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A potential hit season - 11/15/2009
Bob Duffy prefers to avoid the large groups of hunters that often congregate to push the swamps and thick woods for bear season.

For deaf children, deer camp on target - 11/15/2009
ICONIUM, Mo. — Moments after Travis Waddell, 11, shot his first deer, he hugged his father and burst into an excited account of the hunt.

Marbled salamander proves elusive - 11/15/2009
During last year’s search for all 13 snake species in Luzerne County, Rick Koval and I found the last snake – a hognose, as the winter season was coming on – in mid-October. At that time we had some help from the employees at Nesc ...

Education grants available - 11/15/2009
HARRISBURG – The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission is encouraging local governments, community groups and sportsman’s clubs providing fishing, boating and water safety and aquatic resource education programs to apply for fundi ...

Ready for one long day - 11/15/2009
Wildlife Conservation Officer Gerald Kapral really doesn’t know what he’ll be dealing with when the first day of the rifle deer season opens on Monday, Nov. 30.

A Q&A with PGC’s Jim Delaney - 11/15/2009
As Wilkes-Barre resident Jay Delaney enters his third year as a commissioner on the Pennsylvania Game Commission board, he has grown fully aware of the success and challenges the agency faces. Delaney represents District 7, which ...

Study gauges effects of split season - 11/15/2009
Of the 31 deer outfitted with radio collars as part of a Pennsylvania Game Commission deer season study in Wildlife Management Unit 3C, one is missing.

Safety should come first - 11/15/2009
By the end of October the Pennsylvania Game Commission sold more than 747,000 general hunting licenses. As the Nov. 30 start of the rifle deer season draws near, that total will rise even more.