Fishing

Harrisburg – At a time when the natural gas industry, landowners, local governments and other state agencies are bracing for an economic boom from an unprecedented wave of natural-gas drilling, Pennsylvania Game Commission officials recently

Cambridge Springs, Pa. – Well, at least hotel space wasn’t an issue. State lawmakers have been saying for three years that if the Pennsylvania Game Commission wants them to increase the cost of hunting license

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 – In years past, the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources has welcomed with open arms hunters willing to shoot antlerless deer. That still remains the case, but with a twist. This fall,

Harrisburg – The state senator who recently introduced an amendment to gut the Pennsylvania Game Commission’s deputy conservation officer program has signalled he intends to follow through with his action later this year. Even though

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 – 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