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New game wardens join the Pennsylvania Game Commission’s ranks
Their training now complete, Pennsylvania’s newest state game wardens are working in their newly assigned districts.
The 35th Class of the Pennsylvania Game Commission’s Ross Leffler School of Conservation graduated Feb. 3, adding 12
Pennsylvania Mixed Bag: Daniele Gualtieri joins staff at Allegheny National Forest
The U.S. Forest Service recently announced that Daniele Gualtieri is serving as the new Marienville District Ranger in the Allegheny National Forest. She follows in the footsteps of former District Ranger Robert Fallon, who retired

Sentencing complete in 2022 Pennsylvania poaching case involving 26 whitetails
Three Westmoreland County, Pa., individuals have been sentenced for killing 26 white-tailed deer during a two-month poaching spree in the county in October and November 2022.
Chase Piper, 20, of Derry Township, and Angelica

50 years later, Illinois hunters benefit from projects, partnerships with NWTF
The Illinois spring turkey season is roughly six weeks away, so it seems like a good time to address the ongoing effort to keep the state’s populations strong – or at least keep it from

Jeremiah Haas: Shed hunting helps keep track of my old friend ‘Blade Runner’
Working and playing in the outdoors is a real blessing for those of us who are able to do it on a regular basis. And while fall successes in the field bring pictures, meat and

Michigan’s pheasant release program growing slowly
Michigan’s pheasant release program on state game areas was a success again this year, according to Adam Bump, upland game bird specialist with the Department of Natural Resources.
“Everything seemed to go well,” Bump

New York Reader Stories: Catching brook trout on little Catskill stream worth the drive
A three-hour drive may seem like a substantial trek for some. For us two young fly-fishermen, it is an easily feasible day trip.
Time flies by when you are daydreaming of a small mountain

Nearly two-thirds of Michigan Upper Peninsula hunters rate 2023 deer season as ‘poor’
The Michigan DNR’s annual Upper Peninsula Deer Camp Survey from the 2023 firearms season confirmed that deer sightings and hunter success were down significantly from the year before, especially in the region’s western counties. <br

For info and entertainment, here are some outdoors podcast options for you
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I listen to them daily. I enjoy the immediacy of the spoken word. My choices cover a range of topics,