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Trout troubles

PF&BC will be short fish in ’09 Harrisburg – Fish & Boat Commissioners knew the agency was going to be short some trout next year, thanks to construction-induced cutbacks in production at their Reynoldsdale hatchery.

PF&BC: Gas drillers should pay for water

Harrisburg – If no other government officials will step up to protect the quantity of the state’s precious water resources from deep-well natural-gas drilling, Pennsylvania Fish & Boat commissioners declared at their quarterly meeting here

Mysterious Lancaster attack yields no mountain lion yet

Christiana, Pa. – An Amish farmer said he shot one cougar and was attacked by another near his southern Lancaster County home Oct. 9. Pennsylvania Game Commission officials and state police used tracking dogs and

More mussel – French Creek clearly has it all

Venango Township, Pa. – “Noodling” for mussels with Darran Crabtree on French Creek means never seeing a stream bed the same way again. Though the state’s most ecologically diverse waterway offers some of the best

4 drawn for both elk, bobcat tags

Benezette, Pa. – Most sportsmen would agree that getting the chance to hunt elk in Pennsylvania would be pretty special. Having the chance to hunt or trap a bobcat would be pretty neat, too. But

Crossbows, archery flap coming to head

Harrisburg – This year’s archery season might be the last of its kind. Right now, hunters armed with vertical bows – be they compounds, recurves, or longbows – are roaming the woods, looking for white-tailed

Pa. Federation, NWF separate over issues

Somerset, Pa. – A conservation alliance that dates to the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration has come to an ugly end. The National Wildlife Federation has dumped the Pennsylvania Federation of Sportsmen’s Clubs as its state

PGC finally to offer hunting land maps

Harrisburg – A huge, if unintentionally-secret, Pennsylvania Game Commission program may finally be coming to light. For the better part of seven decades, the commission has been convincing farmers, foresters, and other private landowners to

Campaign mounts for Sunday hunting

Harrisburg – The Governor’s Advisory Council on Hunting, Fishing and Conservation has kicked off an educational campaign about the benefits of allowing hunting on Sundays in the state. The effort is in support of a

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