The Pennsylvania Board of Game Commissioners is scheduled to hold their regular quarterly meeting next weekend in Harrisburg. Typically, the main agenda item for their January meeting is the proposed hunting seasons and bag limits for the upcoming year. Most years, those proposed seasons are ...

As one who has always been close to the outdoors and the natural world, the recent bout of harsh winter weather with high winds and cold temperatures brings home the reality of how tough wintertime can be. Forests that just a few months ago were green and lush while hosting a symphony of bird ...

Peyton Sylvester, 12 of Duncansville, recently shot a 6-point buck while hunting with her father, Drew, and grandfather, Don Sylvester. Peyton got the buck hunting at the family’s camp in Robisonville. She is a seventh grade student at Hollidaysburg.

Winter officially arrives this weekend in the Northern Hemisphere, at 10:03 on Sunday morning to be precise. Known as the winter solstice, it is also the shortest day of the year. Each day from then on will get a little longer until late March when the first day of spring arrives, known as ...

The regular deer season comes to a close this weekend, but because I’m composing this column with several days left in the second week, I can only report I haven’t acquired any venison for the freezer so far. But I plan to be out trying to rectify that situation before time runs out this ...

Haleigh Coppersmith, 10 of Duncansville, recently got her first bear while hunting with her dad, Kevin Coppersmith. She shot it in the Blue Knob area with a .308. It weighed in at 135 pounds. She has also had successful hunts for turkey and deer.