Opinions
Ohio could do better for traveling sportsmen
Maybe the clearest way of understanding that Ohio is sometimes headed in the wrong direction is seen with the first – and last – rest stops on Interstate-71 just north of Cincinnati.
Traveling north after
Notes off a soiled cuff: Recapping a busy recent period in Pennsylvania’s outdoors
Just before this issue went to press, we learned that the Game Commission recently charged six southwestern Pennsylvania residents with hundreds of wildlife violations after they admitted to illegally shooting and killing between 100 and
Pennsylvania Letters to the Editor: Sen. Laughlin is the enemy
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the June 9, 2023 edition of Pennsylvania Outdoor News.
Wondering about reason for recent bear attack in Pennsylvania
When I’m walking deep in the woods during the pre-dawn darkness to my deer stand, or busting through an impenetrable swamp to reach a bass pond, sometimes I wonder if danger is nearby? After all,
New research takes closer look at tick hosts in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania notoriously sits in the top 20% when it comes to tick-borne illnesses in the United States, with more than 400,000 people estimated to be infected with Lyme disease annually.
With expansive tracts
Mark Nale: Pennsylvania game commissioners got it right on doe license allocations
At their April 2023 meeting, the Board of Game Commissioners made the right move toward better scientific management of Pennsylvania’s deer herd. They shocked some hunters by not interfering with the antlerless license allocations put
Do brown trout have any self respect?
I’m a boat fisherman when it comes to fishing the Great Lakes.
Tom, a friend of mine, prefers fishing from the shore or on one of the piers to catch his share of
Lazy, summertime fishing – it’s hard to beat
I like to think of it as stealth fishing – tiptoeing quietly into skinny water in my kayak in search of bass and panfish.
Mine is a cruising kayak, a 14-foot Current Designs boat
Doubling up on turkeys in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula
In all of the years I’ve been turkey hunting, it’s almost always been with a partner and we’ve almost always both carried shotguns, but we’ve rarely figured that each of us would be walking out
