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Notes off a soiled cuff: Pennsylvania Senate adds last-minute amendment to transfer $150 million from Game Fund

Featured, Hunting, Opinion, Pennsylvania /

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.

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Notes off a soiled cuff: Thoughts on Pennsylvania’s Deer Management Assistance Program

Hunting, Opinion, Pennsylvania /

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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Second species of ramp, or wild leek, found in Pennsylvania

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

The presence of a second species of ramp, Allium burdickii — commonly known as narrow-leaved wild leek — has been documented in southwest Pennsylvania by a team of Penn State researchers in a new study.
This plant species never before has been documented in the state, and the researchers suggest the discovery shows a need to protect remaining populations of the plant. The more common and well-known broader-leafed ramp species, Allium tricoccum, is widespread in the state and often collected.

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Study to test effectiveness of Pennsylvania riparian buffers

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

At a time when Pennsylvania is largely counting on riparian buffers to achieve water-quality improvements needed to meet the state’s obligations for cleaning up the Chesapeake Bay, a multidisciplinary Penn State research team is studying whether the agricultural pollution-prevention devices are working properly.

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Notes off a soiled cuff: A mountain lion roaming in Centre County, Pa.? Not so sure

Opinion, Pennsylvania /

I have been writing about the belief that wild mountain lions still exist in Pennsylvania for 45 years, and this is my latest chapter. A neighbor’s trailcam captured this image one night in early July in Benner Township, Centre County, and friends of mine believe it’s a mountain lion roaming the territory of the Nittany Lions near State College.

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A quick chat with American Sportfishing Association president Glenn Hughes

Home Page News, Quick Chats /

For nearly 90 years, the American Sportfishing Association – commonly referred to as ASA – has been leading the way for sportfishing’s future.
Glenn Hughes has been president of the association, based in New Alexandria, Virginia, for more than five years. Under his guidance, the group’s focus is on five pillars – clean water, abundant fisheries, access to those fish, trade and commerce and increasing participation in fishing. When we caught up with Hughes for a brief chat recently, he wanted to talk about the last one.

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Notes off a soiled cuff: A lot going on in Pennsylvania’s outdoors

Opinion, Pennsylvania /

Things have changed a lot in the last decade or so as millions of dollars in Marcellus shale natural gas receipts from under state game lands have flowed into Game Commission coffers.
As a result, the agency doesn’t need to raise hunting license fees in the foreseeable future. So, it will be interesting to see whether legislators give the commission the power to increase fees on its own.

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