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Pennsylvania bills to address crop damage would also add a 10th seat to PGC board

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Several senators are working on legislation to further enhance hunting as a tool to address crop damage on farms in Pennsylvania. 
The legislation is currently being drafted but is expected to be introduced as a group of four bills early this year. In addition to crop damage, one of the bills will also create a 10th seat on the Pennsylvania Game Commission board to be filled by someone from the agriculture community. 

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Tom Venesky: Culling of barred owls in Northwest offers a predator lesson for Pennsylvania

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While the Pennsylvania Game Commission considers bringing a predator back onto the landscape, the federal government is set to embark on an ambitious plan to remove a predator in other states.
There are differences in the two situations, but some concerns are similar.

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Higher yielding varieties of switchgrass could mean more wildlife habitat

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This summer, the Association of Warm Season Grass Producers planted three test plots with six varieties of switchgrass and big bluestem. The plots were planted on the Bruce Trumbower farm in Hunlock Creek, and they will be monitored for disease resistance, establishment and yield.

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Pennsylvania’s Hunters Sharing the Harvest sees positive start for venison donations this year

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Early reports from the last few days of the rifle deer season in Pennsylvania indicate venison donations to Hunters Sharing the Harvest are ahead of last year’s record pace.
According to Executive Director Randy Ferguson, as of Dec. 8 – the second to last day of the rifle season – donations were up about 34% from the same time last year.

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Pennsylvania’s bear harvest declines in 2023

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For the first time since 2007 Pennsylvania’s bear harvest is on track to be below 3,000. 
But according to a Pennsylvania Game Commission biologist, that doesn’t necessarily mean the state’s bear population has dropped. As of Dec. 10, the unofficial 2023 bear harvest stood at 2,898 for the early, statewide and extended seasons combined. Last year, hunters harvested 3,170 bears overall, down from 3,621 in 2021 and far below the record of 4,653 which occurred in 2019.

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Tom Venesky: Trappers need to treat animals with respect

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My first trapping teachers were people I never met, but whose words taught me so much.
In his classic book “Gone for the Day,” Ned Smith’s passages about his experiences trapping red foxes sparked my interest. Later, when I picked up Stanley Hawbaker’s “Trapping North American Furbearers,” I studied and memorized the details of every set description and illustration, looking forward to the day when I could apply them on a line of my own.

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Fishing mortality continues to haunt East’s striped bass

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Despite increased catches of Atlantic striped bass in 2022, fishing mortality threatens to derail efforts to increase the species’ spawning stock by 2029.
After Atlantic striped bass were declared overfished by the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission in 2019, several measures were enacted to limit mortality on the commercial and recreational fishing segments. However, a significant increase in the recreational harvest in 2022 means more changes could be on the horizon.

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Drone deer recovery: Should it be legal in Pennsylvania, more states?

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With a few exceptions, the Pennsylvania Game Commission prohibits the use of electronic devices for hunting. When it comes to drones, however, Mike Yoder believes there’s a difference between hunting and tracking fatally wounded deer. 
Yoder founded Drone Deer Recovery in the fall of 2022. Based in Ohio, Yoder and other trained pilots use thermal drones to locate downed deer, essentially doing the searching for the hunter, or picking up where the track was lost.

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The story of one Pennsylvania hunter demonstrates how tick bites can be a ticking time bomb

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Tony Hudak has traveled across North America hunting wild turkeys, and it’s rare that a gobbler sends him home with an unfilled tag.
The resident of Luzerne County, Pa., is one of a handful of hunters to achieve the National Wild Turkey Federation’s Super Slam – harvesting a gobbler in all 49 states where wild turkeys exist (Alaska the lone exception).
Now, Hudak is traveling the country again, working on his second Super Slam. The quest was nearly derailed, however, not by an elusive bird but a tiny bug.

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