Pennsylvania letters to the editor: Vote needed on deer opener
Pennsylvania Letters to the Editor
January 18, 2023
Reader-submitted letters to the editor from Pennsylvania Outdoor News.
Pennsylvania
Notes off a soiled cuff: Thoughts on blue catfish restoration, deer legislation
Jeff Mulhollem
January 17, 2023
The agency is trying to restore a blue catfish population in the three rivers near Pittsburgh and, at the same time, holding its breath hoping blue catfish don’t get around the Conowingo Dam and become
Trial for Pennsylvania hunter charged in shooting death starting in Colorado
Deborah Weisberg
January 17, 2023
A new trial for Ronald Morosko, the Pennsylvania muzzleloader hunter charged in the shooting death of a Texas bowhunter, was slated to begin Jan. 17 in Montezuma County, Colorado.
Pennsylvania Game Commission asks the public to report turkey flocks for research
Staff and News Reports
January 17, 2023
Game Commission crews will visit sites to assess them for the potential to trap turkeys. Turkeys will not be moved; they’ll simply be leg banded and released on site.
Pennsylvania Mixed Bag: State invests $7.3 million in recreation, conservation
Staff Report
January 17, 2023
Outdoor news items from around Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission wants blue catfish restored in Three Rivers system, nowhere else
Tom Venesky
January 17, 2023
Ultimately, the hope is to restore populations of largest of all North American catfish species to the Ohio, Monongahela and lower Allegheny rivers – the three waterways where blue catfish are considered native.
Anywhere
At 96 years young, Pennsylvania hunter finally gets a bear
Deborah Weisberg
January 17, 2023
Never say never. Just ask Lehigh County hunter, Jack Lewis, who, at 96, harvested his first-ever black bear during the special firearms season last fall.
It only took 82 years, and not for lack
Keep wildlife in Pittman-Robertson funding
Ben Moyer
January 17, 2023
This column recently described a shooting range operated by the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission. The agency built that range, and eight others, with funds from the Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Act of 1937,
Is reducing fall turkey harvest in Pennsylvania really needed?
Tom Venesky
January 17, 2023
I am not out there banding birds or rocket netting flocks like a biologist, but I do cover a lot of ground in the fall across seven counties and two regions (southwest and northeast) hunting
