Pennsylvania Mixed Bag: State invests $7.3 million in recreation, conservation
Staff Report
January 17, 2023
Outdoor news items from around Pennsylvania.
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
Greg Rothman ready to listen in the Pennsylvania Senate
Tom Venesky
January 17, 2023
New chair of game, fish panel aware of sportsmen’s issues.
Cuffs & Collars: Field reports from Pennsylvania Wildlife Game Wardens and Waterways Conservation Officers
Staff Report
January 17, 2023
Outdoors enforcement reports from across Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania calendar of events
Staff Report
January 17, 2023
A list of upcoming outdoor-related events across Pennsylvania.
Ice fishing good but different on Pennsylvania’s Nockamixon, Towhee
Vic Attardo
January 17, 2023
Nockamixon is a giant at 1,450 acres while Towhee, at just 48 acres, is like the small bird with the same name.
