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Forest regeneration studies controversial

By Bob Frye Capital Correspondent Harrisburg — Is Pennsylvania’s deer-management program – designed ostensibly to balance deer numbers with the amount of available habitat – achieving any success? Some researchers and land managers say it

PF&BC to track disappearing trout

By Deborah Weisberg Contributing Writer Harrisburg — The Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission will begin surveying select streams March 20 to see if a problem with disappearing trout is a northeast region quirk or is

PGC seems headed to deer compromise

By Jeff Mulhollem Editor Harrisburg — It looks like the Pennsylvania Game Commis-sion is heading toward a compromise on deer-management. The agency’s deer-management biologists have been directed to present commissioners with a range of options

Maps showing huntable private land nearly ready

By P.J. Reilly Southeast Correspondent Harrisburg — The Pennsyl-vania Game Commission has thousands of acres of private lands enrolled in public-access programs. But the only way to locate them in recent years has been to

PGC throws book at deer farm operator

By Dan Nephin Associated Press Writer Brookville, Pa. — A deer breeder awaiting sentencing in the theft of a massive buck from another breeder has been charged with operating an illegal deer farm and hunting

Youth takes special banded goose

By Freddie McKnight Southcentral Correspondent Mapleton, Pa. — For a child, it can seem like an eternity must pass before the arrival of the magical age of 12 – the legal hunting age in the

Lawmakers unmoved by PGC money plight

By Bob Frye Capital Correspondent Harrisburg — Are at least some Pennsylvania Game Commission officials willing to strike a deal on deer management to get an increase in hunting license fees? Some believe the answer

Snowy owls invade Pennsylvania

By Mark Nale Northcentral Correspondent State College, Pa. — Most Pennsylvania hunters and anglers live their entire lives without ever seeing one snowy owl. This winter, however, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and even Maryland residents are

New CWD research clouds safety issue

By Bob Frye Capital Correspondent Harrisburg — Scientists have said for years that sportsmen shouldn’t quit hunting just because chronic wasting disease is present in some deer and elk herds. They’re still saying that, even

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