Volunteering as a Penn State Extension Master Watershed Steward has enabled Tim Matthews to combine his skills and interests and engage with his community to design family-friendly projects aimed at protecting and improving the environment.
Matthews was a science teacher and then a systems and software engineer before completing the Master Watershed Steward training in 2022.
An upstate company’s proposal to use an experimental process to try to clean chemical-laden soil has prompted opposition that focuses on the potential environmental impact, including on areas that are popular with New York anglers, hunters, trappers and birdwatchers.
Clean Earth Inc., of Fort Edward, has applied for a New York State permit to treat soil contaminated with PFAS at its plant that sits a few hundred yards from the Champlain Canal and a short distance from the Washington County Grasslands Wildlife Management Area, which is seasonal home to a number of endangered or rare raptors.
Tim Lesmeister and freshwater fishing hall of famer Dave Genz
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The recently formed Pennsylvania Board of Game Commissioners’ Wildlife Management Committee makes sense, but the timing could be better.
As for the committee itself, it consists of five commissioners who discuss various proposals and decide if they should advance to the agenda for the entire board to vote on at the next quarterly meeting. Having a committee focused on a specific area is nothing new in the realm of fish or wildlife management.
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Once the deer seasons are over, I used to only focus my attention on hunting rabbits and ice fishing. That was until I tried hunting coyotes. Now, even though the other two still take up most of my free time, I also always try to find time to venture out for a little coyote calling.
My first coyote hunt was years ago, with a group of local farmers who preferred to hit the roads at the break of dawn in their pickups, scouring the fields for coyotes or the roadsides for fresh tracks.
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Rob Drieslein and Tim Spielman recap the highlights from the
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