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Tyler Frantz: Bringing home a new bird dog an adventure in the making

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

Losing my first bird dog of 13 years was a long, slow burn of hurt. It took me two years to get over it. But where one chapter ends, a new one must begin, so after sitting out two full small-game seasons without a dog, it was finally time to do some page turning.
This past Christmas, I found myself longing for a new four-legged hunting buddy, which prompted a spontaneous online breeder search for springer spaniel pups once my kids finished unwrapping presents.

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Can lab genetics save American chestnut trees?

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

Prior to the 1900s, the American chestnut was widely considered the most valuable tree on the Pennsylvania landscape. Naturally rot-resistant, it was used to build barns, homes and expand the railway system.
Its nutritious mast fed animals and humans alike, and it was lauded as a keystone species across much of the Appalachian Mountain range. But when Chinese chestnuts were imported in the late 1800s, they brought with them a fungal pathogen that the American variety simply couldn’t survive.

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Fungi a focal point at Pennsylvania’s Ned Smith Center

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

Most everyone would recognize the tandem terms “flora and fauna” when it comes to describing living creatures – namely plants and animals – in forested areas. But there’s another alliterative term representing a third important kingdom of nature’s organisms that can’t be overlooked in the same discussion – fungi.

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Tyler Frantz: Size matters for Pennsylvania’s wild trout

Featured, Fishing, National Fishing, Opinion, Pennsylvania /

Sneaking along the shadows of towering hemlocks with a 3-weight fly-rod in hand, the cool mist of a favorite wild trout stream cuts the heat of a sultry summer day.
Dappled sunlight dances through swaying tree branches onto moss covered rocks. Mountain birdsong harmonizes with the therapeutic murmur of trickling water. The entire scene is the definition of pristine serenity.

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Tyler Frantz: Some of the most frigid hunts are memories frozen in time

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

Drafting this column in early February, there is no way of accurately predicting the weather when this issue of Pennsylvania Outdoor News goes to press, but as I gaze out the window of my home office on this quiet Friday evening, the snow is still falling and it’s cold as a “you know what.”
Our dear pal Phil saw his shadow again, and all the weather reports seem to validate his prognostication with extreme cold warnings, -20 wind chills, and dangerous wind advisories over the next 24 hours.

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Tyler Frantz: Snow day a welcomed bonus in deer season

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

School teachers who love to hunt receive the bulk of their vacation days during the wrong time of year. Sure, summers are nice for travel and recalibration, but they pale in comparison to spending time in a deer stand come November and December.
As an elementary STEM teacher by trade, I absolutely love my profession and the difference I get to make in young lives – but the limit of three personal days per school year can seem a bit skimpy when prime hunting opportunities compete with classroom duties.

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Tyler Frantz: Pennsylvania Outdoor News — good reading, good wrapping paper

Featured, Features, Fishing, Hunting, Pennsylvania /

The holiday season is well underway as this print issue of Pennsylvania Outdoor News appears in mailboxes and on newsstands.
Dedicated subscribers since this publication’s launch more than two decades ago, I can’t express exactly how many presents enveloped by past issues of Outdoor News have graced the floor space beneath our Frantz family Christmas trees through the years, but the number is more than a few. While my mom diligently gift wraps each of her four children’s presents in matching and personalized holiday paper, my father is a notorious newspaper wrapper.

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Tyler Frantz: Bear hunting is prized, precious in Pennsylvania

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

Sneaking quietly along the ridge in the inky-black stillness of predawn, a fresh coating of snow revealed where bears had clearly overturned leaves while rooting for acorns.
Multiple sets of tracks added confidence that we had chosen the right location for opening morning. We dropped in elevation to the next bench, half sliding on our backsides down the steep, laurel-choked slope.

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Tyler Frantz: May is a time for new beginnings in Pennsylvania

Blogs, Nature Page & Night Sky, Opinion, Pennsylvania /

Pulling out of my driveway on a morning trek to work recently, dozens of freshly dropped maple samaras peeled from the windshield and roof rack like molting bird feathers wafting away in the breeze.
With a swipe of the wiper blades, the last of the winged seed pods departed the vehicle, and I smiled at the recognition of Mother Nature’s attempt at seasonal renewal. In fact, multiple instances have sprung up lately where the promise of a new generation has been apparent or pending.

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