HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Game Commission is asking hunters for some help. Hunters can help keep eagles safe by burying entrails of harvested game. An increasing number of bald eagles have been admitted to wildlife-rehabilitation centers across Pennsylvania exhibiting signs of ...
Commentary Last week I mentioned my buddy, Joanie Haidle, called me with an update on her adventures. Seems she was checking her trailcams and came upon one that had been totally ripped off the tree. It was bent and twisted and teeth marks peppered the outside of it. She spent a couple of ...
The Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A national environmental organization filed notice recently that it will sue the Trump administration over its rejection of Pacific walrus as a threatened or endangered species. The Center for Biological Diversity called the action last week ...
BOLIVAR —Pennsylvania Game Commission Southwest Region Director Thomas A. Fazi recently announced agency employees began releasing ring-necked pheasants throughout the 10-county region. Agency-raised birds were released for the junior pheasant hunt which was scheduled earlier this ...
Mention EHD to hunters and most will just stare blankly. CWD they know but EHD? Then when you say it stands for Epizootic Hemorrhaghic Disease it sounds like a joke. What kind of name is that? It’s a serious disease going through the deer herd this year in certain parts of the state. My ...
Commentary As we turn the calendar to October, most of Pennsylvania will soon enjoy the annual transition from the green leaves of summer trees into the flaming foliage of autumn. Entire ridges will be awash in yellow, red, orange, russet or bronze as each species of tree displays its own fall ...
Commentary I know intimately the racing heart and pounding pulse hunters feel just hearing the thundering of a mature longbeard gobbler in the spring. How much greater must that thrill be when what you hear and what is charging toward your calls is a mature elk, bugling and galloping? I’ve ...
Commentary Fall officially arrived at 4:02 p.m. last Friday, even though we experienced a week of summer-like days with daytime temperatures in the 80s. I always enjoy balmy weather during autumn, and being a warm-weather guy, I would welcome those kinds of days until Christmas—and ...
Recently a friend was gushing to me about the wonderful bargains he had found on some outdoor clothes at a sale. A new camouflage jacket was reduced to just $50 and new boots for $98. I also remembered that just last year, a hunting buddy remarked that my camouflage looked like the latest ...
Commentary This Saturday, Sept. 23, is National Hunting and Fishing Day. While looking through my personal notes and journals, I realized that it has been a few years since I have written about this this annual event designed to celebrate and promote the outdoor sports and conservation. The ...
Commentary As I was idly channel surfing one late evening after the Pirates game concluded, I bumped into the documentary about Timothy Treadwell on PBS. I sat up until 3 a.m. watching it. Treadwell was a well-meaning chap who, some years ago, set out to prove that he could live unarmed ...
The Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission is seeking a significant increase in the number of bowhead whales that can be harvested annually by subsistence hunters from 11 remote villages in a changing Arctic environment. The commission wants yearly ...
Commentary During the next several weeks, thousands of visitors armed with binoculars, spotting scopes or cameras will travel to north-central Pennsylvania to view the wild elk living there. Currently, about 1,000 elk inhabit Pennsylvania’s elk range, which comprises parts of Elk, McKean, ...
Commentary Anticipation is the deer hunter’s constant companion in those weeks before archery season and then rifle season. In between important football games we sandwich scouting trips, sighting in the rifle at the range, practicing with the bow and arrow in the backyard, buying new ...
From Mirror reports The Pennsylvania Game Commission recently announced a trophy bull elk that wandered south of Interstate 80 and into a chronic-wasting disease management area was euthanized by an agency wildlife conservation officer to ensure it would not bring CWD back to the elk ...
Commentary September brings not-so-subtle changes into a hunter’s psyche. The promise of the plethora of new seasons and opportunities, beginning with dove and goose seasons, quickens the heart. Things smell differently too in September and intensify as the weeks pass. A chill in the air ...
By Matt Brown The Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. — Wildlife advocates and a Montana Indian tribe have asked a U.S. court to restore protections for grizzly bears in and around Yellowstone National Park so that trophy hunting of the fearsome animals would not be allowed. The Northern ...
Commentary Every August I find myself wondering where the summer has gone, and this week has brought on that annual feeling of dread regarding the waning days of summertime. The arrival of September this Friday brings with it the opening days of the mourning dove and early Canada geese ...
Commentary It’s finally the end of August and the hunter can smell the upcoming seasons in the air. Everything in the woods seems especially pungent and how we savor those scents. Another great smell at this time of year are the new things we order online and how new they smell as we ...
From Mirror reports UNIVERSITY PARK — There are an estimated 600,000 living Penn State alumni in the world, and Grae Buck is doing something none of the rest are: He’s competing at the very top level of professional bass fishing, on the FLW (Fishing League Worldwide) Tour. And he is ...