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Tyler Frantz: Trout fishing marks spring’s arrival in Pennsylvania

Featured, Features, Fishing, National Fishing, Pennsylvania /

The signs of spring are clear and obvious. Flowers have popped, trees are leafing out, and my woodshed is nearly empty. After what felt like a never-ending winter, my ears are now greeted by the welcomed sound of spring peepers on the farm pond, accompanied by the racket of nesting waterfowl and sky-dancing woodcocks at dusk. It’s truly a beautiful thing.

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Tyler Frantz: Pennsylvania’s Lebanon Valley College conducting hunter health study

Featured, Home Page News, Hunting, National Hunting, Pennsylvania /

As a 41-year-old in relatively good health – and someone who still plays competitive soccer with men 20 years younger – I shouldn’t get gassed climbing a mountain.
However, I do recall sucking wind while hiking out of a deep hollow toting a heavy pack during bear season this past fall, as well as how my heart pounded upon dragging multiple deer from the woods.

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Tyler Frantz: There’s determination, dignity that still shine through in a dog’s last hunt

Featured, Features, Home Page News, Hunting, National Hunting, Pennsylvania /

Regardless of how much we wish to slow down time, some things inevitably fade like dwindling daylight. Of course, we know the sun will predictably set whenever its time is due – even when we yearn to delay its departure.
Fifteen years ago this month, I brought home a wiggling, charismatic puppy named Cali. She changed our lives for the better, but as all longtime dog owners understand, we were ill-prepared to say goodbye when her number was called.

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Tyler Frantz: Don’t waste a moment of glorious fall season

Featured, Fishing, Hunting, National Fishing, National Hunting, Pennsylvania /

Pumpkin spice, flannels and football aren’t the only harbingers of fall’s arrival. The autumnal equinox officially graced the northern hemisphere on Sept. 22, marking the gradual shift toward shorter days and longer nights. With that comes cooler weather, vibrant foliage and prime outdoor opportunities.

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As deer season changes, it’s time to make rut adjustments

Featured, Features, Home Page News, Hunting, National Hunting, Pennsylvania /

It’s easy to notice when autumn tightens its grip on the landscape. Leaves turn and tumble downward. Days are shorter. Nights are colder. Obvious change is on the horizon for whitetails too, as a decrease in photoperiod daylight sparks a primal urge to mate, kicking the rut into high gear.
Several factors come into play when trying to pinpoint the heart of the rut, but it generally takes place in early to mid-November, with a seeking phase beginning the last full week in October.

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Pennsylvania’s mentored youth trout day keeps traditions alive

Blogs, Featured, Fishing, National Fishing, Opinion, Pennsylvania /

Every mentored youth trout fishing day I can remember in Pennsylvania started out the same way … cold.
Years ago, when I took my now 21-year-old nephew out for the very first mentored youth fishing day — I believe it was 2013 — my sister dropped him off at my house wearing a hooded sweatshirt. I recall thinking the kid might freeze to death and outfitted him with extra warm clothes from my closet. We took a canoe out on Lion’s Lake and had a great time together, but by the time he’d caught his limit, we were both shivering.

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Tyler Frantz: Competing in Scholastic 3-D Archery helps a young Pennsylvania archer grow

Blogs, Featured, Opinion, Pennsylvania /

When my son, Foster, and I walked into the archery room at Palmyra Sportsmen’s Association in Pennsylvania during a Field Day event a few months ago, we unofficially began the journey of competition archery. 
In speaking with some of the coaches, we learned more about the Scholastic 3-D Archery (S3DA) program, a fun series of organized youth archery competitions with a conservation focus gaining momentum across the nation, and it sounded right up my son’s alley.

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Coyote vs. bobcat encounter caught on trail camera in Pennsylvania

Blogs, Featured, Home Page News, Nature Page & Night Sky, Opinion, Pennsylvania /

Sometimes the things that play out in nature are truly remarkable. Every now and then, someone is lucky enough to capture these head-shaking encounters on camera.  
Adam Spittler, of Pine Grove, Pa., has been running trail cameras since 1999, when one had to order them directly from manufacturers. After 25 years of operating dozens of these devices, he captured one of the most unique series of images in his lifetime earlier this month. 

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Snow, cats, tire tracks: Unwelcome excitement on unmaintained mountain road at night

Blogs, Featured, Opinion, Pennsylvania /

If you’ve never experienced one of those white-knuckle, heart-pounding, “say a prayer” driving situations at any point in your life, consider yourself among the lucky ones. 
One such occasion, which potentially shaved a few years off my life for the stress of it all, occurred last winter right around the holidays. The week before Christmas, my son and I had traveled about 30 minutes from our home to set bobcat traps along a remote section of the Blue Mountain accessible only by a dirt road, which received no winter maintenance and offered limited cell phone reception.

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