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Delaware River Basin Commission gets an infusion to help meet clean water goals

Featured, National News, Nature Page & Night Sky, News, Pennsylvania /

The Delaware River Basin Commission received $715,000 in federal funding that will help the organization meet its clean water goals and manage for floods and droughts.
The money is from an omnibus funding bill that Congress passed in December 2022 to keep the federal government funded through 2023. Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman, D-N.J., secured the funds for the commission, which relies on grants and special project funding to fill budget gaps.

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Ducks not showing as steep of declines in eastern U.S. than across the Prairie Pothole Region

Featured, Hunting, National Hunting, News, Pennsylvania /

You may have heard recently about a significant downturn in the North American waterfowl population, but breeding duck numbers in the eastern U.S. and Canada didn’t experience declines as steep as the national level.
That’s the gist of a report from the Pennsylvania Game Commission, which has seen only three of the seven species surveyed in the east showing slight decreases.  According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service report on 2023 waterfowl populations, seven of the nine species surveyed showed declines, and some of them rather sharp. 

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PA’s Deer Management Assistance Program permits selling out on game lands

Featured, Hunting, National Hunting, News, Pennsylvania /

The Pennsylvania Game Commission implemented the Deer Management Assistance Program on select state game lands for the first time this year, and it didn’t take hunters long to jump at the opportunity. 
Permits for DMAP went on sale with the third round of antlerless deer licenses on Aug. 14, and by Aug. 17 more than half of the DMAP permits allotted for game lands were sold. The agency issued 4,679 DMAP permits for units within 24 game lands, and in the first four days more than 2,400 were sold.

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Pennsylvania’s Lake Wallenpaupack yields 40-inch inland striped bass

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

Darren Maria admits he’s not a trophy angler, but rather more of a catch-and-fillet type of fisherman.
But a fish he hooked into last October at Pennsylvania’s Lake Wallenpaupack changed his angling approach. In this case, the big fish turned Maria into a catch-and-mount angler. The Factoryville, Pa., resident landed a 42-inch, 33.85-pound inland striped bass on Oct. 26, 2022, good enough to earn a Trophy Fish Angler Award from the Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission.

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Drones being used to recover wounded deer: Is that a good thing?

Featured, Hunting, National Hunting, Opinion, Pennsylvania /

When legislation was passed in 2018 to allow the use of blood-tracking dogs to recover big game, the move made sense.
Despite the fact that it took 10 years for the legislation to finally pass, when it comes to recovering game, all options should be on the table. Or should they?
Is it possible that some game-recovery tactics go too far and blur the line between locating a wounded animal and simply searching for a nice buck to shoot?

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Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission releasing channel catfish across state, blues in Ohio River

Featured, Fishing, National Fishing, National News, News, Pennsylvania /

A few readers recently contacted Pennsylvania Outdoors News concerned that the Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission is stocking invasive flathead catfish into the Susquehanna River.
Mike Parker, communications director for the agency, dispelled the notion.
“We do not raise or stock flathead catfish. We never have,” he said.
But that doesn’t mean the agency hasn’t been busy stocking catfish – just not flatheads.

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Hunter education, archery in schools may be safe in Pennsylvania despite threat to federal funding

Featured, Hunting, National News, News, Pennsylvania /

A recent move by the Biden administration to block funding for hunter education and archery programs held in schools may not impact the programs in Pennsylvania, but officials are watching the situation closely. 
The federal funding in question is earmarked under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 for schools with hunting and archery programs. According to news reports, the Department of Education determined that, under the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act passed last year, school hunting and archery classes are precluded from receiving the federal funding.

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Online license sales fee covers cost of mailing Pennsylvania’s hunting digest

Hunting, National Hunting, National News, News, Pennsylvania /

The new electronic licensing system implemented by the Pennsylvania Game Commission this summer generated a lot of talk among hunters, and it also raised a few questions. 
Earlier this year, the commission board approved a change to the way licenses are sold – allowing hunters to purchase them from issuing agents or online. For those hunters who purchased their hunting licenses online, they were assessed a $4.40 fee and there were questions about the origination of the charge.

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