Pennsylvania Game Commission officials are urging wildlife enthusiasts to join the tens of thousands of volunteers throughout the United States in the Audubon Society’s 110th Annual Christmas Bird Count (CBC), which will take place Dec. 14, through Jan. 5. “Bird enthusiasts, armed with binoculars, bird guides and checklists, will head out on an annual mission [...]
Image via Wikipedia AKRON, OH – Nuisance beaver populations at several of its reservoirs has prompted the Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District (MWCD) to conduct a public drawing for beaver trapping permits this season in cooperation with the ODNR Division of Wildlife. The MWCD will grant a limited number of permits to selected trappers whose names [...]
Image via Wikipedia COLUMBUS, OH – The Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) is accepting grant proposals for community programs that will improve local environments through litter prevention, beautification and waste reduction. The ODNR Division of Recycling and Litter Prevention will grant competitive awards up to $2,000 to support litter clean-up activities that involve the [...]
Harrisburg, PA — The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission (PFBC) today announced that state and federal agencies have successfully reached a $21 million settlement over environmental damages stemming from a Superfund site in Northeast Pennsylvania’s Carbon, Lehigh and Northampton counties. “While this settlement is the largest natural resource damage settlement to date in Pennsylvania, it [...]
Image via Wikipedia HARRISBURG – Pennsylvania Game Commission Executive Director Carl G. Roe today announced that visitors to the agency’s more than 1.4 million acres of State Game Lands will start seeing a new crop of signs designed to educate the public about four of the primary methods of habitat improvement used to benefit wildlife. [...]
