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Crisis preparation can help when you’re in an emergency

Globe Newswire PORTO, PORTUGAL — Outdoor Geek Inc. is a website devoted to equipping you for the great outdoors. They have a comprehensive catalog of blogs that cover a wide range of subjects, including hunting advice, survival guides, accessories for hiking and camping, and their new definitive Crisis Preparation page that will provide you with the necessary information to battle any crisis. Whether you want to read about the best places to hike in the gorgeous Tyrolean mountains, or are looking for food that is easy to store and is sure to last in the case of a crisis, then ...

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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. in 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 ...

Learn more about American martens

HARRISBURG — As the Pennsylvania Game Commission continues to explore the possibility of American marten reintroduction within Penn’s Woods, the agency will be providing opportunities to learn more. Having disappeared from Pennsylvania more than 120 years ago, the American marten once was a common native species that inhabited forested areas within the state. The marten, belonging to the mustelid family, is the same size as the American mink, having a similar length to a fox squirrel. Martens are true omnivores eating a large diversity of mammals, plants, insects, birds, ...

Wis. wolf plan eliminates population goal

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin wildlife officials recently released their first new wolf management plan in almost a quarter-century but the document doesn’t establish a new statewide population goal, a number that has become a flashpoint in the fight over hunting quotas. The Department of Natural Resources adopted a wolf management plan in 1999 that calls for capping the statewide population at 350 animals. As the number of wolves in Wisconsin has increased — the DNR released estimates in September showing that the population currently stands at 970 — hunters have used that ...

Deer browsing one of many factors shaping N. American forests

UNIVERSITY PARK — In a study that likely is more notable for how it was conducted than for what it found, a Penn State-led research team discovered evidence that browsing by white-tailed deer had relatively little long-term impact on two tree species in a northern forest. The research took place in both fenced and unfenced plots in a one-square-mile area in the Flambeau River State Forest, Wisconsin, which had an estimated deer density of about 18-31 deer per square mile at the beginning of the study. With seven years of data, researchers examined survival and growth of sugar maple ...

Seedling sale underway at Howard Nursery

HARRISBURG — Landowners can begin making plans to help wildlife this spring – and beyond – by planting tree and shrub seedlings offered by the Pennsylvania Game Commission’s Howard Nursery. The 2023 seedling order form is available online, and sales are underway. The Howard Nursery grows tree and shrub seedlings for use on state game lands, by participating Hunter Access cooperators, in the Seedlings for Schools program and by the Game Commission’s conservation partners. Any remaining surplus is available to Pennsylvania residents to purchase for wildlife food and cover, ...