PF&BC chief: ‘I do not favor a merger’
Harrisburg – Doug Austen does not support the idea of merging the Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission with any other state agency. If you don’t believe that – and some within his own agency don’t
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Harrisburg – Doug Austen does not support the idea of merging the Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission with any other state agency. If you don’t believe that – and some within his own agency don’t
Harrisburg – With no smoking gun to point to for the die-off of young smallmouth bass in the Susquehanna River in the summers of 2005 and 2007, nor for what appears to be an ongoing
Harrisburg – For Pennsylvania game commissioners, wild hogs present the worst sort of conundrum. They want the destructive pests destroyed, but they are afraid to ask hunters to kill them. At their quarterly meeting in

Harrisburg – At a meeting of their Fisheries Committee sometime in the next few weeks, Pennsylvania Board of Fish & Boat commissioners will consider a proposal to expand the area of the state having the
Harrisburg – Pennsylvania game commissioners have given preliminary approval to a change in the structure of the firearms deer season, based on the promise of a study that it hasn’t started, has no money for,
Terry Tuma’s interview with the Minnesota DNR on Walleye Fishing. Special thanks to the DNR for the permission to post this. (36:36)

Erie, Pa. – In this city’s red- hot waterfront real estate market, the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources has landed a cool deal. Its offer to buy the popular Elk Creek access area
Pittsburgh – While hunters lament the low number of white-tailed deer in some parts of Pennsylvania, poachers are having a field day. Laws without teeth and archaic fines have made the state – second only
Harrisburg – Before the Game Commission met to consider proposed changes to its deer-hunting seasons, it seemed nobody had a good thing to say about them. Criticism was already being leveled at the agency from
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