PTA to open Keamuku for bird hunting

The Keamuku Maneuver Area at Pohakuloa Training Area will be open for bird hunting Saturday and Sunday. The area will be open for shotgun hunting of birds only from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.

All hunters must check in and out at one of the new Army check-in stations located at the following locations:

— Old Saddle Road gate, across from the Mauna Kea State Park entrance,

— Mile marker 49.5 gate on Daniel K. Inouye Highway, approximately one-and-a-half miles from Mamalahoa Highway on the left, or

— Gate 10 near mile marker 53 on Old Saddle Road, one mile from Mamalahoa Highway.

Hunters must be out of all hunting areas by 6 p.m. each day. Use of shotgun slugs is not permitted.

Access to the training area is by foot only, hunters should park in designated parking areas.

Info: 969-3474; www.garrison.hawaii.army.mil/pta, click on the “Hunting” tab. Hunters with disabilities: 969-2429.