Pennsylvania Mixed Bag: Huge buck is close to a record
Staff Report
April 25, 2023
A mix of outdoor news stories from across Pennsylvania published in the April 28, 2023 edition of Pennsylvania Outdoor News.
National News
Penn State NWTF club wins collegiate chapter awards
Noah Evans
April 25, 2023
The club received a first-place award for highest membership of all collegiate chapters, as well as second place for highest net earnings, which it collected during its annual spring fundraising banquet.
‘Manureshed’ management in Susquehanna River basin key for water quality of Chesapeake Bay
Jeff Mulhollem
April 25, 2023
A novel study by a Penn State-led research team suggests that “manureshed” management in the Susquehanna River basin could make a big difference in the water quality of the Chesapeake Bay.
The Susquehanna delivers
Pennsylvania pheasant farms at risk during avian influenza outbreak
Tom Venesky
April 24, 2023
The Pennsylvania Game Commission is aware of the risk that will arise once the first shipment of pheasant chicks arrives on the agency’s game farms in April.
As the threat of avian influenza
Hass family receives Minnesota Deer Hunters Association awards for generations of volunteering
Brian Mozey
April 23, 2023
The Minnesota Deer Hunters Association held its 36th annual state banquet in late February, and during this banquet, the group presented Forkhorn Achievement awards as well as MDHA Distinguished Service awards.
Little did John,
Michigan DNR budget laid out for Natural Resources Commission
Bill Parker
April 22, 2023
Restricted funds (license sales, park fees, etc.) account for $363.8 million (67%) of the DNR’s budget. Federal funding, including Pittman-Robertson and Dingell-Johnson money, accounts for $100.4 million (19%), $67.9 million (13%) came from the state’s
Prescribed fire to be used in Pennsylvania’s Allegheny National Forest this spring
Staff Report
April 21, 2023
The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service plans to use prescribed fire as a forest management tool during April and May in the Allegheny National Forest. Exact dates are not set yet.
Operations are
Minnesota’s Fort Snelling State Park closed temporarily due to flooding
DNR Report
April 21, 2023
The Minnesota Department of Natural resources announced that Fort Snelling State Park will close to the public starting at 8 a.m. on Friday, April 21 due to rising waters on the Minnesota and Mississippi rivers.<br
Groups send letter to state senators opposing wolf hunt ban in Minnesota
Staff Report
April 20, 2023
Eleven big game and outdoors-focused organizations on Thursday sent a letter to Minnesota state senators opposing language that would ban wolf hunting in the state.
On Monday, Rep. Peter Fischer, DFL-Maplewood, offered an
