Landowners who post their properties now have the option of using purple paint rather than signs to alert others that lands are private and trespassing isn’t permitted. House Bill 1772, which was signed into law by Gov. Tom Wolf in November, took effect recently. The bill adds language to ...

The Senate Game & Fisheries Committee, chaired by Senator Dan Laughlin, approved House Bill 752 on February 5. The bill removes the current price per acre restriction on Game Fund money used for the purchase of land to be used as game lands in a Second Class County. The bill now goes to ...

The Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission encourages anglers and the public to assist in stocking efforts. “If trout fever is already starting to set in and you’re already looking to get outside, we welcome everyone to join us for a stocking event and help put the fish in the water,” ...

The season doesn’t open for three months. And the weather wouldn’t permit it anyway. But the state has released trout stocking schedules for 2020. Approximately 3.2 million trout will be stocked in 707 stream and 130 lakes across the Commonwealth, per the Fish & Boat Commission. That ...

A week ago we started a circuit around Pennsylvania looking at some of our favorite state parks starting with a stop at the Pine Creek Gorge at Leonard Harrison State Park, then a series of spectacular waterfalls at Rickets Glenn, then on to a Revolutionary War iron foundry at French Creek ...

Porcupines have always been such an elusive creature to me. While hiking, more often I see signs they are nearby like scat, bark missing on trees, or wood chips scattered on the ground instead of the real creature. They always seem to evade detection, which is interesting seeing as they are a ...