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May 29, 2025

This year, all Pennsylvania hunters can get a doe tag

This year, everyone can get an antlerless deer license in Pennsylvania.
Hunting licenses will go on sale June 23 and, for the first time, the Pennsylvania Game Commission is guaranteeing an antlerless license for all resident hunters in any wildlife management unit. The purchase must be made during the first round prior to July 14. The guarantee is the latest in a progression of changes since the agency first sold antlerless licenses over the counter three years ago.

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Ohio’s spring turkey harvest a bit ahead of last year after South Zone closes

When the South Zone of Ohio closed, wild turkey hunters across Ohio had checked 15,768 birds in the spring 2025 season, according to the Ohio DNR (ODNR) Division of Wildlife.
The spring wild turkey hunting season concluded in the 83 counties that comprise the South Zone on May 18. Hunting in the five counties of the Northeast Zone (Ashtabula, Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake, and Trumbull counties) continues through Sunday, June 1. During the 2024 spring turkey season, hunters bagged 15,426 birds through the corresponding date.

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‘Duck Dynasty’ patriarch Phil Robertson dies at age 79

Phil Robertson, who turned his small duck calling interest in the sportsman’s paradise of northern Louisiana into a big business and conservative cultural phenomenon, died Sunday, according to his family. He was 79.
Robertson’s family announced in December on their Unashamed With the Robertson Family podcast that the patriarch of the clan had Alzheimer’s disease. The statement on social media from Robertson’s daughter-in-law didn’t mention how he died.

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Steve Pollick: Bald eagle fledglings ready to take flight

Watching young bald eagles fledge is like being a father overseeing his kid’s first attempt to ride a bicycle, tottering training wheels and all.
I have been a volunteer eagle-nest watcher weekly since early February for a handful of nests monitored by the Sandusky County Park District in Ohio. Now at the end of May is when five eaglets in three of my nests have grown, precociously, to adult size. They still have four years of growing pains and perils to navigate before mating and raising young themselves, but it all starts with the first flight off the nest.

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Earlier pheasant hatch starting across Iowa, with peak still expected in June

The first reports of pheasant chick broods have been coming in to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) over the past two weeks, marking the beginning of the 2025 hatching season.
The mild winter and favorable April weather led to some early nesting across much of the state and while May is primarily an incubation month, June is when the peak hatch occurs.

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