
Pennsylvania Mixed Bag: Pine Creek Rail Trail Named Trail of Year
The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources recently recognized the Pine Creek Rail Trail – Lycoming and Tioga counties – as Pennsylvania’s 2026 Trail of the Year.
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The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources recently recognized the Pine Creek Rail Trail – Lycoming and Tioga counties – as Pennsylvania’s 2026 Trail of the Year.

Mark Kerr, a vice president for the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 114, which represents the game wardens and waterways conservation officers of the Pennsylvania Game and Fish & Boat commissions, gave a compelling presentation

For most hunters, taking a trophy bear is a once-in-a-lifetime accomplishment.
For Lapeer County’s Dave Demsky, it happened on his very first bear hunt.
And not just any bear. Demsky’s Menominee County bruin

They are more than mere well-behaved dogs. They are crime solvers, finders of the lost and injured, and ambassadors of good will for the Ohio Division of Wildlife.
They are the division’s “canine officers”

I completed my hunting safety course at the age of 14. At 16, I had two seasons of small game hunting under my belt.

We take photographs of it, measure it, weigh it, rate it and then publish it. That isn’t inherently wrong. Throughout the years I have admired many trophy deer, pretty fish and memorable harvests.

The big buck strode down the trail next to posted signs, invisibly and unconsciously misting scent from multiple glands, the way of his kind. Every one of his thousands and varied epithelial tissues were expelling

A stiff southeast breeze was blowing through the woods as I reached back in my treestand to grab a facemask from my backpack, which was hanging from the side of the tree. After multiple days

Thanks to a recent update to the Electronic Licensing System from vendor PayIt Outdoors, the Minnesota DNR’s new mobile licensing app may temporarily not properly display licenses.
Jamie Gangaware, ELS executive for the Division
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