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Fish information flowing in for Pennsylvania agency with new “Notice of Stocking” regulation in effect

Featured, Fishing, Home Page News, National Fishing, National News, Nature Page & Night Sky, News, Pennsylvania /

Before last year, Pennsylvania was the only state in the Northeast that didn’t require some form of documentation when individuals or entities wanted to stock fish in state waters. As a result, Fish & Boat Commission leaders lamented, they had no idea what was being put in where.
But a regulation approved by the commission’s board of directors last summer that went into effect Jan. 1 has made a huge difference, according to Timothy Schaeffer, agency executive director. It requires a “Notice of Stocking” to be filed with the commission prior to fish going into any water.

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A quick chat with Sara Fitzsimmons of the American Chestnut Foundation

Featured, Home Page News, Nature Page & Night Sky, Pennsylvania, Quick Chats /

She has worked with the foundation (tacf.org) from her position as a research technician at Penn State University since 2003, assisting chestnut growers and researchers throughout the Appalachian Mountains. Born and raised in Hinton, in southern West Virginia, she studied biology at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey.

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Notes off a soiled cuff: CWD problem in Pennsylvania steadily growing worse

Featured, Home Page News, Hunting, National Hunting, Opinion, Pennsylvania /

The situation with chronic wasting disease in Pennsylvania is steadily growing worse, Game Commission board members and staff stressed at their recent meeting. And it’s happening quickly.
In Wildlife Management Unit 4A, there were three CWD detections in 2012, agency CWD biologist Andrea Korman pointed out, and today one out of every three adult deer harvested in the unit are positive.

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Pennsylvania Game Commission mulls plan that would change ratio for mentored youth program

Featured, Hunting, National Hunting, National News, News, Pennsylvania /

A common complaint from readers of this publication and others is that families with more than one young hunter often can’t take advantage of the mentored youth hunting program.
Now the Pennsylvania Game Commission has taken a step toward resolving that problem.

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Deer season opening day under review in Pennsylvania

Featured, Home Page News, Hunting, National Hunting, National News, News, Pennsylvania /

For Pennsylvania hunters still longing for a return to a Monday deer season opener, the Game Commission’s April 13 meeting was a bad news/good news affair.
First, the bad news: Commissioners approved opening day of the firearms deer season as Saturday, Nov. 30.
The good news? In a major concession to hunters still angry about the change from a Monday opener five years ago, President Commissioner Scott Foradora announced that the opening day … day … will be reviewed.

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Pine marten comeback plan is delayed ‘indefinitely’ in Pennsylvania

Featured, Home Page News, Hunting, National News, Nature Page & Night Sky, News, Pennsylvania /

Responding to stubborn opposition by hunters, Pennsylvania game commissioners again postponed action on a plan to reintroduce pine martens to the state.

The decision to “indefinitely delay” acceptance of the American Marten Reintroduction and Management Plan came in a split vote by board members. Voting to postpone adoption of the plan to return the native furbearer to the state were commissioners Robert Schwalm, Scott Foradora, Allen Di Marco, Stanley Knick, Todd Pride and Dennis Fredericks. Opposing postponement were commissioners Michael Mitrick, Haley Sankey and Kristen Koppenhafer.

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Notes off a soiled cuff: Hat tip to Pennsylvania reader who disagrees

Featured, Hunting, Opinion, Pennsylvania /

Every now and then, I like to tip my hat to a reader, especially one who cleverly disagrees with me. This issue, the nod goes to Theodore Hildabrand, of Eighty Four, Pa.
He doesn’t like it that Bryan Burhans, Game Commission executive director, has been roughed up lately by state senators about his agency’s explosive growth in spending and the hiring of a lobbying firm. And he really didn’t like our reporting on the issues.

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Forest, stream habitats keep energy exchanges in balance, global team of researchers finds

Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, National News, Nature Page & Night Sky, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin /

Forests and streams are separate but linked ecosystems, existing side by side, with energy and nutrients crossing their porous borders and flowing back and forth between them.
For example, leaves fall from trees, enter streams, decay and feed aquatic insects. Those insects emerge from the waters and are eaten by birds and bats. An international team led by Penn State researchers has now found that these ecosystems appear to keep the energy exchanges in balance — a finding that the scientists called surprising.

Forest, stream habitats keep energy exchanges in balance, global team of researchers finds Read More »

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