The high court heard arguments April 9 in a suit filed in 2021 by the Punxsutawney Hunting Club and the Pitch Pine Hunting Club, asserting that the commission and game warden Mark Gritzer repeatedly violated their private property rights with warrantless searches.
Clubs’ lawsuit against Pennsylvania Game Commission in Pa. Supreme Court Read More »
The slated closing of several federal campgrounds in Pennsylvania is spurring a surge in reservations at state parks and forests.
The Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources reports a nearly 30% increase in campsite reservations in March compared to the same time last year, as a result of the planned shuttering of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers facilities at Raystown Lake in Huntingdon County, and Cowanesque and Tioga-Hammond lakes in Tioga County amid a growing enthusiasm for outdoors recreation.
Pennsylvania sees record demand for state campsites after federal closings Read More »
Citing habitat loss and fragmentation as the number one threat to Pennsylvania wildlife, conservationists are calling on elected officials to prioritize the creation of wildlife corridors across the state.
In a newly released report, Wildlife Corridors: How Reconnecting Habitat Is Protecting Pennsylvania’s Native Species, the non-profit PennEnvironment describes how development and road construction are impacting species ranging from brook trout to black bears and outlines innovative ways to improve connectivity.
Report says Pennsylvania lags behind in corridors for wildlife Read More »
As she prepared for an April 3 court hearing aimed at getting back Baby the deer, Tammy Shiery expressed mixed feelings about the intense publicity sparked by her strange saga.
“It’s been a mixed blessing,” said Shiery, 64, of Bullskin Township, Fayette County. “On the one hand I’m happy the word has gotten out, but on the other I feel uncomfortable about some of the coverage.”
Although he couldn’t have known it as a child, growing up on Pennsylvania’s famed Yellow Breeches Creek sparked in G. Warren Elliott a lifelong interest in fisheries conservation.
The Pennsylvania citizen representative to the Chesapeake Bay Commission, who recently completed terms as Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission board president, and as vice-chair of the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council, Elliott spent countless childhood hours exploring the creek and teaching himself to catch trout on doughballs, worms and a $5 fishing rod.
Sportsman profile: Pennsylvania’s G. Warren Elliott devoted to aquatic resources Read More »
With a sharp rebuke to the Pennsylvania Game Commission, Fayette County District Attorney Mike Aubele withdrew all charges against a Connellsville woman forced to give up the pet deer she named Baby – but the story has not ended there.
While Tammy Shiery, 64, of Bullskin Township, no longer faces misdemeanor counts of resisting arrest, obstructing the administration of law or other government function, or disorderly conduct, or a summary count of unlawful taking of game, she has vowed “to move mountains” to get Baby back.
New twists emerge in Pennsylvania case involving pet deer that was confiscated Read More »
Highly pathogenic avian influenza – often referred to as HPAI – recently was confirmed in American crows in Allegheny County, adding to the number of cases surfacing across Pennsylvania.
About 50 dead crows were found on and alongside railroad tracks in the city of Pittsburgh at the end of January and reported to the Pennsylvania Game Commission. As part of its field investigation, the agency swabbed three of the crows, which were confirmed to have the highly contagious, deadly disease.
Tests disclose Pittsburgh crows died from avian flu Read More »
Maryland officials are investigating the death of a Pennsylvania man who fell through the ice on a side-by-side UTV at Deep Creek Lake in western Maryland Saturday, Feb. 22.
David Theodore Linsenbigler, 58, of Greensburg, Westmoreland County, was found submerged with the UTV in the 3,900-acre reservoir, according to Maryland Natural Resources police public information officer Hunter Dortenzo.
Pennsylvania man dies when ATV crashes through the ice Read More »
A Fayette County, Pa., woman has been charged in connection with keeping a wild deer as a pet and resisting its removal from her property.
Tammy Shiery, 64, was arrested Feb. 25 when she tried to prevent state game wardens from seizing a two-year-old buck the Pennsylvania Game Commission alleges she illegally adopted and kept at her Bullskin Township home. The deer, which she named Baby, had been castrated and surgically altered to prevent antler growth, according to commission southwest region information and education supervisor Andy Harvey.
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