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Business as usual? All Pennsylvania Fish & Boat commissioners reappointed

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A new process for selecting commissioners for both the Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission and the Game Commission was instituted by Gov. Josh Shapiro’s administration earlier this year.
The new process was supposed to put new applicants for open seats an equal footing to those seeking reappointment. Is the new process doing what was promised? After all of the applications, interviews and feedback, all five of the sitting commissioners were reappointed for another four-year term.

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Bill proposed in Pennsylvania allowing license holders to select fish, game commissioners politics in its truest form

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State representative Dave Maloney introduced legislation that would allow agency license buyers to nominate and vote for commissioner candidates.
At present, commissioners for both the Pennsylvania Game Commission and the Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission are recommended by the governor and confirmed by the Senate. Prior to being nominated, they are interviewed and recommended to the governor by the Governor’s Advisory Council for Hunting, Fishing and Conservation.

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Pennsylvania elk hunters enjoy big success

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Pennsylvania general-season elk hunters endured rain on day one and some were treated to snow on the morning of the third day of the state’s limited-permit elk hunt.
Pennsylvania Game Commission elk biologist Jeremy Banfield described the remainder of the week as “great hunting weather, with temperatures that make meat care and preparation easy.” The good weather allowed hunters to build on their opening day success.

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Pennsylvania’s abundance of natural foods is great for wildlife, but it can make hunting difficult

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I live in the middle of the forest in Centre County, Pa. In addition to being a hunter and an angler, I also love to feed and watch birds. I have been feeding forest birds at my woodland home since 1979. And as anyone who feeds birds knows, I am, whether I like it or not, also feeding squirrels.
My forest home gives me an up-close perspective on the natural cycles and the local abundance or absence of important wildlife foods, such as acorns, hickory nuts, and hawthorn apples.

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Mallard numbers declining in Pennsylvania, across their range

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If it quacks like a duck …well, you know the saying.
Actually, if it “quacks” it is almost certainly not just any duck, but a mallard duck or a white domestic duck (which was derived from mallards). Mallards, an economically important hunted waterfowl, are the most numerous and best-known ducks in the United States. Mallard numbers were stable or increasing throughout most of their North American range for many years, but more recently there has been a decline.

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Unified Sportsmen of Pennsylvania respond to accusations, tell what happened to funds intended for CWD research

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It has been four-and-a-half years since the Unified Sportsmen of Pennsylvania held a press conference in Harrisburg announcing that the group was backing chronic wasting disease research done by Dr. Frank Bastian.
Bastian – at the time a researcher affiliated with Louisiana State University – claimed that CWD is caused by a bacterium, rather than a prion, contrary to what is believed by the vast majority of the scientific community.

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Wild flamingos visit Pennsylvania for the first time as birders flock to Franklin County

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Birders from all over the eastern United States have been flocking to see the first-ever-reported wild flamingos in Pennsylvania. Avid birder John Carter, of Chambersburg, was the first person to spot them Sept. 7.
“I am beyond words right now, on my lunch break I decided to check some local ponds for shorebirds, and wouldn’t you know I would find the first reported American Flamingos in the state of Pennsylvania,” he wrote on his Facebook page. Carter also reported his find on Cornell University’s eBird. The popular birding website collects and keeps track of bird sightings from all over the world. A representative from Cornell Lab of Ornithology checked out the flamingos a few days later.

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Pennsylvania club completes another Tubmill Creek tributary restoration effort

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The Tubmill Trout Club Unlimited recently completed yet another habitat project in its continuing efforts to restore Pennsylvania’s Tubmill Creek and its tributaries.
This year’s undertaking improved 2,500 feet of Hendricks Creek on the Peters property, just downstream from last year’s improvements.
“This is our 16th continuous year of restoring sections of stream in the Tubmill Creek watershed,” club President Lin Gamble said. “It was one of our most ambitious projects to date.”

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