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Hunting licenses go on sale starting on June 22

From staff reports With expanded Sunday hunting for big game and an archery deer season that reaches deeper than ever into the whitetail rut, 2020 is sure to be a historic year for hunting in Pennsylvania. And seizing those opportunities is only a license purchase away. Licenses for the 2020-21 hunting and furtaking seasons go on sale Monday, June 22. General hunting licenses and furtaker licenses each continue to cost $20.90 for Pennsylvania residents and $101.90 for nonresidents. Resident senior hunters and furtakers, ages 65 and older, can purchase one-year licenses for ...

Understanding how fish can perceive an angler’s lure

SCRANTON (AP) —As soon as the loop flashes into your peripheral vision, you know you may have just stumbled into perfection. The hum of the line racing through the guides sends a vibration down the pole and through your arms that electrifies every vain in your body right down to your toes. Your fly lands without even the hint of a ripple. It has all finally come together, you have reached Zen. Before you have time to congratulate yourself, however, a watery explosion causes your line to go tight and the entire process is reversed. It becomes a dizzy swirl of strip, strip, keeping ...

Videos of eagle family getting more views during pandemic

GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Outside Kirby Wynn’s home in Glenwood Springs, a bald eagle battles a pair of ravens mid-flight for the prized and still dripping-wet trout clutched in the majestic raptor’s talons. Shaking off the scavengers, the eagle glides into its nest resting atop the dead branches of a tree overlooking the Roaring Fork Valley, where two hungry eaglets — not yet sporting the iconic white bald head of their parents — gleefully bounce in anticipation of the incoming feast. “I’ve seen this more than once,” Wynn, 50, casually quipped. “Sometimes, ...

Number of hunters on decline in Michigan and nationwide

ALPENA, Mich. (AP) — Hunting keeps Alpena County resident Allen Shaw connected to family, as well as the great outdoors. Shaw has been hunting for the last 16 years and remembers hunting with his father and grandfather. Throughout the years, Shaw has hunted deer, bear, turkey, and small game. But, Shaw said, for him, a successful hunt isn't necessarily one where an animal has been harvested. It's more about time spent with his family. "My favorite part about hunting is family time," Shaw told The Alpena News. "Before I was old enough to actually hunt, I remember hanging out with ...

Funds to build new Colorado state park in limbo

DENVER (AP) — The deal went down on a picnic table in Broomfield on April 1. “The quietest acquisition of a $25 million property no one ever heard of,” GOCO boss Chris Castilian said. With a notary public standing 6 feet away, a flurry of signatures transferred southern Colorado’s 30 square-mile Fishers Peak to the state of Colorado. The undeveloped, wildlife-rich parcel is set to become Colorado’s 42nd state park. But while the acquisition is complete — the deal was formally announced earlier this month— funding for the development of the park remains in limbo as ...

Region office, shooting ranges to open in new counties falling in ‘yellow’ phase

From staff reports The Pennsylvania Game Commission announced Wednesday that it will reopen to the public its Southwest Region Office, and reopen shooting ranges on additional state game lands in counties to be upgraded to the yellow phase in the state’s three-phase matrix to ease COVID-19 restrictions on Friday, May 15. Those counties include: Allegheny, Armstrong, Bedford, Blair, Butler, Cambria, Fayette, Fulton, Greene, Indiana, Somerset, Washington and Westmoreland. Within those counties, any rifle, shotgun, pistol and archery ranges on state game lands will be reopened ...