A first-ever lottery is being launched this year for archery and crossbow deer hunting in November at four portions of the Green River National Wildlife Refuge in Henderson County.
According to the U.S. Fish &Wildlife Service, the hunting will be permitted on the Green River NWR’s Chestnut and Hickory refuge units in Horseshoe Bend; the Willow Oak unit along Green River Road No. 1; and the Pecan unit on Tscharner Road on Thursday through Sunday of each week in November.
The lottery will determine at which unit and on which dates a party of one or two hunters may hunt. Only the drawn permit holders will be permitted entry to each refuge unit on the designated hunt days…