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August 12, 2025

Sundays out for spring gobbler season, Pennsylvania Game Commission decides

While Pennsylvania Game Commission biologists believe the addition of Sunday hunting won’t negatively impact wildlife populations, there is an exception.
The Game Commission board approved opening Sunday hunting to the fall seasons, but when it comes to the spring, gobblers are off the table. During her presentation to the board, turkey biologist Mary Jo Casalena recommended the board not include the spring gobbler season for Sunday hunting.

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In northern Minnesota, Bemidji community puts seniors on fish

The enthusiasm youngsters display when they’re introduced to the world of fishing can be infectious. Doing something as enjoyable as catching your first perch, sunfish, or pike can be a memorable experience, and in many cases that moment can create an angling itch that will need to be scratched for a lifetime.
However, that itch can still persist well past the age at which many senior citizens have the ability to scratch it.

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Yellow perch bite firing up on Lake Erie’s Western Basin

After a cooler early summer, the surface water temperatures in Lake Erie’s Western Basin exceeded 80 degrees following weeks of scorching temperatures in the 90s, as recorded in Toledo.
Spiny water flea densities decline under these circumstances and to satisfy their ravenous appetites as their metabolism red lines, yellow perch switch from almost exclusively feeding on them and insect larvae to smaller prey fish.

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Shooting range is the source of lead in Pennsylvania’s Blue Hole Creek

A shooting range in Somerset County has been named as the source of lead pollution in Blue Hole Creek, a once-pristine waterway in Pennsylvania’s Forbes State Forest that hikers routinely used to slake their thirst.
Highlands Sporting Clays – a three-course range owned by Pittsburgh Pirates owner Bob Nutting – has been issued a notice of violation by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection for lead contamination of the creek, an Exceptional Value waterway in the Youghiogheny River watershed.

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