HARRISBURG — In an effort to make Hunter-Trapper Education more accessible to students across the state, the Pennsylvania House of Representatives recently approved House Bill 2460 (180-22), sponsored by House Game & Fisheries Committee Chair Rep. Anita Kulik (D-Allegheny), to provide ...
The Pennsylvania Game Commission recently announced that it sees an anticipated decline in the number of non-residents applying for an elk license because of several new changes to the program. The agency Commission is offering such things as 155 elk tags, including 80 for bulls, over four hunting seasons this year. The deadline to apply is July 12. As of July 7, the agency has received applications from 35,712 hunters across the country, including 10,975 applications from people who didn’t apply last year. Also, 5,074 people applied for the first time. As of this time last year, ...
As we celebrate the 250th anniversary of our country’s founding this weekend, there will be plenty of images and displays depicting our national symbol, the bald eagle. When the bald eagle was adopted as our national symbol in 1782, as many as 100,000 mating pairs of eagles may have ...
HARRISBURG –– The Pennsylvania Game Commission is again asking the public to report sightings of all wild turkeys they see this summer. The annual Wild Turkey Summer Sighting Survey runs now through Aug. 31. Public participation is important for wild turkey population management. These ...
NORTH VANCOUVER, British Columbia — World Cup fans in Vancouver took to the great outdoors recently with a mountaintop watch party accessed by a gondola. The match between England and Panama was shown on a big screen atop Grouse Mountain, a 4,100-foot mountain that’s part of the Pacific ...
The Big Hole River, a blue-ribbon fishery that’s become a focal point in a years-long debate over nuisance algae growth, is poised to receive an impairment designation. At an open-house meeting in Divide this week, the Montana Department of Environmental Quality announced that the Big Hole, a mellow freestone river critical to southwest Montana’s outdoor recreation and agriculture economies, is struggling as a result of ecologically detrimental nutrient loading. The term DEQ is using in its discussion of the Big Hole is eutrophication, which describes the link between algae growth ...
