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Pennsylvania Game Commission turns its back on social aspect of science

Featured, Hunting, National Hunting, Opinion, Pennsylvania /

I always found it interesting during Pennsylvania Game Commission meetings when commissioners weighed in before approving antlerless allocations for their districts.
Agency staff would recommend a number, and commissioners could alter it based on a number of factors unique to their district. Most of the time, if a commissioner did change the allocation for their district, the move reflected what they were hearing from hunters.

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Veteran Pennsylvania fur buyer was a legend and a mentor

Featured, Features, Hunting, National Hunting, Pennsylvania /

On a wall inside an old shed sit a dozen small jars.
Some are small, 1-ounce glass bottles, and others are plastic, 16-ounce jars that held bait. They are all empty now, but at one time they contained the scent of success for my trapline. Mink, fox, muskrat – you name it – I had a scent that was bound to work.

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Nominations needed for Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission board

News, Pennsylvania /

The Fish & Boat Commission’s board’s next quarterly meeting is scheduled for July 24-25, and five commissioner seats will be serving under six-month extensions at that time following term expirations in June.
The commissioners with expiring terms include Daniel Pastore, Eric Hussar, William Gibney, Richard Kauffman and Charlie Charlesworth.

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Pennsylvania State Rep. David Maloney probes PGC attendance at NWTF event

Featured, National News, News, Pennsylvania /

A state legislator is questioning the Pennsylvania Game Commission excursion to a national convention in Nashville during February.

State Rep. David Maloney, R-Berks, who is the Republican chairman of the House Game and Fisheries Committee, filed a Right to Know request seeking information from the Game Commission on costs and number of employees attending the National Wild Turkey Federation Convention and Sport Show.

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Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission changes training to keep officers

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

Attrition is expected with each class of cadets going through the Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission’s Waterways Conservation Officers training program. 
But in recent years, the number of cadets dropping out of the class was higher than the agency liked, and changes are being implemented to slow the trend.

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No conservation plan means no tax break, Pennsylvania legislator says

Featured, National News, News, Pennsylvania /

State Rep. Mike Sturla, D-Lancaster County, has introduced a bill requiring any landowner in the Clean and Green program to have a conservation plan in order to receive the tax break.
Clean and Green is a preferential tax-assessment program that bases property taxes on use values rather than fair market values. This ordinarily results in a tax savings for landowners, sometimes as much as 50% and is seen as a way to protect farmland and forests from development.

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Pennsylvania pheasant farms at risk during avian influenza outbreak

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

The Pennsylvania Game Commission is aware of the risk that will arise once the first shipment of pheasant chicks arrives on the agency’s game farms in April. 
As the threat of avian influenza persists, there is little the agency can do to prevent one of the main vectors of the virus – wild birds – from flying over or even into the pens. But they are taking other measures to try to guard against an outbreak.

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