Pennsylvania’s Outdoor Calendar
Staff Report
January 27, 2025
Here’s a look at upcoming outdoors-related events from across Pennsylvania published in the Jan. 31, 2025, edition of Outdoor News.
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Pennsylvania Cuffs & Collars: Two arrested for poaching spree during rifle deer season
Staff Report
January 27, 2025
Pennsylvania cuffs and collars are field reports from Wildlife Game Wardens and Waterways Conservation Officers. These reports are from the Jan. 31, 2025, edition of Outdoor News.
Tom Venesky: Antler restrictions hinder CWD control in Pennsylvania
Tom Venesky
January 27, 2025
I don’t mind antler point restrictions, but they’re not for everybody.
While the general consensus is larger bucks have increased since the Pennsylvania Game Commission implemented antler point restrictions in 2002, there have been
Pennsylvania Letters to the Editor: Print Pennsylvania-only photos
Pennsylvania Letters to the Editor
January 27, 2025
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Jan. 31, 2025, edition of Pennsylvania Outdoor News.
Balancing wildlife, agriculture is topic of farm show session in Pennsylvania
Staff Report
January 27, 2025
In a joint effort to address concerns and reports of increased deer pressure on agriculture crops across the state, a joint town hall meeting was held on Jan. 9 at the Pennsylvania Farm Show to
Rhododendron is Mother Nature’s winter thermometer
Mark Nale
January 27, 2025
Rhododendron leaves hang curled and seemingly lifeless on a frigid winter morning.
As temperatures rise into the 20s, rhododendron’s leathery, evergreen leaves uncurl slowly to greet the morning sun. When temperatures reach the 30s,
At long last, ice fishing occurring across most of Pennsylvania
Deborah Weisberg
January 26, 2025
The deep freeze of recent weeks had ice anglers across Pennsylvania dusting off the tip-ups, augers, and other gear they hadn’t used in at least two years.
And with more frosty weather in the
Nature Smart: What to know about avian keratin disorder
Stan Tekiela
January 26, 2025
Often when we view nature, we assume that everything in a critter’s life is smooth and easy. No major challenges – just a clean, natural way of life devoid of the stress that we humans
Steve Piatt: An unexpected big buck for a hunter who doesn’t harvest big bucks
Steve Piatt
January 25, 2025
My deer-hunting history is one of forkhorns, 3-pointers and, after Pennsylvania implemented antler restrictions, a few basket-racked sixes and sevens, as well as antlerless whitetails and seasons with unfilled tags. Even my first big-woods Adirondack
