Pennsylvania’s deer-transport regulations from CWD areas present unknowns
If the proposal is granted final approval in April, it would allow hunters within disease management areas or established areas to take a deer killed there to any processor in the state – if that processor is on a list approved by the Game Commission.
But reading the proposal, some questions make themselves evident.
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Chesapeake Bay, farmers, anglers, workers need Agricultural Conservation Assistance Program
A responsible parent continues to monitor and care about their child’s wellbeing, even after that offspring leaves home. Which is why we should feel deep concern about the 2022 State of the Bay Report compiled by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation.
What does it mean to be a “sportsman” in today’s outdoors?
Fewer voices are calling for “sportsmanlike” behavior these days – whatever, exactly, it means. There’s less emphasis on how to “be” outdoors, and more stress on results – the biggest fish, the greatest score, the quickest limit.
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Keep wildlife in Pittman-Robertson funding
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, commonly known as Pittman-Robertson. The Pennsylvania Game Commission also makes available shooting ranges on game lands across the state. Pennsylvania
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Pennsylvania deer opener politics a bad precedent
The opening day of deer season dilemma – Saturday or Monday – is a tough issue. You can certainly understand the “camp-life disruption” argument made by those who favor a Monday opener.
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Warm, wet, and wondering
If you are a deer hunter of some advancing years, it’s difficult to dodge the perception that our weather in late November and early December, is now persistently different than it was earlier in our lives.
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Safe public shooting ranges benefit from Pittman-Robertson funds
An enjoyable chore came my way recently while visiting our son. For the past two years, his work and the COVID pandemic prevented him returning home to hunt deer. This year, so far, all those variables lined up in our favor, and we’re planning to hunt here together, as we enjoyed before he accepted work
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