Hunting
Group: Scrap minimum hunting age to help recruit new hunters
By Bob Frye Capital Correspondent Harrisburg — There’s no “C” in hunter, but perhaps there should be, since that’s the grade sportsmen are earning when it comes to recruiting youngsters. A new, just-released report, titled
Committee: DNR Game & Fish spending receives thumbs up
By Joe Albert Staff Writer St. Paul – The DNR is mostly making good use of the money raised by sales of licenses for hunting and fishing, according to the group charged each year with
Senate approves bill to ban hunting via Internet
By Bill Parker Editor Lansing — By early fall, it will be illegal in Michigan to participate in any form of Internet hunting if a package of bills continues to sail through the state legislature.
Sunday hunting is back in spotlight
By Bob Frye Capital Correspondent Harrisburg — Jeff Knight grew up hunting in the woods of Huntingdon County, but you won’t find him there much now. That’s not just because he now calls Nashville, Tenn.,
Alt’s article in Philly paper ticks off PGC
By Jeff Mulhollem Editor Harrisburg — A dispute between the former deer-management chief of the Pennsylvania Game Commission and the agency he left in disgust last year has boiled over into the op-ed pages of
Blight resistant chestnut trees close
By Jeff Mulhollem Editor University Park, Pa. — As he helped administer the fungus that causes chestnut blight to more than 200 young hybrid trees in the seed orchard at the Arboretum at Penn State
Judge: Jurors for Vang trial to come from Dane
Hayward, Wis. (AP) — Jurors from 250 miles away will decide the fate of a St. Paul, Minn., man accused of killing six deer hunters in the Wisconsin Northwoods last fall, a judge ruled after
DEC pitches gas/oil land lease proposal
By Steve Piatt Editor Albany — DEC’s plan to lease 21,000 acres of state land for gas and oil exploration could generate several million dollars in revenue. That’s the good news. The bad news is
