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Sportsmen Since 1968

Mary Hosmer

Johnsonburg’s Rolfe Beagle Club in Pennsylvania honors ‘Big Jim’ Pennington Sr.

“Big Jim” Pennington Sr., of Johnsonburg, Pa., was a mainstay of the Rolfe Beagle Club in northern Elk County for almost 60 years of the club’s 78 years of existence. 
He was always the marshal at the club’s AKC Licensed Beagle Trials for decades. Dog handlers learned early on to listen when “Big Jim” gave instructions.

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Volunteers with Ruffed Grouse Society help complete spring planting for wildlife in Pennsylvania

The rain held off and the weather was cool and cloudy – perfect for finishing up a massive planting project on Collins Pine Company lands with Seneca Resources on the border of Elk and McKean counties.
Seven volunteers with the Ruffed Grouse Society showed up on Sunday, May 5, despite the threat of rain, to plant shrubs for wildlife on a former water impoundment at a Marcellus gas well site. Unique to this particular planting day is that Bryan Parana, known as the “chestnut man,” brought 15 back-cross American chestnut seedlings to plant at the site.

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