Your Daily Outdoor Update – July 13th
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July 13, 2015
Sunday hunting in Pennsylvania – the pluses and minuses
Another bill is being introduced to legalize Sunday hunting in Pennsylvania – if passed, there will likely be gains as well as losses.
Pennsylvania’s public lands offer fruity bonanza for wildlife and people
Take a walk on the wild side and enjoy some of the fresh fruits and berries that grow wild on public land.
SAFE Act registrations show few complying
Albany — A group opposed to New York’s two-year-old SAFE Act gun law says registration data shows only a fraction of gun owners complied with a requirement to register firearms reclassified as assault weapons. NY2A, which advocates for Second Amendment rights, says newly reported data show only 23,847 people registered 44,485 firearms. Gov. Andrew Cuomo,
CRP options will trigger boost in acreage
Washington — Just five years ago, conservation acreage nationwide in the federal Conservation Reserve Program topped 31 million acres. Due in part to reductions called for the most recent Farm Bill, which requires a cap of 24 million acres by 2017, enrollment had decreased to 24.3 million acres as of April 31. But Tom Vilsack,
Bison project moving ahead with university, conservation partners
Franklin Grove, Ill. — After a nearly 200-year absence, Illinois is once again a home where the buffalo – bison, that is – roam. And the animals are already settling in. The discovery of a bison calf this spring surprised staff at The Nature Conservancy’s Nachusa Grasslands prairie. “The first one was definitely a surprise,”
