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New Pennsylvania Game Commission office will aid landowners looking to manage for wildlife
The Landowner Resource Office was created to consolidate the Ag Tag and Deer Management Assistance Program, along with enhance existing programs such as the Certified Hunter Program – which has transitioned from a regional pilot

Pennsylvania Mixed Bag: PF&BC helps Coast Guard at NFL Draft
The Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission assisted the U.S. Coast Guard Marine Safety Unit in enforcing a security zone on local waterways during the National Football League Draft April 23-25 to ensure public safety, safeguard

Pennsylvania expected to remove conservation order season for light geese in spring ’27
In 1999, when the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service issued its Light Geese Conservation Order – which allows a special season to harvest more of the overabundant white birds – snow geese populations had grown

Fighting hybrid cattails with fire proves tough, underscoring the need for expertise
This is not a story of a successful habitat restoration. Instead, this is a chronicle of a less-than-totally-successful operation in which, nevertheless, lessons were learned.
In the middle of Crow Wing County, Minn., land

Trout stocked in April are harder to catch in May; here’s how to adjust
It can be almost too easy to catch trout during the first couple of weeks after stocking occurs. Most trout fin for a week or two, often visible, in the same pool or very near

Commentary: Pennsylvania’s Saturday deer openers boost early pressure, reduce hunter success
I decided to research the Saturday vs. Monday deer season opener after seeing the paltry number of campers at Parker Dam State Park this past rifle season and wondering if the change in human behavior

Ron Schara: Opening day tips aplenty… maybe too many
I’m getting confused.
Again. Happens every countdown to Minnesota’s famed fishing opener, which is May 9 this year. This is when social media blows up with how-to-catch-walleyes advice ahead of the opener. Fish shallow.

Looking back on the glory days of hunting in the backcountry of Northern New York
One evening when we were hunting at West Canada Lake one of the guys mentioned that he would like to revisit the site of an old lumber camp at Twin Lakes where he had spent

Examining a century-old snapshot of Wisconsin’s outdoors
A procrastinator is defined as someone “who delays or puts off things that should be done in a timely manner.” I could be a poster child for the word, at least until I run out