The Pennsylvania Game Commission bucked tradition by opening its rifle deer season on Saturday this year. It was an attempt to keep younger hunters. “We’re losing hunters,” Pennsylvania Game Commission Northwest Region Information and Education Supervisor Chip Brunst said. “We ...
“Because a sea lion needs help, that doesn’t mean the sea lion is weak.” At the Pacific Marine Mammal Center in Laguna Beach, Calif., Youngsville High School graduate Colby Hollabaugh rescues sea lions that are stranded, entangled, or otherwise in need of assistance. Hollabaugh understands those sea lions. When he returned to the states from overseas deployments with the United States Marine Corps, Hollabaugh was entangled with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). “It’s hard to define what PTSD feels like,” he said. “A lot of people don’t understand, it’s ...
The PA Game Commission is aware of a video, according to a post on its Facebook page, that was posted to Facebook of two males who allegedly physically assaulted a deer that appears to have already been shot. As of press time, there were over 4.8 thousand responses to the post that has been shared 6,500 times. The conduct portrayed in the video posted is “reprehensible and potentially a violation of the law,” according to the commission. Although the two individuals are reportedly from Brookville in Jefferson County, that doesn’t mean the incident occurred there, according ...
Sunrise (today) will open the deer season, ending a long custom in Pennsylvania's outdoors. Since at least the early 1960s, the season has begun on the Monday after Thanksgiving. The board of Pennsylvania game commissioners, responsible for establishing hunting seasons and limits, voted for ...
This story began about a week ago at a different junction of the space-time continuum when I went by a different byline. Ok, I screwed up, forgot my own name, thought I was someone else when this story began. And can you really blame me? I am a kid again, going from trap to trap, each time ...
This is a revealing time of year. Without the leaves on many of the trees and shrubs, sightlines are longer, that which is hidden forms shadowy outlines and lurking forms. Sometimes it is a downed tree, with roots now reaching toward the sky. Other times it’s a gnarled apple tree, the last ...
