
Pennsylvania Letters to the Editor: Be a turkey hunter, not a shooter
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the July 3, 2026 edition of Pennsylvania Outdoor News.
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Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the July 3, 2026 edition of Pennsylvania Outdoor News.

The Pennsylvania Game Commission is again asking the public to report sightings of all wild turkeys they see this summer. The annual Wild Turkey Summer Sighting Survey runs July 1 through Aug. 31.
Public

No fewer than six bills are in play in the Pennsylvania General Assembly that, if passed, will affect hunting, trapping, hunters and trappers in the state.
A rundown of the legislation follows: House Bill

I bowhunt whitetails in multiple states from late August through December. There’s pheasant hunting with my black Lab, Gus, from October through January and turkey hunting multiple states in the spring.
That covers a

It’s no secret that trail cameras have changed the way we hunt whitetails. Combine them with mock scrapes so a hunter can “take inventory” of a property, and you have a deadly one-two combination.

A few hours north of Michigan’s Portage Lake, Robert Hinds decided to add a $50 fuel surcharge to the fishing trips he offers as the owner and operator of Central Coast Angling.
He tows

Although it may not have moved yet beyond the American southwest, Pennsylvania officials are taking measures to protect against a new and potentially devastating threat to livestock and wildlife – the flesh-eating new world screwworm

During a hearing in which a bill was introduced to bring accountability to how both Pennsylvania wildlife agencies choose executive directors, an attempt by one legislator to shed light on what he alleges is “employee

The Schuylkill River Water Trail has been designated Pennsylvania’s first – and so far only – National Water Trail by the U.S. Department of the Interior.
Already a National Recreation Trail, the Schuylkill was
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