At least 31 organized predator hunts are scheduled across Pennsylvania, and hunters are eager to participate. Hunts begin this month and continue through late March.
Fifteen hunts are planned to start in January – beginning with the Woodcock Valley Sportsmen Predator Hunt, Jan. 15-18, centered in Huntingdon County.
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Nate Miller, a 38-year-old construction worker from Beaver County, had the hunt of a lifetime on the opening day of Pennsylvania’s regular firearms bear season.
Miller’s friend, Dan Druschel, provided Miller with the GPS coordinates for a spot in Butler County where he had seen lots of bear sign earlier in the year. Those coordinates led him to Moraine State Park in northwestern Butler County.
The story of the heaviest bear taken during Pennsylvania’s 2025 season Read More »
Colorful, bold, and sassy are good descriptors for the evening grosbeak that could be said to resemble a huge goldfinch.
In the east, the bird breeds in Canada and often visits Pennsylvania and other northeastern states during the winter. As beautiful as they are, the evening grosbeak is a species in trouble.
What’s leading to the huge decline of grosbeaks? Research aims to find out Read More »
Somewhere between mosses and ferns lies an interesting group of plants known as clubmosses. They are evergreen, so during the winter you might see them popping up above the snow.
If you spend much time in the woods hunting, fishing or just hiking, you have probably passed them many times, but did you really notice them? Growing only a few inches tall, casual observers often mistake them for mosses or young pine or cedar trees.
Although some big bears were taken in the 2025 hunting seasons in Pennsylvania, none showed up at the check station in Quehanna.
On the evening of the opening day of the statewide firearms season, Nov. 22, hunters with bears lined up at the Quehanna check station, however, almost every bear weighed less than 200 pounds.
Heavy bears highlight Pennsylvania’s 2025 hunting season Read More »
Although generally happy with the 2025 regular season’s results, Pennsylvania Game Commission elk biologist Jeremy Banfield commented on a few exceptions.
“Elk Hunt Zone 2’s cow harvest is disappointing that most of the elk in that area were locked up in zone 7 (ironically on the visitor center grounds) and I don’t think they ever left the entire week,” Banfield said.
Pennsylvania Game Commission mostly pleased by results of recent elk season Read More »
Beautiful weather greeted Pennsylvania elk hunters for the general season – Nov. 3-8. Aside from a little rain late in the week and a wind event, it was perfect hunting weather.
Out of 68 licenses awarded by the Pennsylvania Game Commission for the general season, 51 hunters harvested elk during the six-day season – 26 bulls and 25 cows. They proved once again that Pennsylvania elk hunting is not easy.
Hunters take 51 elk during Pennsylvania’s general season Read More »
The three-year battle to protect an important wildlife area in Huntingdon County, Pa., has come to an end. Earthmoving for a convenience store/truck stop began in mid-July and continued into November, with the construction of a huge retaining wall on the lower end of the adjoining property.
In April, Rutters closed the deal on the farm fields near the intersection of Routes 22 and 26 just west of Huntingdon – purchasing the property for $427,500. This was the final step before beginning construction of a convenience store/truck stop that happens to be adjacent and immediately up-slope from the Old Crow Wetlands.
Battle to save Huntingdon County’s Old Crow Wetland in Pennsylvania is over Read More »
Archers were met with mostly hot and dry weather for the 14-day elk season in Pennsylvania, which for the first time included two Sundays. Temperatures topped out in the high 70s to mid 80s almost every day.
“Elk were primarily found along the rivers and creeks in the valley bottoms. That’s not shocking – it was the only water available.”
Pennsylvania archers take 21 elk during recent season Read More »
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