Fishing
Former VP hunts pheasants in SD
Pierre, S.D. (AP) – This time as a private citizen, former Vice President Dick Cheney hunted pheasants in South Dakota this week. In past years, Air Force II would touch down at the Pierre airport
WI DNR says deer hunter have some common questions
Spooner, Wis. (AP) – Wisconsin’s nine-day whitetail deer hunt is just around the corner and the Department of Natural Resources says there are some common questions that hunters ask. The agency says one of them
Mont. hunter shoots threatening mountain lion
Billings, Mont. (AP) – A 41-year-old Florence man shot and killed a young mountain lion after it stalked his father on a hunting trip near Boulder. Late last month, 64-year-old Duane Cole and his son
Crazy weather slows fall stocking
Ortonville, Minn. – After 30-some years of working for DNR Fisheries, Norm Haukos is refining a new skill this fall: freeing department vehicles lodged in mud. “I’ve never had a year when we’ve had to
Higher gun, ammo sales to help here
State College, Pa. – No matter which side they fall on the political divide that has arisen in this country, Pennsylvania sportsmen are going to benefit from increased sales of firearms and ammunition nationwide.
License and stamp sales lag
St. Paul – Pheasant and duck population surveys earlier this year showed numbers of both species had dropped since 2008. So far this year, the number of hunters targeting them also has dropped. As of
PGC’s Delaney wants special youth rabbit season
Harrisburg – Jay Delaney wants to take an idea that seems to have worked and expand it.
Lawmakers ponder getting treasurers out of licensing
Harrisburg – If critics have their way, the folks who process pink envelopes will instead be handed pink slips when it comes to issuing doe tags.
Gas-drilling blitz spooks PF&BC
Harrisburg, Pa. – Pennsylvania’s position as an industrial powerhouse over the last two centuries came largely from the oil and then coal that were discovered and carelessly removed from the ground beneath the commonwealth.
