Pennsylvania’s Outdoor Calendar
Staff Report
December 5, 2023
A look at upcoming outdoor-related events from across Pennsylvania published in the Dec. 8, 2023, print edition of Pennsylvania Outdoor News.
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Pennsylvania Cuffs & Collars: Minks confiscated from household
Staff Report
December 5, 2023
Pennsylvania cuffs and collars are field reports from Wildlife Game Wardens and Waterways Conservation Officers published in the Dec. 8, 2023, edition of Pennsylvania Outdoor News.
Salt patches spreading on the Chesapeake’s shores as rising seas are hurting farmlands
Jeremy Cox / Bay Journal News Service
December 5, 2023
Climate change is claiming farmland at “an alarmingly high rate” in one of the Mid-Atlantic’s most productive agricultural regions, inflicting tens of millions of dollars in economic damage, a team of scientists says in a
Pennsylvania Mixed Bag: 2,500 acre addition to Pinchot State Forest
Staff and News Reports
December 5, 2023
The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources recently announced that the agency has added the 2,500-acre Miller Mountain property in Wyoming County, and the property is now included in Pinchot State Forest.
Fishing mortality continues to haunt East’s striped bass
Tom Venesky
December 5, 2023
Despite increased catches of Atlantic striped bass in 2022, fishing mortality threatens to derail efforts to increase the species’ spawning stock by 2029.
After Atlantic striped bass were declared overfished by the Atlantic States
Luzerne County, Pa., men face many wildlife poaching charges
Pennsylvania Game Commission Reports
December 5, 2023
Two Luzerne County residents have been charged for the unlawful taking, killing and possession of numerous white-tailed deer and other related criminal offenses, according to Pennsylvania Game Commission officials.
Michael Terpak, 38 and Charles
Business as usual? All Pennsylvania Fish & Boat commissioners reappointed
Mark Nale
December 5, 2023
A new process for selecting commissioners for both the Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission and the Game Commission was instituted by Gov. Josh Shapiro’s administration earlier this year.
The new process was supposed to
Kip Adams of the National Deer Association breaks down the science of the whitetail rut
Mike Moore
December 5, 2023
If hunters better understood the science behind the whitetail rut it just might make them better at pursuing their quarry.
In the Nov. 15 edition of the Deer Season 365 podcast presented by the
Star Watch: Here’s how to find the Winter Triangle this December
Bob Drieslein
December 4, 2023
In a previous article, we talked about the “Summer Triangle,” an asterism formed by the stars Vega, Deneb and Altair. Now, nearly six months later, a similar feature comes into view in a different part
