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Pennsylvania's two-week firearms deer season opens on the traditional date - the Monday after Thanksgiving - with area businesses hoping to see signs that the tide is turning. Due to a reduction in the region's deer herd and changing hunting habits, there has been a reduction in the number of people coming to the northcentral counties for deer season. More ... Jim Macurak of Karns City, Butler County, shot this massive 7x6 bull on the opening morning of the 2008 Pennsylvania elk hunt. He was hunting in the Moshannon State Forest when the bull approached just after daylight. Photo courtesy of Mark Nale More ... The Pennsylvania Game Commission counts on hunters to provide information on the deer they harvest. If all hunters who harvested a deer would send in their harvest report cards, as required by law, harvest estimates wouldn't be needed. But it hasn't been working out that way for some time. More ... Bear season in Pennsylvania is no small event. In many parts of the region, the number of hunters in the woods this Monday will surpass even that of the deer season opener. It should be an exciting season. Some massive bears have been shot in the state the past few years. A few have even topped the scales at 800 pounds. More ... Many of the state's furbearer trapping seasons are underway. General trapping season for foxes and raccoons continues through Feb. 22. The season for mink and muskrats opens on Saturday and closes on to Jan. 11. Beavers may be trapped from Dec. 26 to March 31. Coyotes, opossums, skunks and weasels are legal year-'round. More ... Sinnemahoning Sportsmen's Association will soon be announcing policies for its winter wildlife feeding program. The program is one of the area's most successful and popular, providing corn to dozens of landowners in souther Cameron and Potter counties. More ... |
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