A data center in northeastern Pennsylvania is seeking approval from the state to discharge used cooling water into the Susquehanna River.
The facility is owned by Amazon Data Services Inc., located in Luzerne County near the Susquehanna Steam Electric Station nuclear power plant.
The idea to raise the minimum size limit for trout in Pennsylvania from 7 inches to 9 inches is a significant change, and a good one.
The proposal was discussed at the Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission’s Fisheries Committee meeting on Dec. 23, 2025, and the impetus for the change is to protect wild brook trout. The idea makes so much sense that it leaves you wondering why didn’t anyone think of this sooner.
Tom Venesky: Minimum size change for trout makes sense in Pennsylvania Read More »
Two legislators are planning to introduce legislation to change the way executive directors of the Pennsylvania Game Commission and Fish & Boat Commission are selected.
State Rep. Jim Haddock, D-Lackawanna and Luzerne counties, and Rep. Frank Burns, D-Cambria County, have circulated a memo outlining plans for legislation that would require both agencies to conduct a publicly advertised, national search to fill future executive director vacancies.
Donations of venison to the Hunters Sharing the Harvest program might set a record for the second consecutive year, and the organization is asking for help to sustain the milestone pace.
During the 2024-25 hunting season, hunters donated a record 283,789 pounds of venison from 7,855 deer. It equated to 1.1 million servings of ground venison, much of which is distributed through food pantries and other organizations that help those in need.
Pennsylvania’s Hunters Sharing the Harvest, deer processors need help Read More »
Pennsylvania is a top turkey hunting state, but we’re not alone.
And one of the other hotspot states is changing things up in ways that might benefit the turkey population, and hunters, in Pennsylvania. Missouri has long been a turkey hunting magnet, but recent concerns about hunting pressure and crowding – particularly on public land – has led the state Department of Conservation to make a significant change targeting nonresident hunters.
Hunters can expect additional Sundays to be added to the 2026-27 seasons when the Pennsylvania Game Commission board meets on Jan. 30-31.
Currently, an additional 13 Sundays were added via an executive order last fall. Those Sundays concluded on Dec. 7 during the firearms deer season, but there appears to be support to carry it further in 2026.
More Sunday hunting may be in store in Pennsylvania Read More »
Avian influenza appears to be impacting snow geese along the eastern edge of Pennsylvania.
In December, several hundred snow geese were discovered at a Northampton County quarry, and an avian influenza outbreak is the likely cause. Since the initial finding, the Pennsylvania Game Commission now estimates that 900 snow geese died at the site.
Bird flu killing flocks of snow geese again in Pennsylvania Read More »
Deer drives always made me uneasy. I’ve participated in plenty, and admit it can be a fun way to hunt. But no matter how fast-paced the action was, the risk was always inherent. And obvious.
When you have a group of “drivers” moving through the woods directly toward a line of “standers,” with deer in between, it goes against every standard of safety.
Tom Venesky: Should laws be changed in regard to deer drives in Pennsylvania? Read More »
For something that is the norm across the country, the idea of merging Pennsylvania’s game and fish agencies wouldn’t seem like a hard thing to do.
But Pennsylvania isn’t like other states. The Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission has been around since 1866, and the Game Commission originated in 1895.
Tom Venesky: Game, Fish merger for Pennsylvania agencies best done sooner than later Read More »
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