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Atkinson Mills Sportsmen’s Club • Meetings — held on the first Wednesday of each month at 7:30 p.m. The club is located at 55 Sportsmen Club Lane, McVeytown; email atkinsonmillssportsmensclub@gmail.com; online at http://atkinsonmills-sportsmensclub.weebly.com. Blue Rock Sportsman Club • Club meetings — 2 p.m. on the fourth Sunday of each month on the gun range, and at 7 p.m. January and February in the barn. To east end Blue Rock: From Milroy, follow signs to Reeds Gap State Park. Free camping available and kitchen is open during all events except trap ...

Volunteer honored by PFBC for service to anglers, boaters

HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission (PFBC) is pleased to announce that Tom Hutcheson, Butler County, has been honored with the prestigious Stanley Long Outstanding Volunteer Service Award. The award recognizes Hutcheson’s 15 years of volunteer service to the PFBC, which includes his involvement in more than 70 lake and stream habitat projects in the northwest region of the Commonwealth. Throughout his service as a volunteer, Hutcheson has contributed to the construction and placement of hundreds of fish habitat structures at lakes including Presque Isle Bay, ...

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Atkinson Mills Sportsmen’s Club • Meetings — held on the first Wednesday of each month at 7:30 p.m. The club is located at 55 Sportsmen Club Lane, McVeytown; email atkinsonmillssportsmensclub@gmail.com; online at http://atkinsonmills-sportsmensclub.weebly.com. Blue Rock Sportsman Club • Club meetings — 2 p.m. on the fourth Sunday of each month on the gun range, and at 7 p.m. January and February in the barn. To east end Blue Rock: From Milroy, follow signs to Reeds Gap State Park. Free camping available and kitchen is open during all events except trap shoots. Decatur ...

4-H field day brings wildlife and forestry concepts to life

UNIVERSITY PARK — A field day event held recently by Penn State Extension gave youth 4-H members from across Pennsylvania an opportunity to explore their interest in wildlife and forestry. The “Exploratory Tract” for youth ages 7-11 included hands-on wildlife and forestry educational activities and guest speakers. The theme was “Big, Bigger and Biggest!” and featured workshops on invasive plant species, amphibians and reptiles, wildlife population dynamics, and more. The “Science Tract” offered youth ages 12-18 a chance to participate in a series of educational ...

PGC modernizes sale of antlerless licenses

HARRISBURG — A new state law, Act 148 of 2022, allows the Pennsylvania Game Commission to modernize and simplify how antlerless deer licenses are sold. The new antlerless license purchasing process allows hunters to purchase 2023-24 antlerless licenses online at HuntFishPA, or at any in-store hunting license issuing agent. New Antlerless Deer License changes announced at the Game Commission’s Board of Commissioners meeting, held April 14-15, 2023. Please ensure your contact information is correct in your online profile, at HuntFishPA. The agency will be mailing all hunting ...

Federal programs to aid endangered darter fish

By RICK STEELHAMMER The Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The candy darter, a small, brightly colored fish found in 18 small populations scattered through West Virginia’s Greenbrier, Bluestone and Gauley river watersheds, will benefit from two federal conservation initiatives announced earlier this month on the 50th anniversary of the Endangered Species Act. The candy darter was listed as an endangered species in 2018, after disappearing from half of its historic range and facing the risk of extinction from stream sedimentation, pollution, habitat fragmentation and ...