Fishing
Deer hunt ends with fatality in Beaver
Pittsburgh – Tragedy marred the final day of firearms deer season with the shooting death of a Beaver County hunter who was standing next to his 9-year-old son. Duane Smith, 35, of Frankfort Springs, was
Falconry: An ancient art still done in state
Port Matilda, Pa. – The pigeon fluttered his wings and, from a half-mile away, the slight motion caught the migrating hawk’s attention. The hawk turned his head, adjusted his wings, and began to descend toward
220-incher falls to suburban Franklin County bowhunter
Circleville, Ohio – Rob McCarley is no stranger to seeing – and ultimately shooting – big deer in Ohio’s woods. But the buck the Circleville farmer scored on Dec. 8 was not just another big
The year in review: 2008
While there were plenty of significant outdoors stories in the past 12 months, the biggest one had to be passage of the dedicated sales tax amendment. Ten years in the making, it passed by 56
Zebra mussels now infest Susquehanna
Lancaster, Pa. – Zebra mussels have finally shown up in the lower Susquehanna River, potentially threatening the river’s prized smallmouth bass and other game fish. If they get established here the way they have in
With dedicated funding in the bag, what now?
St. Paul – For the past 10 years, the most dominant outdoors-related theme at the Legislature has been dedicated funding for natural resources. While outdoors proponents worked on other issues, too – funding for wildlife
NRB gives DNR room to review deer herd
Madison – Recent deer seasons may be lowering the deer population to a greater extent than the DNR expected for this year, but deer numbers aren’t down enough to cancel December and January deer seasons
Questions abound as council moves ahead
St. Paul – Even after a 10-year fight to allow citizens the right to decide whether to dedicate funds to natural resources _- then the months-long campaign to ensure voters approved the measure, which they
USFS on the verge of new habitat efforts
Rhinelander, Wis. – In spite of the tangled web of laws, regulations, and lawsuits that have strangled U.S. Forest Service efforts to manage wildlife habitat on the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest, a breakthrough is in the
