271-3211
Email: info@wildlife.state.nh.us
For information and online licenses, visit 
http://www.wildlife.state.nh.us

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CONTACT:
Dan Lynch: (603) 271-3511 
Jane Vachon: (603) 271-3211
October 14, 2005


FISH AND GAME COMMISSION OCTOBER MEETING CHANGED TO HOLDERNESS LOCATION 

CONCORD, N.H. -- The New Hampshire Fish and Game Commission will hold 
its monthly meeting on Wednesday, October 19, at 1 p.m. at the New 
Hampshire Fish and Game Department's Owl Brook Hunter Education Center in 
Holderness. Meetings of the N.H. Fish and Game Commission are open to the 
public. 

Fish and Game's new 500-acre Owl Brook Hunter Education Center in 
Holderness was dedicated in September 2004. The first facility of its kind 
in northern New England, the center includes a modern classroom 
building, a practice archery area, a covered firing range for small-bore and 
muzzleloader training, plus a shotgun training area, hunter skills trail, 
orienteering course, indoor archery range and a 14-target wooded field 
archery course. Self-guided interpretive trails are in the works. For 
more information on Owl Brook, visit 
http://www.wildlife.state.nh.us/Hunting/hunter_ed_center.htm.

DIRECTIONS TO OWL BROOK:
Take I-93 to Exit 24 (Ashland); at the end of the ramp turn right onto 
Route 3/Route 25. In Ashland, bear left at the Y and continue along 
3/25 south. At the blinking light, turn left onto 175 and follow it for 
1.7 miles. Turn right onto Hardhack Road. Once on Hardhack Rd., go about 
75 yards and take a right onto Perch Pond Road. Follow Perch Pond Rd. 
for 1.8 miles and the entrance to the center will be on the left. 

The New Hampshire Fish and Game Department is the guardian of the 
state's marine, fish and wildlife resources. Visit 
http://www.wildlife.state.nh.us. 

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