Tom Venesky

Penn State is bringing together its agriculture, biology and forestry experts for a new webinar series designed to help hunters plant better food plots and, ultimately, manage a healthy deer herd.
Dubbed “Antlers and Academics,” the bi-monthly webinar series will focus on an array of seasonal topics. The focus is food plots, but the webinars deal with far more than just putting seeds in the dirt.

Pennsylvania hunters weren’t in a hurry to buy their antlerless licenses during the first round this year, and they apparently weren’t in a rush to get their hunting licenses as well.
With a record 1.3 million antlerless licenses allocated this year, the Pennsylvania Game Commission guaranteed resident hunters a doe tag in the wildlife management unit of their choice for the first round. By the time the first round ended on July 14, not one unit had sold out and most had plenty of tags remaining.

Chronic wasting disease has surfaced in another area of northeast Pennsylvania, months after the first confirmation of the disease in the region.
The most recent case – a red deer from a captive deer farm in Wayne County – was confirmed by a U.S. Department of Agriculture lab on March 28 after it was submitted for testing on Jan. 20. According to the state Department of Agriculture, the deer was moved to the Wayne County facility from Huntingdon County on Oct. 25, 2021.