Thanks to a federal Pittman-Robertson grant, the Pennsylvania Game Commission is once again able to provide school and other Pennsylvania public libraries with complimentary subscriptions to Pennsylvania Game News, the agency’s official monthly publication for 80 years. The agency was forced to terminate nearly all complimentary Game News subscriptions in 2005, as part of a [...]
Image via Wikipedia HARRISBURG – The state’s early firearms antlerless deer seasons – early muzzleloader season, Oct. 17-24, and special firearms season for junior, senior, active duty military and certain disabled hunters, Oct. 22-24 – will soon be here, along with seasons for squirrels and grouse, so there will be plenty of activity in the [...]
Image by tpeñalver via Flickr Pennsylvania Game Commission Wildlife Conservation Officers (WCOs), Land Management Group Supervisors (LMGSs) and foresters spend a considerable amount of time gathering information about wildlife population trends in their districts. With the hunting and trapping seasons just around the corner, the Game Commission now is sharing that information – through its [...]
Image by lcthulou via Flickr Harrisburg, PA – The number of Pennsylvania fishing licenses sold through September 13 – 871,499 –has already eclipsed the total yearly sales for each of the last four years and represents the largest one-year percentage increase since 1980, according to sales figures from the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission (PFBC). [...]
The omission of a regulation that has been in place for decades in this year’s digest has caused some hunters and trappers to wonder whether they still are required to display their licenses in the middle of the back as has been done for many, many years. Pennsylvania Game Commission Executive Director Carl G. Roe [...]
