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, ...
HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Board of Game Commissioners will meet on Friday, Sept. 25, at the Game Commission’s Harrisburg headquarters, 2001 Elmerton Ave. This meeting is one day only and will begin at 8:30 a.m. with public comments. Those wishing to speak may register beginning at 7:45 a.m. on the day of the meeting. Speakers will be called in the order in which they registered. Public comments offered at board meetings are limited to five minutes. PowerPoint presentations are not permitted. Following the conclusion of public comment, the board will take up its regular ...
On a recent canoe trip to the remote upper reaches of the Narraguagus River, Ellie Mason saw prime Atlantic salmon habitat everywhere. Though small, the river and its tributaries are some of the wildest in Maine, largely undeveloped and surrounded by forest. There are shady refuges for fish ...
