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Earlier this year
- On safe ice, Sugar Lake sweet for panfish, bassJust as limiting is that much of this natural, 90-acre lake is rimmed by private residences. You can fish it from a boat – that’s your best option – and t...
- Star Watch: How did our moon get there?Did you ever wonder where the Moon came from? Is it where it is by chance; is there a story to be told; or can science give us the answer? NASA tells us that ou...
- Pennsylvania’s Outdoor CalendarA look at upcoming outdoors-related events from across Pennsylvania published in the Jan. 17, 2025, edition of Pennsylvania Outdoor News. The post Pennsylvaniaâ...
- Pennsylvania Cuffs & Collars: Several plead guilty to having loaded firearms in vehicles, baitingPennsylvania cuffs and collars are field reports from Wildlife Game Wardens and Waterways Conservation Officers. These reports are from the Jan. 17, 2025, editi...
- Taste of the Wild: Charlie’s chili is a terrific choiceContributor Eileen Clarke has a friend who is a rifle maker named Charlie Sisk who originally gave her the basis of this recipe that now bears his name and cert...
- Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission is recruiting new class of officer traineesThe State Civil Service Commission will accept applications through Feb. 3. The class of trainees will undergo a comprehensive training program at various train...
- Crawford County forester wins Pennsylvania’s Aldo Leopold awardTroy Firth, of Spartansburg, has been selected as the 2024 Pennsylvania Leopold Conservation Award recipient. The $10,000 award honors farmers and forestland ow...
- Pennsylvania Letters to the Editor: ATVs on public land a bad ideaReader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Jan. 17, 2025, edition of Pennsylvania Outdoor News. The post Pennsylvania Letters to the Editor: ATVs o...
- College student gets 17th Maryland Master Angler awardDombrowski’s qualifying catches, in order, were: Bullhead catfish – 17 inches, sheepshead – 23 inches, carp – 39 inches, bluefish- 34 inches, striped ba...
- First hunter-killed bear in Pennsylvania’s Lancaster County was taken illegally, PGC saysThe first black bear known to ever have been harvested in Lancaster County, Pa., was killed illegally in Drumore Township in early December, according to the Pe...
- Commentary: Dismayed about the changing face of big-game huntingI’m not sure what happened to deer hunting and I’m also not sure I like it. I’m an old deer hunter right now, but I started deer hunting when I was 16 or ...
- WI Daily Update: Learn about fisheries management in northeast WisconsinThe Wisconsin DNR is encouraging state citizens to learn about fisheries management in northeastern Wisconsin during some upcoming public meetings. Here are the...
- Egypt Valley Wildlife Area parcels get nominated in Ohio drilling planMore than 4,300 acres – mostly in Egypt Valley Wildlife Area in Belmont County – was nominated for oil and gas drilling on Dec. 18, according to the Ohio Oi...
- Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission selling North East Marina in Lake ErieThe Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission is in talks to sell North East Marina – its beleaguered Lake Erie property – to the newly-formed North East Communit...
- Michigan hunters relatively safe in 2024Preliminary results from the 2024 hunting seasons show that hunting incidents last year fell below the 10-year average in Michigan. There were five reported wea...