This is new territory...not a state park. Since it is football season....I'll put it this way: You have to do what is necessary to move the chains.

FACT: Without bowhunter education, we would not have established bowhunting in state parks. After several years of positive results (and a snafu in a new application software), the state relaxed the bowhunter education requirement.

I'm not as well versed on the firearms hunts in state parks, but I believe hunter education was once a requirement on those hunts as well.