More than a few lawmakers want to initiate actions that affect hunting, trapping and fishing. Mostly they mean well; sometimes they don’t. And it’s not just in Pennsylvania.
Invasive woody plants present a major ecological challenge in eastern U.S. forests by outcompeting native species and spreading quickly, forming dense thickets that crowd out native plants and disrupt ecosystems.
Land managers have tried, with some success, to use prescribed fire to kill them, but is it effective?
We’ve had a lot of strange messages from readers over the years, but this one left in late May takes the cake:
“I’m calling about a dead deer right along Rt. 119 just as you’re leaving Jefferson County, going into Clearfield County,” the caller said.
Early estimates put economic losses for Pennsylvania’s crop industry this spring between $150 million and $200 million.
Too many white-tailed deer are damaging forests in the U.S. by eating young plants before they can grow, limiting forest regeneration and damaging biodiversity.
To mitigate this challenge, the Pennsylvania Game Commission implemented an initiative called the Deer Management Assistance Program that helps landowners manage deer populations by allowing hunters to harvest more female deer where they are overabundant.
Pennsylvania sits astride two major drainages: Streams in the west drain into the Ohio River, and that water ends up in the Gulf of America; the rest of the state drains into the Atlantic Ocean. Their native fish species are different.
This fact complicates the Fish & Boat Commission’s effort to restore blue catfish to the Ohio River basin and protect flathead catfish there.
Notes off a soiled cuff: Pennsylvania has a catfish conundrum Read More »
In 1999, when the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service issued its Light Geese Conservation Order – which allows a special season to harvest more of the overabundant white birds – snow geese populations had grown so large they were degrading the habitat in their arctic breeding grounds.
However, according to Ducks Unlimited, recent data suggest that these populations have now collapsed to levels not seen in 30 years.
Pennsylvania expected to remove conservation order season for light geese in spring ’27 Read More »
To meet global demand for American ginseng – the medicinal plant traditionally collected in the forests of Appalachia and traded and used internationally – the plant now is commonly cultivated on forest farms in the U.S. Northeast.
But, according to a team of researchers at Penn State and James Madison University, much of the seed for that agroforestry enterprise is coming from field-based, artificial-shade ginseng farms in Wisconsin and Ontario, Canada — and it may be influencing the genetics of naturally occurring ginseng.
Seed from Midwest ginseng farms planted in Pennsylvania forest Read More »
The Pennsylvania Board of Fish & Boat Commissioners gave preliminary approval to three significant changes in fisheries regulations at their meeting April 27.
First, commissioners voted to authorize the publication of proposed rulemaking to boost the minimum size limit for harvesting trout. Under this proposal, the minimum size limit for trout goes from 7 to 9 inches.
Pennsylvania commission takes a first vote on trout, catfish changes Read More »
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