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’23 Pa. fishing licenses, permits and gift vouchers now on sale

HARRISBURG — Whether it’s the holiday season or next year’s fishing season already on your mind, anglers can start gearing up today by purchasing their 2023 Pennsylvania fishing license, permits, and gift vouchers. Fishing licenses, permits, and vouchers for the 2023 season can be purchased through the HuntFishPA online portal on the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission (PFBC) website (Fishandboat.com), on your smartphone using the FishBoatPA mobile app, or by visiting one of nearly 700 retail license issuing agents. 2023 licenses, permits, and vouchers purchased now are valid ...

No invasive carp eDNA detected in follow-up sampling in Presque Isle Bay

HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission (PFBC) recently announced that none of the water samples collected in Presque Isle Bay, Erie County, during Oct. 2022 by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) contained environmental DNA (eDNA) of Silver Carp or Bighead Carp. The tests were conducted at the request of the PFBC after the USFWS reported in July that Silver Carp eDNA had been detected in a single water sample collected in the bay this past spring. The USFWS recommended waiting to conduct follow-up testing until fall 2022, when more favorable environmental ...

Enter your deer photo in Sentinel contest

It’s time to enter The Sentinel’s “Show Us Your Deer” contest. Hunters no longer need to bring their deer to The Sentinel to enter our contest. The “Show Us Your Deer” contest does not have a measurement requirement nor do we require hunters to bring their kill to us. Hunters can simply upload a photo of either a harvested buck or doe to our website with a brief description. All entries submitted will be eligible for a drawing for some great prizes, including a $150 gift certificate from Dan Pierce Outdoor Shop in Lewistown. Photos should be of a deer taken in the 2022 ...

Outdoors Calendar

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 ...

Enjoy your stay

Metro Millions of people enjoy camping every year. Data from the KOA 2021 North American Camping Report indicates there were more than 94.5 million camper households throughout North America in 2020. As the world confronted the COVID-19 pandemic, North American campers took to camping in droves and intended to continue camping trips throughout 2021. While there are many different lessons novice campers must learn, one of the more important should include identifying what makes a good campsite. The choice of campsite is an important part of the camping experience. In fact, where a ...

Helping the Chesapeake from way upstream

WESTOVER, Va. (AP) — The Atlantic eel that Ken Slazyk pulled from the pot in the James River, 8 miles downstream from Hopewell, was a green, 18-inch-long juvenile that had, in one of the greatest mysteries of modern biology, swum up the river where its parents had spent their early days, fattening on the James’ baby crabs, tiny shiners and insects. So this eel could, like its mother, turn gray and white, grow as thick as Slazyk’s forearm and swim out to the mid-Atlantic’s wide Sargasso Sea, mate and, in the spring, see its tiny “elvers” or glass eels, make their way back to ...