Pennsylvania

Harrisburg – The Pennsylvania Game Commission is – according to agency insiders – either going broke or at least struggling mightily to make ends meet. Some sportsmen say it’s time to remedy that by increasing

Harrisburg – One of Appalachia’s largest landowners, Pennsylvania’s state forestry agency, wants in on any windfall from drilling a potentially lucrative natural gas formation. More than 74,000 acres, or more than 115 square miles, in

Harrisburg – The antler- and skull-scoring sessions held earlier this summer by the Pennsylvania Game Commission revealed that some very nice deer, elk and bears have been taken in recent years. There seem to be

Harrisburg – Although Pennsylvania anglers say they care about wild trout, a majority supports stocking even streams with high densities of wild fish. That finding is part of the Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission’s first

Harrisburg – Although Pennsylvania Fish & Boat commissioners at their summer meeting here July 14-15 did not discuss opening trout season year-round or trout-stocking changes resulting from their controversial new resource-first policy – as many

Harrisburg – A new “resource-first” policy adopted by Pennsylvania Fish & Boat commissioners this summer so troubled a state lawmaker that he introduced a bill in early July to thwart it. Worried that the policy

Harrisburg – When word of Sen. Gibson Armstrong’s amendment that would strip wildlife conservation officers of their powers got out, reaction was swift. The Pennsylvania Federation of Sportsmen’s Clubs asked its members to contact their

Deborah Weisberg Southwest Correspondent Claysburg, Pa. – With one eyewitness bound for court in last month’s police shooting of a black bear, the Pennsylvania Game Commission blames bystanders and local officers for the killing that