Greene County Conservation is sponsoring a three-day hunter safety training course in Jefferson starting tonight.

Before you can purchase an Iowa hunting license, the Department of Natural Resources mandates that you must take a required 12-hour course in hunting safety.  You must attend all three days to complete the training.

Conservation Director Dan Towers says they will be covering a wide variety of topics.  Some of the topics will be how to handle a gun safely and ethics in hunting.

Towers comments that anyone born after January 1, 1972 are invited.

“The majority of the people that attend the classes are 12 to 13-year-olds and you have to be 12-years-old to attend the class.  But we also have a sprinkling of adults (and) actually quite a few women.  Girlfriends and wives of hunters that decide that they want to go out.”

The classes are tonight and Thursday night from 6:30-9pm at the education classroom of the Greene County Medical Center and Saturday, March 2nd from 8am-4pm at Slininger Woods.  Participants are asked to bring a sack lunch for Saturday’s session.

To sign up, contact Dan Towers at 386-5674 or go online to iowadnr.gov/training.