
Changes for deer season discussed
Don’t be surprised if Pennsylvania’s deer seasons change again, perhaps in time for next fall, and maybe, in even bigger ways, in the not too distant future.
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Don’t be surprised if Pennsylvania’s deer seasons change again, perhaps in time for next fall, and maybe, in even bigger ways, in the not too distant future.

Pennsylvania was the first state to pass Families Afield legislation, which included elimination of the minimum age for mentored youth hunters.

Pennsylvania Game Commission staff came as close to publicly criticizing a fellow state agency as might ever be seen Dec. 17

The potential impact of Pennsylvania’s first confirmed case of chronic wasting disease in a captive deer continues to grow. At this issue’s deadline, the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture had placed quarantines on 20 deer farms.
An antlerless deer known as Pink 23 that escaped from the Adams County enclosure where it lived with the 3.5-year-old doe that had Pennsylvania’s first confirmed case of chronic wasting disease remained in the wild

When it comes to black bears, Pennsylvania has the best of both worlds.

Pennsylvania may have its second case of chronic wasting disease.


On the heels of finding chronic wasting disease in a Pennsylvania deer, it’s time for the state’s game commissioners to consider a ban on deer feeding.
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