With all the cold weather we’ve experienced this winter, I was frequently asked if I go ice fishing or if I like ice fishing. The short answer to both of those questions is “not really.” When I was younger, I had several friends who were enthusiastic ice fishermen, so I usually would ...
There’s no need to remind anyone that we are experiencing a “good, old-fashioned winter” throughout Pennsylvania. A foot and a half of snow blankets most of our region, and except for one day this past week, temperatures haven’t been above the freezing mark for several weeks. Given ...
Last weekend, the Pennsylvania Board of Game Commissioners held its first regular meeting of 2026. At their January meeting each year, the commissioners give preliminary approval to the slate of hunting seasons and bag limits for the upcoming year and then give final approval to that schedule ...
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 almost a carbon copy of the previous year and, with possibly a few tweaks here-and-there, are given final approval at the next meeting in April. Last Thursday, however, the Pennsylvania Game Commission (PGC) announced that the Board of Commissioners would be considering two proposals regarding the ...
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 calls now appear mostly stark and deserted, little more than a collection of lonely, bare trees. Fields that hosted countless wildflowers, alive with visiting bees and butterflies, are also now flat and mostly vacant except for a few lonesome stalks of dried weeds waving in the winter wind. ...
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.
