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January 26, 2025

At long last, ice fishing occurring across most of Pennsylvania

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The deep freeze of recent weeks had ice anglers across Pennsylvania dusting off the tip-ups, augers, and other gear they hadn’t used in at least two years.
And with more frosty weather in the forecast, hardwater action may have been just heating up.
“It’s shaping up to be a pretty good season,” Tackle Shack’s Mike Haraschak reported Jan. 17, when Tioga County lakes offered plenty of fishable ice. “People haven’t been able to ice fish much the past couple of winters, so everyone has the itch to go out.”

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Andrew Zysek: Remembering a long winter on a trap line

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The following story took place during the 2018-19 trapping season on a section of federal lands called the Iroquois National Wildlife Refuge. I had been going through a rough time at this point of my life and was drifting from place to place, and really didn’t have a home other than my trapping cabin. The entire fur season was mine to do as I wished.
I was trapping well throughout the season and had an ample amount of fur stacked up. It was mid-January, the ice was forming and was thick enough to walk on.

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Nature Smart: What to know about avian keratin disorder

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Often when we view nature, we assume that everything in a critter’s life is smooth and easy. No major challenges – just a clean, natural way of life devoid of the stress that we humans expect. I think such assumptions miss the mark. I was thinking about this while editing images from a recent tour to New Mexico.

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Jimmy Carter remembered as many things, including a sportsman

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Inaugurated in 1977, Carter only spent four years of his lifetime as president and is remembered positively and negatively for a wide range of events that occurred on his watch, including the Camp David Peace Accords, a nuclear arms treaty between the U.

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