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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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.
Pennsylvania State Rep. David Maloney probes PGC attendance at NWTF event Read More »
The grants will help fund 19 projects across the state geared toward improving or creating boating access. Funds for this program are derived primarily from boat registration fees, state motorboat fuels tax, and restricted revenue accounts, if applicable.
Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission gives $2M in boating grants to improve access Read More »
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.
Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission changes training to keep officers Read More »
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.
No conservation plan means no tax break, Pennsylvania legislator says Read More »
A sunny, sweltering hot day isn’t trout fishing weather, in my opinion. Trout season is a cold weather sport, coinciding with the time of year when shoots of skunk cabbage protrude through the mud and the winter snow still clings to the ground.
Warmer now, early trout opener in Pennsylvania was right call Read More »
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.
Pennsylvania pheasant farms at risk during avian influenza outbreak Read More »
A bill that would grant authority to the Pennsylvania Game Commission to deny or revoke a hunting or furtaking license from anyone convicted of animal cruelty has resurfaced in the state House.
State Rep. Melissa Shusterman, D-Chester County, introduced House Bill 669, which has been referred to the Game and Fisheries Committee. In her co-sponsorship memo to legislators, Shusterman referred to the 2019 incident in Jefferson County where two Brookville-area teenagers filmed themselves torturing a wounded buck during the statewide firearms deer season.
Pennsylvania bill would deny hunting licenses to those convicted of animal cruelty Read More »
Bruce Trumbower gazes at the 50 acres of switchgrass planted on his farm and sees a wildlife oasis.
The Luzerne County farmer has been actively involved in balancing agriculture with wildlife habitat, and he hopes other farmers can see the benefit as well. But in order for farm fields to double as wildlife habitat, he said, there needs to be a financial outlet.
New switchgrass market may make more habitat for wildlife Read More »
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