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Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Dec. 5, 2025 edition of Pennsylvania Outdoor News.
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Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Dec. 5, 2025 edition of Pennsylvania Outdoor News.

When I first heard about the new study of ways the Game and Fish & Boat commissions should work together, immediately I thought of Senate Majority Leader Joe Pittman and his comments about a merger

The Department of the Interior’s U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Nov. 19 announced four proposed rules to restore Endangered Species Act regulations to their 2019 and 2020 framework.

Sneaking quietly along the ridge in the inky-black stillness of predawn, a fresh coating of snow revealed where bears had clearly overturned leaves while rooting for acorns.
Multiple sets of tracks added confidence that

The recent story about limitations on making videos on public lands, and making money from them, raises a lot of questions.
For example, what is the difference between videos, (moving pictures), and photographs, (still

Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Nov. 21, 2025 edition of Pennsylvania Outdoor News.

With the archery buck harvest surpassing the firearms buck harvest for the first time in Pennsylvania last year, a note I received recently made a point we hear often in a novel way. I’ll share

George Slinzer passed away in 2001, and to many who knew him he was simply the caretaker for a small borough in Luzerne County, Pa.
But in the world of archery, Slinzer was a

Tom Venesky’s recent column suggests that chronic wasting disease is no reason to stop hunting deer. I’m not so certain of this.
While his suggestion of getting your deer tested before consumption is sound,
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