Interesting how the controversy over the Game Commission’s proposed reintroduction of the pine marten is playing out. High-profile opponents to the plan are coming forward, and we predict more will follow. Look for the National Wild Turkey Federation and the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation to follow.
Opposition to the Pennsylvania Game Commission’s proposal to reintroduce the American marten to Pennsylvania forests is growing.
Shortly after the Nov. 15 end to the agency’s public comment period on the plan to bring back the little predator, Ben Jones, president of the Ruffed Grouse Society and American Woodcock Society, weighed in against the proposal.
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When it comes to deer hunting, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin are a lot alike. Both states have long, rich traditions, huge deer herds and hundreds of thousands of avid, dedicated hunters.
And, unfortunately, both states have chronic wasting disease spreading in their deer herds as well as rapidly aging and shrinking hunter numbers.
When his buddy Mike Munson took up Tenkara fly-fishing in wild-trout streams around his hometown of Jones Mills in Westmoreland County last winter, TJ Platt looked on with interest.
Tenkara is a method of fly- fishing that originated in the mountains of Japan and has now developed into a modern pastime. It uses quite long rods, fixed lengths of casting line attached to the rod-tip and simple, impressionistic wet fly patterns.
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The once bitter debate about whether crossbow use should be allowed in the fall archery deer season has cooled a lot in recent years because so many hunters use them to enjoy the autumn woods.
Longtime reader Dave Lewis, of Chicora, Pa., is grateful to the Game Commission for making the decision more than a decade ago to allow crossbows in bow season.
“There has been so much angry discussion on the topic of crossbows over the years – and say what you want – but on Saturday, Sept. 30, this 71-year-old man got his third very worthy buck with a crossbow in the last 12 years,” he said. “Without crossbows, that would not be physically possible for me – and many like me.”
A new study shows that men who enjoy fishing as a hobby have better mental health.
The study, conducted by researchers at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, Ulster University and Queen’s University, Belfast, found that fishing on a regular basis contributed to a lower risk of depression, anxiety, suicidal thoughts and other mental health conditions.
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Ironically, the idea to raid the Game Fund to help resolve the state’s budget impasse may have been given to state senators by the leader of the Game Commission.
A few months ago, when the commission’s Executive Director Bryan Burhans was giving the commission’s annual report to the Senate Game and Fisheries Committee, he stressed the great fiscal position the agency enjoys. That caught the attention of the panel’s chairman, Sen. Greg Rothman, R-Cumberland, Dauphin and Perry.
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Shortly before this issue’s deadline, the day before the Labor Day weekend, the state Senate appears to have blatantly and shamefully blindsided hunters when it added a last-minute amendment to House Bill 1300, meant to solve the state’s budget crisis.
If enacted, the move would transfer $150 million from the Game Fund maintained by the Pennsylvania Game Commission. This proposal was made with little advanced notice, was attached to a broad appropriations bill and passed through the Senate in one day.
We have heard so much anger expressed by hunters in the weeks since the Game Commission announced that it is, for the first time, issuing Deer Management Assistance Program tags in state game lands to harvest more does to allow forests to regenerate.
The angry hunters believe there are already too few deer on most tracts of public land.
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