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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 ...

Worries over wind farms cloud condor repopulation program

SIERRA PAILEMAN, Argentina — It was a sunny morning when about 200 people trudged up a hill in Argentina’s southern Patagonia region with a singular mission: free two Andean condors that had been born in captivity. While members of the Mapuche, the largest Indigenous group in the area, ...

Woods heat up heading into fall rifle season

Hunters encouraged to visit focus areas The Pennsylvania Game Commission is encouraging hunters heading afield to visit deer hunter focus areas on state game lands where habitat projects are creating new forest growth and hunter access has increased. Forest habitat management efforts in these areas have been known to attract deer. Share extra venison and help the community The Pennsylvania Game Commission is a proud partner and supporter of Hunters Sharing the Harvest. Through HSH, hunters can simply donate venison by taking their deer to a participating processor. Thanks to the ...

New Zealand mudsnail response plan activated at two state fish hatcheries

HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission (PFBC) has announced that the Benner Spring and Pleasant Gap State Fish Hatcheries (SFHs), both located in Centre County, are operating under a special response plan following the detection of invasive New Zealand Mudsnails on hatchery premises. During a scheduled staff training at Benner Spring SFH on May 31, New Zealand Mudsnails were detected within water supply plumbing inside a hatchery building. It is important to note that while this is the first detection of New Zealand Mudsnails in a PFBC hatchery, these snails are known ...

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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 shoots. Decatur ...

Marine sets his sights on world archery championship

NESHANNOCK (AP) — Archery season for deer is under way in Pennsylvania, but Major Eric Burkett has his eye on a different kind of target. Burkett — a Marine Corps veteran, wounded warrior and bow and arrow sharpshooter — is going for the gold medal at the third Pan Am Archery ...