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Deborah Weisberg

Bradford County, Pa., hunting camp celebrates 100 years

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Steve Watkins grew up in Monroeton, Bradford County, Pa., where his grandparents owned the Marcy Hotel, a popular local landmark.
He and his father hunted bears in the region’s “endless” mountains, and his grand-uncle was a founding member of the Monroeton Gun Club, a 75-acre camp in the midst of 26,000-acre State Game Land 12 on Barclay Mountain.
Although the original cabin is gone, the club is very much alive and celebrating its centennial with a members-only pig roast July 20.

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Pennsylvania hunting license sales go better this summer than in 2023

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Hunting license sales went smoothly when round one began Monday, June 24, according to the Pennsylvania Game Commission, which rolled out a new process that staggers the demand for antlerless tags.
Although more than 30,000 buyers were in an online queue 10 minutes after the system’s 8 a.m. launch to purchase tags for the state’s three most coveted wildlife management units, the commission deemed the demand “manageable,” said agency spokesman Travis Lau.

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Rundown bridge gets facelift, becomes popular fishing spot on Peters Creek in Pennsylvania

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A defunct bridge on popular Peters Creek in southwestern Pennsylvania has been transformed into a spot where children and handicapped anglers can target stocked trout and other species.
It is the latest milestone in the transformation of a once-beleaguered waterway into a viable recreational resource. The small decommissioned span at Snowden and Piney Fork roads in South Park Township had become an eyesore covered with graffiti and littered with trash when state Rep. Andrew Kuzma, R-Allegheny and Washington counties, envisioned putting it to use.

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Pennsylvania Game Commission schedules free target shooting event for July 20 in Lehigh County

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The Pennsylvania Game Commission is hoping to attract hundreds to a heavily-hyped free shooting event in Lehigh County July 20.
The family-friendly Learn to Shoot Event at State Game Land 205 in New Tripoli will feature one-on-one instruction in archery, shotgun, rifle, air rifle, and clay birds, plus gun cleaning and safety.

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Thanks to cameras, Pittsburgh residents seeing bears

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Mary Mele Abel awoke June 8 to find Ring camera footage of a black bear lumbering through the backyard of her Pittsburgh home on the edge of Frick Park. 
Although she had once captured video of a deer that had fallen into her fish pond, the images of a bruin in the wee hours of the morning was a little surreal.
“It was unbelievable, since we live in the city and the houses are so close together here,” said Abel.

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CWD rates in Pennsylvania’s south-central counties nearing that of hardest-hit areas of the country

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Prior research has identified 10 different strains of chronic wasting disease, the neurological condition killing white-tailed deer in Pennsylvania and around the world.
The expanding range of CWD in North America and its presence in South Korea, Canada and Scandinavian countries could result in millions of infected cervids – primarily deer and elk – with novel strains continuing to emerge, according to the findings of researchers at the University of Alberta and other institutions, and published in Cell and Tissue Research.

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Pennsylvania slated for biggest chunk of federal mine-reclamation funds

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Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Pennsylvania is slated to receive the lion’s share of federal funds aimed at cleaning up legacy coal-related pollution in a new round of allocations recently announced by the U.S. Department of the Interior.
Of the $750 million earmarked for reclamation of abandoned mine fields in 22 states and the Navajo Nation, $244,786,476 has been set aside for Pennsylvania. The next largest single allocation, of 140,683,878, will be available to West Virginia.

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Pennsylvania Game Commission updates CWD data after Armstrong County detection

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Chronic wasting disease continues to spread in Pennsylvania, in both numbers and geographic range, according to just-released data from the Pennsylvania Game Commission.
Since July 1, 2023, the agency has detected more than 440 new CWD cases, compared with 426 confirmed in 2022-23. CWD is a fatal neurological disease affecting white-tailed deer and threatening elk in Pennsylvania. Nearly 11,000 specimens were tested in the current sampling year, including over 7,000 from hunter-harvested deer. Of the 440 positives found, 291 were from hunter kills.

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Pittsburgh officials expand deer hunting program in parks

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City officials plan to expand controlled bowhunting to three additional parks this fall in an effort to manage Pittsburgh’s spiraling population of white-tailed deer.
They also are considering augmenting the hunting program with professional sharpshooters.
In a pilot launched last September with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 30 archers harvested 108 deer in Frick and Riverview parks through January, according to a debrief report from Mayor Ed Gainey’s office. Archers are being recruited to also hunt Schenley, Highland, and Emerald View parks in the same time frame in 2024-25.

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