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Other Small Game
Shooting Hours – 30 minutes before sunrise to sunset
Open Area – statewide (except jackrabbit, see below), but no hunting on all state refuges and sanctuaries
SQUIRREL
(Includes fox and eastern gray squirrel)
Season dates – Aug 1 – Jan 31, 2021
Daily bag/possession limits – 7/28 in aggregate
COTTONTAIL
(Includes eastern and desert cottontail)
Season dates, hunt – Sept 1 – Feb 28, 2021
Season dates, running – Year-round; no harvest
Daily bag/possession limits – 7/28 in aggregate
JACKRABBIT
(Includes black-tailed and white-tailed jackrabbit)
Season dates – Sept 1 – Feb 28, 2021
Daily bag/possession limits – 4/16 in aggregate
Open area – west of US Highway 81
Nongame and Protected Mammals
NONGAME
Residents do not need a permit to hunt these species; but nonresidents must have a hunt (small game)
permit A Habitat Stamp is not required Nongame may be hunted statewide, year-round, with no bag or
possession limits:
Coyote Porcupine Prairie dog Woodchuck
PROTECTED MAMMALS
The following are protected and may not be hunted or trapped in Nebraska:
Black-footed ferret
Bear
Moose
River otter
Swift fox
Spotted skunk
Canada lynx
Gray wolf
Southern flying squirrel
