Deborah Weisberg

Erie County Attorney Dan Hill joined the Pennsylvania Game Commission board in 2005 when hunters were still adjusting to the controversial deer herd reduction policy implemented by the agency years earlier.
One of Hill’s goals, he told the local press, was to help mediate hunters’ differences with the agency during a particularly contentious time. Although it would prove to be a nearly overwhelming task, a desire to seek compromise in challenging situations was one of Hill’s key strengths, according to friends and colleagues who gathered to mourn him Sept. 14, days after the 68-year-old suffered a fatal heart attack at his Fairfield Township home. 

Hundreds of minks escaped from a Northampton County farm in mid-September in an apparent act of agricultural criminal mischief.
Someone is believed to have crept to Richard H. Stahl Sons fur farm in Rockefeller Township in the wee hours of Sept. 17 and cut holes in fencing, which allowed the animals to escape. Minks were appearing in residential yards and in cornfields, and many wound up as roadkill, according to Pennsylvania Game Commission education and information officer, Lt. Aaron Morrow. 
“When I say they were everywhere, they were everywhere,” he said. “Because they had been captive minks, they didn’t know what to do.”