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NWTF chapter supports conservation locally

Did you ever wonder what comes from the organizations that the local community supports? I would like to tell readers where they can actually go and see the results — in this case, the work done by the Shade Mountain Chapter of the National Wild Tutkey Federation, which serves Mifflin and Juniata counties. Conservation is very important to the National Wild Turkey Federation (NWTF) and should be at least a concern of many others. The NWTF’s mission statement is, “The conservation of the wild turkey and the preservation of our hunting heritage.” Conservation work, while ...

Eagle Cam should produce another exciting season

Pennsylvania Game Commission executive director Bryan Burhans sounds like a proud father, or perhaps grandfather, when he talks about the return of the agency’s Eagle Cam mounted in a nest at Codorus State Park near Hanover in York County. Eagle Cam is the online service that provides ...

Migration allows study of owls

CHICAGO (AP) — Scott Judd trained his camera lens on the white dot in the distance. As he moved up the Lake Michigan shoreline, the speck on a breakwater came into view and took his breath away: it was a snowy owl, thousands of miles from its Arctic home. “It was an amazing sight,” said Judd, a Chicago IT consultant. “It’s almost like they’re from another world. They captivate people in a way that other birds don’t.” The large white raptors have descended on the Great Lakes region and northeastern U.S. in huge numbers in recent weeks, hanging out at airports, in farm ...

Eagle Cam should produce another exciting season

Pennsylvania Game Commission executive director Bryan Burhans sounds like a proud father, or perhaps grandfather, when he talks about the return of the agency’s Eagle Cam mounted in a nest at Codorus State Park near Hanover in York County. Eagle Cam is the online service that provides worldwide access 24/7 access of the activities in the nest until vacated in the spring. To view Eagle Cam go to the PGC website at www.pgc.pa.gov and click the “Hanover Bald Eagle Live Stream” link. Twitter and Facebook users also can share the Eagle Cam with friends by tweeting ...

Forest lands imperiled as aging owners divide, sell

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Many trees in Gary Hague’s Wyoming County forest sprouted before he was born. Others were planted with his own rough hands. A memory seeded in the summer twilight a half-century ago grows there, too. The deed says 99 acres “more or less,” but it felt even bigger when Hague was 14 and his Uncle George said they needed to walk it. They left the clapboard farmhouse at dusk, mostly silent aside from waking insects, and followed the boundary lines in the long shadows. When George Hague died in 1973, an attorney told his nephew the land was his. “I think he ...

Deep freeze draws ice fishermen out in elements

CLARK (AP) — A small cluster of ice huts stood alone as the wind swept over the ice covering the Shenango River Lake on a recent afternoon. But spirits inside the huts were warm despite the winds and cold temperatures. Brothers Dan and Billy Inches, of Aliquippa, had individual tents next ...