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PA: Steve Mohr busted by PGC

Lancaster, Pa. – Former Pennsylvania Game commissioner, and current president of Unified Sportsmen of Pennsylvania, Steve Mohr admitted in July to illegally buying six puppies that were determined to be part wolf. Mohr, 61, of

PA: Complaints preceded boat fatality on Youghiogheny

Confluence, Pa. – For days leading up to the Fourth of July weekend, a bright yellow racing boat evoked awe as well as ire on the Youghiogheny River Reservoir that straddles Pennsylvania and Maryland. The

PA: PF&BC to allow gas drilling under its lakes

Harrisburg – Soon, Pennsylvania Fish & Boat commissioners will be asked to approve plans to allow drillers to mine for Marcellus gas under agency property. The commission has been negotiating with drillers to lease the

PA: Agency involved in odd monkey business

Pittsburgh – A suburban Pittsburgh man has vowed to wage a legal battle to get his pet monkey returned from the Pennsylvania Game Commission. Although a municipal judge recently upheld the commission’s confiscation of the

PA: PGC backs Sunday hunt in resolution

Harrisburg – The Pennsylvania Game Commission has, for the first time ever, come out in support of expanded Sunday hunting. But it was not a decision made without controversy. The idea passed by the narrowest

PA: Expert: Rabies worse due to less trapping

University Park, Pa. – Shrinking furbearer habitat and a decline in trapping may be impacting efforts to stem the spread of rabies. The average number of wildlife rabies cases in Pennsylvania spiraled in the 1980s

PA: Agency: Susquehanna flatheads here to stay

Lancaster, Pa. – The Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission has resigned itself to the fact that flathead catfish are now established in the Susquehanna River. “We have a large population of flatheads on the lower

PA: No more attacks by rabid Philly beavers

Philadelphia – It appears that the series of beaver attacks here, labeled as bizarre by a Pennsylvania Game Commission spokesman, may be over. By this issue’s deadline there had been no more incidents with beavers

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