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March 11, 2026

Two special tags lead to two huge bull elk for Pennsylvania hunters

Featured, Features, Home Page News, Hunting, National Hunting, Pennsylvania /

Pennsylvania has three scheduled hunting seasons for elk each fall. With a second vote of commissioners in April, a fourth regular firearms season will be added in October. Almost all of the nearly 150 tags are awarded to applicants through a lottery, with bonus points awarded for each year applicants are not drawn.
However, two special bull elk tags are awarded through different processes that generate large sums of money for elk and other wildlife habitat.

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Notes off a soiled cuff: Assessing a huge problem with ‘forever chemicals’ in Pennsylvania waters

Featured, Fishing, Home Page News, National Fishing, Nature Page & Night Sky, Opinion, Pennsylvania /

Just before this issue’s deadline, when the state Department of Environmental Protection, the Pennsylvania Department of Health and the Fish & Boat Commission issued a “Do Not Eat” advisory for all species of fish living in two streams because of PFOS (forever chemicals), we thought we knew which streams were tainted.
Because in a recent edition of Outdoor News, you’ll likely recall, we had the headline, “PF&BC is monitoring PFAS at hatchery,” atop a story reporting on concerns about forever chemicals being detected in waters feeding a Fish & Boat Commission hatchery in Centre County. But it turns out we were jumping to conclusions.

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