Opinion

I knew what was going to happen the second my editor told me a letter had come in reporting a mountain lion sighting. He would ask me to follow up and do a story, which

Over the years, I have heard many complaints about Pennsylvania Game Commission wildlife conservation officers being overzealous, unfair and too tough. But a report given by the agency’s law-enforcement chief at the commissioners’ recent work

The Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission is considering a ban on bait fishing for 7 miles of Penns Creek, one of Pennsylvania’s best wild-trout streams. The section in question (from Elk Creek downstream to the

Last week I spent a day with Pennsylvania Game Commission land manager Keith Sanford trapping and banding doves in Montour and Northumberland counties. The area is filled with picturesque farms and sprawling fields of switchgrass

The bear that Wildlife Conservation Officer Dave Allen live-trapped last month in Conyngham Township, Luzerne County, is so rare that the Pennsylvania Game Commission’s bear biologist has only handled two in 12 years. Out of

I am always amazed at the interconnectedness of nature. One recently revealed example: it seems the explosive growth in the black-legged tick population and the burgeoning epidemic of Lyme disease is caused by a complex

The Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission hopes that a multi-year license will help slow the trend of anglers who drop in and out of the sport. The agency has said that significant number of anglers

The behemoth woodchuck ambled a few yards into the pasture and munched on a patch of white clover. It was a 90-degree July afternoon, and the succulent clover was temptation enough to lure the fat