
Pennsylvania Letters to the Editor: Alternate deer season openers
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the May 24, 2024, edition of Pennsylvania Outdoor News.
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Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the May 24, 2024, edition of Pennsylvania Outdoor News.

Recent comments from a Game Commission biologist describe how chronic wasting disease is spreading even faster than expected.
And recently, I read where two hunters in Texas died after eating infected deer meat. Even

The Chesapeake Bay Program announced new results in early May, derived from its watershed model, that estimate jurisdictions in the Chesapeake Bay watershed have made progress toward meeting their 2025 pollution reduction goals.

Stephen Smith, the new executive director of the Pennsylvania Game Commission, was an attorney in private practice when Pennsylvania’s so-called deer wars inspired him to rethink his career.
As an avid hunter – and

Pennsylvania Game Warden Mike Yeck gets about a dozen calls a year regarding waterfowl with fishing line entangling their feet.
Sometimes it’s multiple calls about the same bird.
“It’s usually geese more than

The Great Lakes of today are not the pristine waters of 300 years ago. Dams, industry, and the introduction of invasive species have forever altered the ecology of these waters and their fisheries. Through it

The fight is far from over, but scientists are increasingly optimistic that once-ubiquitous Eastern hemlock trees might, with help, bounce back from a 50-year assault by invasive woolly adelgids.
The aphid-like insects, native to

The rain held off and the weather was cool and cloudy – perfect for finishing up a massive planting project on Collins Pine Company lands with Seneca Resources on the border of Elk and McKean

The McKeever Tract in Pennsylvania’s Clear Creek State Forest recently was inducted into the Old-Growth Forest Network.
“DCNR is pleased to have the designation bestowed on a portion of the McKeever Tract in Clear
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