Pennsylvania’s Outdoor Calendar
Staff Report
October 10, 2023
A look at upcoming outdoor-related events from across Pennsylvania published in the Oct. 13, 2023, edition of Pennsylvania Outdoor News.
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Pennsylvania’s Dan Hill fondly remembered as a true advocate for sportsmen
Deborah Weisberg
October 10, 2023
Erie County Attorney Dan Hill joined the Pennsylvania Game Commission board in 2005 when hunters were still adjusting to the controversial deer herd reduction policy implemented by the agency years earlier.
One of Hill’s
Pennsylvania nears its perfect period of archery hunting
Ron Steffe
October 9, 2023
The first week of archery deer hunting has passed in Pennsylvania. It was a warm week, not unusual for early periods of bow season in years past .
Times are changing, though. Rainstorms
Whitetail cull in Pittsburgh’s Frick Park off to slow start
Deborah Weisberg
October 9, 2023
Mountain biker Ted Melnyk stocked up on bright-colored jerseys in anticipation of the managed bowhunting set to begin in Pittsburgh’s Frick Park Sept. 30.
An avid cyclist, Melnyk had been following discussions about the
Pennsylvania state game land tours set Oct. 15
Pennsylvania Game Commission Reports
October 9, 2023
The following tours of state game lands are scheduled for Sunday, Oct. 15.
Pheasants Forever offers Pennsylvania farmers financial incentive to create field edges for wildlife
Tom Venesky
October 8, 2023
A new program from Pheasants Forever gives farmers a financial incentive to set aside areas of their fields to give a boost to wildlife and the Chesapeake Bay.
The Field Border Incentive Program
Surviving loose minks released from Pennsylvania farm face grim future
Tom Venesky
October 6, 2023
The estimated hundreds of minks that are still on the loose in Pennsylvania face a grim future as cold weather approaches.
According to Mark Stahl, who operates the minks farm near Sunbury, Pa.,
Vandals release hundreds of minks from Northampton County farm in Pennsylvania
Deborah Weisberg
October 6, 2023
Hundreds of minks escaped from a Northampton County farm in mid-September in an apparent act of agricultural criminal mischief.
Someone is believed to have crept to Richard H. Stahl Sons fur farm in Rockefeller
Pinchot State Forest in Pennsylvania is expanded near Scranton
Staff and News Reports
October 6, 2023
More than 400 acres of forestland along Interstate 81 near Scranton have been added to the Pinchot State Forest, forever protecting some of the last remaining high-quality wildlife habitat in the area while opening new
