The archery deer season in Pennsylvania opens this weekend at a half hour before sunrise on Saturday and continues through Friday, Nov. 20. The winter archery deer season will then commence the day after Christmas and continue through Jan. 24 for those die-hard bowhunters who still have an ...
A few days ago as I was reading through some of my notes for an upcoming article, it struck me that it is already squirrel season. In fact, the season for those tree-dwelling critters opened on Sept. 12, so as of this weekend it has actually been open for two weeks. Traditionally, the ...
By John Hartsock jhartsock@altoonamirror.com While the trout season’s annual opening day on the first Saturday of each April is one of the biggest events on the calendar for the state’s sportsmen, trout stocking for the year by the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission’s waterway ...
HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. — A reptile believed to be struggling in sand at a Southern California beach was simply making history: a sea turtle laying eggs on the U.S. West Coast. And three days later, there were more. An olive ridley turtle — maybe the same one — laid eggs on Sept. 19, a few miles away near the Huntington Beach Pier in Orange County, authorities said. “This is the first-ever recorded natural nesting for any sea turtle species” on the West Coast, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s West Coast Fisheries division said on Facebook. Olive ...
Our system of state game lands owned by Pennsylvania Game Commission is a remarkable concept that has benefitted the wildlife and citizens of our state for nearly 100 years. Now comprising more than 1.5 million acres, the primary purpose of these state game lands is wildlife habitat ...
She’s a Grammy Award-winning international superstar, and now, Taylor Swift is also a genus of plant-feeding insects from Australia that were previously unknown to science. Sarah Schroeder, a UC Riverside doctoral student in entomology, hopes that by naming these insects after the singer, ...
