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Ben Moyer

Faulty assumptions on Pennsylvania fishing license sales

Fishing, National Fishing, Opinion, Pennsylvania /

We humans are prone to assumption. Often, we think we know some truth or fact, but we haven’t examined the information that prompted our position. 
I was driving home from a recent meeting when an SUV passed me, with a bundle of fishing rods visible through its back windows. Those rods, their tips jiggling along between two unknown (to me) points in Pennsylvania, piqued my brain out of blank highway-mode, and I began ruminating about fishing license sales, and what we may be assuming about that important statistic.

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Hoping tiny snails are native in Pennsylvania waters of Ohio River

Featured, Features, Fishing, National Fishing, Nature Page & Night Sky, Pennsylvania /

I was thinking about weeds when I noticed them – tiny mollusks, clinging to my canoe’s hull.
Sometimes, I hit a good crappie bite at Cranberry Glade, a weedy but appealing Fish & Boat Commission lake perched on a mountaintop inside State Game Land 111 in Somerset County, Pa.
The fish tend to be smallish, but if I get enough of them, their fillets are more than worth it.

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Old Crow Wetlands in Pennsylvania: Replace a replacement?

Featured, Nature Page & Night Sky, Opinion, Pennsylvania /

The Old Crow Wetlands issue near Huntingdon, Pa., embodies a weakness in our process for protecting natural spaces, wetlands specifically. 
It should be noted, though, that only those who value natural spaces, wetlands in this case, perceive a weakness. Others argue that our process of reviewing and issuing permits to developers, builders, and government agencies wishing to site projects on or near wetlands is not weak enough.

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No-kill brown trout rule in Pennsylvania warrants caution

Featured, Fishing, National Fishing, Opinion, Pennsylvania /

It is encouraging to learn of creative new initiatives in Pennsylvania trout management. For a long time, there was little real management in trout management. We raised lots of any kind of trout we could, then dumped them wherever they could live long enough for fishermen to have a go at them.
It amounted to a sort of industrialized outdoor recreation, with scant consideration of impacts on native stream ecosystems.

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Quality angling, on the fly: Catch-and-release trout fisheries have their place

Featured, Fishing, National Fishing, Opinion, Pennsylvania /

I adhere to different degrees of catch and release in different angling contexts.
For myself, catch and release is always, universally, appropriate with native trout in ours and neighboring states. These, after all, are brook trout, and though they’ve shown amazing resilience to be here at all, they are confined to shreds of their original range, and merit release after capture and careful handling.

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A new direction in Pennsylvania’s state park management

Featured, National News, Nature Page & Night Sky, News, Pennsylvania /

Visitors to some Pennsylvania state parks this spring may notice something different, and some may not like what they see. But some will.
From a wildlife perspective, big winners in this management shift should be species like ruffed grouse, white-tailed deer, and songbirds such as the golden-winged warbler, which needs shrubby (native) old-field habitats that benefit from prescribed fire and some logging.

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Invasive plants making it harder and harder on Pennsylvania wildlife

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

No observant person would dispute that popular small game species have declined in recent decades. There’s a tendency to quickly blame predatory wildlife for the collapse of pheasant, grouse, rabbit and, in some regions, wild turkey populations. There is every possibility that a newer threat is far more damaging to small game than our default scapegoat – predators.

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