Fishing
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
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
Charges dropped in shooting of black bear
Coshocton, Ohio – Just hours before it was scheduled for a jury trial, prosecutors dismissed the case against a Coshocton County man charged with killing an endangered black bear. But, the defendant will still pay
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
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
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
Battle looming on Sunday hunting
Harrisburg – The appointment of a Sunday-hunting opponent as chairman of the Senate’s Game and Fisheries Committee has thrown a monkey wrench into efforts to eliminate the state’s last remaining Blue Law. Senator-elect Richard Alloway,
