South Carolina’s alligator hunting season is still months away, but you have only three days to apply for a permit to hunt the crocs.
The deadline to apply online for this year’s public alligator hunting season and the Wildlife Management Area alligator hunting season is 11:59 p.m. Thursday. Applications are available at www.dnr.sc.gov/wildlife/alligator/index.html.
The American alligator – Alligator mississippiensis – is the only crocodilian native to South Carolina, according to the S.C. Department of Natural Resources..
Though once listed as a federally endangered species, populations have rebounded and the alligator’s status has been upgraded to threatened due to its similarity of appearance to the threatened American crocodile, the department says on its alligator website page
The state’s alligator populations have done so well that the Department of Natural Resources started a hunting season in 2008.
American alligators can live to be 60 or older and grow to at least 13 feet in length.