Forestry is very much a part of Scott Bearer’s family tree.
The Pennsylvania Game Commission’s new chief of wildlife recovery comes from a long line of woodsmen.
He learned to hunt from his father, who was chief of wildfire operations and planning for the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. His great grandfather was the first district forester of Forbes State Forest in Westmoreland County.
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