Archers and turkey hunters will no longer be required to wear fluorescent orange while hunting.

The Pennsylvania Board of Game Commissioners on Tuesday approved a measure that simplifies requirements to wear fluorescent orange material while hunting.

There are no changes to the requirements for many seasons. And the use of orange continues to be highly recommended for all seasons, whether required or not.

But the new regulations eliminate the requirement to wear fluorescent orange at any time while archery hunting for deer, bear or elk. That eliminates all overlap periods when archery hunters were required to wear varying amounts of fluorescent orange while moving or post orange material while in a fixed position.

The regulations also eliminate the requirement for fall turkey hunters to wear fluorescent orange material.

All other seasons would continue with their existing fluorescent orange requirements.

Hunters in deer, bear and elk firearms seasons, small game season, and hunting coyotes during daylight hours within deer, bear or elk firearms seasons, must continue to wear, at all times, 250 square inches of daylight fluorescent orange material on the head, chest and back combined, visible 360 degrees.

Woodchuck hunters must continue to wear a solid fluorescent orange hat at all times.

And hunters in seasons for crows, doves, waterfowl, post-Christmas flintlock deer, spring turkeys and furbearers continue without fluorescent orange requirements.

The requirement to post orange while deer, bear or elk hunting from an enclosed blind also remains.

Commissioners said the changes are intended to clear up the complexity of existing fluorescent orange requirements, which each year result in a significant number of violations detected by state game wardens.