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Wednesday, August 19th, 2026

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Sportsmen Since 1968

Jeff Mulhollem

Notes off a soiled cuff: Pennsylvania Game Commission sponsors dirt-track races to promote hunting license sales

A reader called our office last week to report what he believed to be an indiscretion by the Game Commission. The agency, he said, is sponsoring a dirt track race car!
This on top of “wasting all that money” sending employees to the National Wild Turkey Federation Conference in Nashville. The money could be better spent on habitat, he added.
Turns out the commission actually is sponsoring a race car – along with two races at Selinsgrove and Port Royal speedways in Snyder and Juniata counties, in September. The events, intended to promote hunting season and hunting license sales, are called “Race to Hunting Season.”

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Commissioner selection process altered slightly in Pennsylvania

The process for a citizen to be chosen to serve on the boards of the Pennsylvania Game and Fish & Boat commissions has been altered slightly.
A recent announcement made by Gov. Josh Shapiro’s administration indicated that the long-standing role of the Governor’s Advisory Council for Hunting, Fishing and Conservation to recommend the most qualified finalists for the governor to pick from to fill commissioner seats will be eliminated.

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Notes off a soiled cuff: Recapping a busy recent period in Pennsylvania’s outdoors

Just before this issue went to press, we learned that the Game Commission recently charged six southwestern Pennsylvania residents with hundreds of wildlife violations after they admitted to illegally shooting and killing between 100 and 200 deer in six months “just for fun.”

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Study helps pinpoint where to find destructive feral swine in Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Feral swine are considered one of the top invasive species of concern in North America because of the damage they do to agricultural and natural systems. To best manage them, resource management agencies need to know more precisely where and when to implement control methods.
A new study by a Penn State-led research team developed a method to help guide control efforts in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

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Early-nesting ducks fooled by climate, land-use change in Prairie Pothole Region

Each year approximately 10 million waterfowl fly north to their breeding grounds in the Prairie Pothole Region of North America, but the landscape that greets them has changed. 
Weather patterns and agricultural practices have significantly transformed the pothole-dotted native grasslands that waterfowl have used for thousands of years.
These changes have resulted in some waterfowl proliferating while others decline.

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Notes off a soiled cuff: There’s a new sheriff in town as president of Pennsylvania Game Commission board

“There’ a new sheriff in town.” That’s the message Kristen Schnepp-Giger, president of the Game Commission board, conveyed at the agency’s recent meeting.
Under her leadership, not only did the commissioners accept the agency staff’s 16% increase in doe licenses for sale this fall, but she announced there would be no challenges to the allocations.

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‘Manureshed’ management in Susquehanna River basin key for water quality of Chesapeake Bay

A novel study by a Penn State-led research team suggests that “manureshed” management in the Susquehanna River basin could make a big difference in the water quality of the Chesapeake Bay.
The Susquehanna delivers half the fresh water in the Chesapeake Bay and about 40% of the nitrogen pollution, 20% of the phosphorus pollution and a heavy load of sediment pollution.

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