What’s the best feature of a state park? Is it the peace and quiet? Is it the adventure? The scenery? How can parks be an even-cooler place to hang out? More amenities? Less? The public has the opportunity to have a say in the future of state parks both locally and statewide. A ...
Recently, the ANF Chapter of the North Country Trail Association completed their last group trail work day of 2019. Over the last year, 184 volunteers participated in 18 trail work days. Throughout the year, 40 trail adopters diligently checked and made improvements on their own trail ...
Kirk Johnson, executive director for the Warren-based non-profit organization Friends of Allegheny Wilderness, recently attended the annual National Wilderness Workshop, hosted by the National Wilderness Stewardship Alliance and Society for Wilderness Stewardship, for the first time since ...
Likely the situation with GPS is similar to that of high tech sonar when Lake Erie walleye fishing got very popular in 1980, a lot more people own them than know how to use them. Especially those among us who are not tech-heads, the hicks and the old. I am eminently qualified to write on this ...
Pennsylvania has covered a third of the distance needed to set a state record black-bear harvest. Through an early archery bear season in selected Wildlife Management Units (WMUs), two new October firearms bear seasons and the first week of a two-week statewide archery bear season, Pennsylvania hunters took a preliminary harvest of 1,540 bears. A statewide four-day firearms bear season is set to start Nov. 23, and two extended bear seasons of varying lengths in selected WMUs start Nov. 30. Last year, hunters took a total of 3,153 bears – Pennsylvania’s 11th best bear harvest – ...
Passing the state House of Representatives Oct. 29 by a 144-54 vote, legislation that would provide expanded Sunday hunting opportunities in Pennsylvania appears likely to become law soon. But the Pennsylvania Game Commission wants hunters to know Senate Bill 147 has not been passed in final form yet, and even if it passes the state Senate a second time and is signed into law, it will not take effect until 90 days after passage. That means the bill, which would permit hunting on three Sundays — one within the archery deer season, one within the firearms deer season, and one on ...
