Not long before this issue’s deadline, a South Philadelphia angler hooked an enormous fish in the Schuylkill River a few blocks from his home.
The monster engulfed a lure on the first cast of the day. After an epic struggle, he landed a flathead catfish that weighed more than 72 pounds on his scale – well over the 66-pound state record.
As we approach the June 14 opening of traditional bass season in Pennsylvania, it’s hard to believe that it has been 25 long years since the state made a major change to its fishing regulations.
In 2000, the Fish & Boat Commission changed bass season dates. Prior to that, fishing for bass was prohibited until mid-June. The change resulted in a softer start to the bass season, with anglers able to fish for bass from mid-April to mid-June but requiring them to release fish they catch.
Notes off a soiled cuff: Stiffer penalties coming for trail cam vandals in Pennsylvania? Read More »
It’s strange how some memories seem to be burned into your brain, even really old ones you would never expect …
More than four decades later, I still clearly remember being in a stand of oaks on a mountainside above Tyrone, during a sunny afternoon at about this time of year. I was a very inexperienced reporter for the Altoona Mirror in 1980, sent out to cover the “new” scourge of gypsy moth caterpillars that was about to defoliate a wide swath of forest in Blair County, Pa.
A debate continues among scientists over whether tree composition in forests in eastern North American historically have been influenced more by climate or by cultural burning, which is the intentional and controlled use of fire by Indigenous people to manage their environment.
Now, a new study of southern New England forests by a team including a researcher from Penn State lends credence to the cultural burning hypothesis, suggesting that fire-tolerant vegetation – oak, hickory and pine – were significantly more abundant near Indigenous settlements over the last 5,000 years.
Study shows Native Americans’ forest burning increased fire-tolerant trees such as oaks Read More »
Seeing the “huge juxtaposition” between streams flowing near her childhood home in Lancaster County, Pa., impaired by pollution from intensive agriculture and the seemingly pristine creeks tumbling down the forested mountains around her family’s cabin in Mifflin County led Bridget Reheard to study how contaminants in waters affect aquatic organisms and aspirations for a career working to protect natural resources.
Penn State undergrad sees her research as key to moving on Read More »
As you might imagine, I have heard a lot of hunting stories – this one tops them all:
Not long before dusk last Oct. 9, then 87-year-old Frank Jubara Sr. – a lifelong hunter and angler – shot a big doe with his crossbow on Lilly Mountain in Cambria County, Pa., not far from his home in Portage.
Notes off a soiled cuff: A hunting story from Pennsylvania that tops them all Read More »
Despite a long history of traditional medicinal use in the United States, the collection, consumption and efficacy of the peculiar forest plant aptly named ghost pipe remains a mystery.
Now, with social media and the internet driving a resurgence in the harvest and economic trade of the parasitic species – which appears strangely white because it is devoid of chlorophyl – a research team from Penn State has taken the first step toward documenting its new status.
Penn State study shows strange, pale ghost pipe plant is in demand Read More »
Living part time in Pennsylvania’s elk range for awhile, not long ago, I became enamored and fascinated by the majestic animals. With so much good habitat for them to spread out in the Northern Tier, I’ve been surprised and disappointed that the herd has not grown much or expanded its territory very far.
Looks like the price of fishing licenses won’t increase next year. During his presentation of the Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission’s annual report to the Senate Game and Fisheries Committee, Tim Schaeffer, executive director, said even though the agency has the authority to raise fees, license prices won’t rise.
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