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Shooting range is the source of lead in Pennsylvania’s Blue Hole Creek

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A shooting range in Somerset County has been named as the source of lead pollution in Blue Hole Creek, a once-pristine waterway in Pennsylvania’s Forbes State Forest that hikers routinely used to slake their thirst.
Highlands Sporting Clays – a three-course range owned by Pittsburgh Pirates owner Bob Nutting – has been issued a notice of violation by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection for lead contamination of the creek, an Exceptional Value waterway in the Youghiogheny River watershed.

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Stocking of Pennsylvania Class A trout stream in Potter County causes controversy

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Despite objections from former state fisheries officials and two board members, the Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission is moving ahead with a plan to stock a Class A stream in Potter County while monitoring the impacts on wild trout.
At its quarterly meeting in July, the agency’s board of commissioners approved by a 7-2 vote, a notice of proposed rulemaking for stocking a three-mile stretch of Freeman Run and studying the effect on the reproducing fishery for five years.

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Two Pennsylvania teens help win fly-fishing gold for U.S.

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Two Pennsylvania boys helped win gold for the United States at the 22nd FIPS-Mouche World Youth Fly Fishing Championship in Idaho Falls, Idaho, in July.
Justin Hardie, 19, of Mercer, Mercer County, and Landon Cook, 18, of Marion Center, Indiana County, were on the five-member U.S. team that placed first out of eight teams, including second-place Poland. It is the third consecutive year the U.S. has finished on top.

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Unexpected discovery of shallow-water ciscoes in Pennsylvania lake may help replenish Lake Erie

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A chance discovery at a privately-owned Poconos area lake could mean the return of shallow-water ciscoes to Lake Erie where they haven’t been seen in more than 60 years.
The salmonid’s restoration also could bode well for lake trout, another Erie native, which, coincidentally, stopped reproducing at about the same time ciscoes disappeared. Ciscoes were the lake trout’s preferred prey.

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CWD-positive deer found not far from Pittsburgh

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A white-tailed deer in an advanced stage of chronic wasting disease was discovered near the Allegheny County, Pa., border in early June, stoking concerns about CWD’s potential to spread to urban-suburban Pittsburgh.
The emaciated doe was found, and euthanized, in Freeport, Armstrong County just inside Disease Management Area 3, about 25 miles north of Pittsburgh.

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Pennsylvania law set to remove abandoned, derelict boats

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Pennsylvania has taken a major step toward removing derelict, abandoned and at-risk boats from waters across the state.
Legislation aimed at empowering local authorities to rid waterways of these environmental and navigational hazards was signed into law by Gov. Josh Shapiro July 1. HB 103 amends Title 30 of the Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Code to clearly define at-risk, derelict, and abandoned vessels (ADVs); authorize municipal officials to identify,  document and remove such boats; and impose tougher penalties on errant owners.

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Pennsylvania’s Woodbourne Rod and Gun Club, one of the northeast’s oldest, celebrates 100 years

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Members of the Woodbourne Rod and Gun Club in Pike County, Pa., will celebrate their centennial in September with a pig roast.
It was on Labor Day weekend in 1925 that Jacob Scheese and his brothers, of Woodbourne, Bucks County, purchased property in Milford to build a cabin, from which their descendants hunt and fish today.
“It’s still standing,” said Jacob’s grandson, Ron Scheese, of the one-story timber structure he and others proudly maintain.

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Centre County kayaker drowns in Pennsylvania’s Youghiogheny River

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A Centre County man died while kayaking with friends on the Youghiogheny River at Ohiopyle State Park in Fayette County, Pa., June 13.
Michael Barney, 43, of State College, drowned when his kayak got caught in rapids on the lower Youghiogheny, according to Fayette County coroner Dr. Bob Baker, who was dispatched at 7:19 p.m. Barney was a longtime whitewater enthusiast who frequented the river.

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Huge Schuylkill River flathead will not be a Pennsylvania record, at least not officially

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It might have been one for the Pennsylvania books – the record books – if only Dan Brown had been able to locate a certified scale for his mammoth flathead catfish.
The South Philadelphia angler landed what he claims was a 72.5-pound, 50-inch behemoth on the Schuylkill River June 1 while fishing his usual weekend spot, but he couldn’t find a place to get it officially weighed, so he released it back into the water.

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