Hunting

By Jeff Mulhollem Editor Harrisburg — The average Pennsylvania hunter doesn’t trust Michael DiBerardinis at all, and he knows it. “The first problem is probably that I’m from Philadelphia,” the secretary of the Department of

By Bob Frye Capital Correspondent Harrisburg — At the Pennsylvania Game Commission, white-tailed deer — or at least discussions about how to manage them — are always in season. That was proven again at the

By Jeff Mulhollem Editor Harrisburg — It has often been said by folks who should know that Sunday hunting will never become a reality in Pennsylvania until the state’s largest sportsmen’s organization is behind it.

By Jeff Mulhollem Editor Harrisburg — In response to chronic wasting disease being found in a road-killed West Virginia buck near the Pennsylvania border, the state’s CWD Task Force recently announced a series of measures.

By Jeff Mulhollem Editor A recent Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission report saying that despite smallmouth mortalities from a bacterial infection this summer, the bass situation on the Susquehanna looks positive, was greeted by disbelief

By Jeff Mulhollem Editor Harrisburg — Sagging hunting license sales rebounded some last month — and antlerless deer tags sold at a brisk pace — leaving game commissioners and agency staffers to hope that the

By Jeff Mulhollem Editor University Park, Pa. „ These days, with repeated stark TV images of flooding in New Orleans and devastation in states bordering the Gulf of Mexico „ all wrought by Hurricane Katrina