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 full Senate for consideration.
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,” Tim ...
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 ...
The Pennsylvania Game Commission has released a draft of its new Elk Management Plan, a document that, when adopted, will guide the agency’s elk management program through 2025. The plan is in draft form and available to view at www.pgc.pa.gov. It can be accessed through a link in the Quick Clicks section. The 2020-2025 Elk Management Plan focuses on maintaining a healthy and sustainable elk population, creating quality habitat and employing strategies for mitigating elk-human conflicts. In addition, there are goals related to educating and informing an interested public about elk ...
