ECOs, forest rangers approve lengthy pact
Environmental conservation officers and forest rangers have overwhelmingly approved a contract settlement that covers 10 years and includes retroactive salary hikes as well as some health care concessions.
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Environmental conservation officers and forest rangers have overwhelmingly approved a contract settlement that covers 10 years and includes retroactive salary hikes as well as some health care concessions.

With development of Pennsylvania’s Marcellus natural-gas reserves proceeding at a breakneck pace, Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission waterways conservation officers are stuggling to keep up, attempting to protect the state’s precious wild trout waters.

Just weeks after shifting the salaries of 20 environmental conservation officers onto the state’s Conservation Fund, budget officials have moved 65 more ECOs over to the same account – one that’s composed primarily of sporting

Lansing – Gov. Rick Snyder last month appointed two new members to the state Natural Resources Commission, which provides oversight to the DNR and makes resource management decisions. The two new appointees, Rex Schlaybaugh Jr.,

Twenty years ago, locals scoffed at any mention of bringing the Stonycreek River in Somerset and Cambria counties back to life.

Madison – The Wisconsin hunter safety program originated in 1967 in Dunn County. In 1985 the course was required for hunters born after 1972. Last year, 25,019 people completed a hunter safety class, and that

A coalition of groups on Jan. 10 delivered more than 12,000 comments expressing health and environmental concerns about a drilling process used to reach natural gas that’s being considered in New York. It was a

National Rifle Association president and CEO Wayne LaPierre will return to Albany in March as the featured speaker at an annual rally of the state’s hunters, anglers and trappers.

A scientist studying the mysterious fungal ailment killing millions of bats across Pennsylvania, New York and other states said the experiences of European bats that have been infected with a similar fungus that they’ve survived
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