Pennsylvania’s Outdoor Calendar
Outdoor News
December 29, 2025
A look at upcoming outdoors-related events from across Pennsylvania published in the Jan. 2, 2026 edition of Outdoor News.
Hunting
Pennsylvania Cuffs & Collars: Charges pending for shooting potential trophy buck out the window
Staff Report
December 29, 2025
Pennsylvania cuffs and collars are field reports from Wildlife Game Wardens. These reports are from the Jan. 2, 2026 edition of Outdoor News.
Tom Venesky: Time for Pennsylvania to follow other states’ lead when it comes to turkey management?
Tom Venesky
December 29, 2025
Pennsylvania is a top turkey hunting state, but we’re not alone.
And one of the other hotspot states is changing things up in ways that might benefit the turkey population, and hunters, in Pennsylvania.
The story of the heaviest bear taken during Pennsylvania’s 2025 season
Mark Nale
December 29, 2025
Nate Miller, a 38-year-old construction worker from Beaver County, had the hunt of a lifetime on the opening day of Pennsylvania’s regular firearms bear season.
Miller’s friend, Dan Druschel, provided Miller with the GPS
Pennsylvania Mixed Bag: Two-day regulated deer hunt at Presque Isle State Park
Staff and News Reports
December 29, 2025
Sixty-two hunters participated in a regulated hunt in Presque Isle State Park and harvested 14 antlerless deer and two bucks over a two-day special hunt.
Whitetails are survival machines in winter; here’s how they do it
Outdoor News
December 29, 2025
While the Upper Midwest has experienced some bouts of mild weather the past few weeks, it’s undeniable that winter is here. We’ve gone through a few blizzards, 40-mph winds, and temperatures that didn’t crack double
Record catfish, massive ice storm highlight Michigan’s 2025 outdoors
Bill Parker
December 29, 2025
There was no shortage of eye-popping news stories on the pages of Michigan Outdoor News last year. From confirming breeding cougars in the Upper Peninsula to a state record fish and a massive ice storm,
Steve Piatt: The stay-at-home hunter
Steve Piatt
December 28, 2025
It is Saturday, Dec. 6, 7:15 a.m., the second Saturday of Pennsylvania’s firearms deer season.
My wife, Paula, has been settled into her tree stand for the past hour as she looks to connect
Les Winkeler: It’s been a good year of long walks, talks with Milo
Les Winkeler
December 28, 2025
Although my wife and I are approaching the age where buying green bananas is considered speculative, we decided to bring a puppy into our home in late summer of 2023.
Since golden retrievers have
