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HARRISBURG, Pa., April 24, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Pennsylvania Board of Game Commissioners today gave final approval to hunting and trapping seasons and bag limits for 2012-13, including a move to allow Mentored Youth Hunting Program participants to take part in fall turkey seasons and establishing antlerless deer license allocations. Other changes include expanded bear hunting opportunities in urban/suburban Wildlife Management Units (WMUs); the extension of the fall...
In the news release, Game Commissioners Propose 2012-13 Seasons and Bag Limits, issued 24-Jan-2012 by Pennsylvania Game Commission over PR Newswire, we are advised by the organization that the fourth article, fifth paragraph, first sentence, should read "and a concurrent bear/deer season in WMUs 3D, 4C, 4D, and 4E, on Nov. 28-Dec. 1" rather than "and a concurrent bear/deer season in WMUs 3D, 4C, 4D, 4E, 5B and 5C on Nov. 26-Dec. 1" as originally issued inadvertently. In the fourth article,...
HARRISBURG, Pa., Jan. 24, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --The Pennsylvania Board of Game Commissioners today gave preliminary approval to hunting and trapping seasons and bag limits for 2012-13, including a move to allow Mentored Youth Hunting Program participants to take part in fall turkey seasons. Other changes include expanded bear hunting opportunities in urban/suburban Wildlife Management Units (WMUs); additional small game season dates prior to Christmas; the addition of WMU...
HARRISBURG, Pa., Jan. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Sportsmen's organizations with approved propagation facilities can augment local ring-necked pheasant stockings and increase localized hunting opportunities by raising day?old pheasant chicks supplied free-of-charge by the Pennsylvania Game Commission. Information and applications to participate can be downloaded from the agency's website (www.pgc.state.pa.us), by putting your cursor over "Hunt/Trap" in the menu bar at the...
Bad News: flooding at two game farms reduced allocation by nearly 31,000 pheasants and late season stockings have been eliminated; Good News: production goal for 2012 remains at 200,000 birds HARRISBURG, Pa., Sept. 26, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Saying there is bad news and good news for the future of pheasant hunting, Pennsylvania Game Commission officials today announced that hunters still should expect to see the agency's pheasant stocking efforts increase to 200,000 birds for the...
Two Game Farm tours cancelled and up to 40,000 pheasants lost or escaped due to flooding; Tours cancelled for State Game Lands in Bradford and Dauphin/Lebanon counties HARRISBURG, Pa., Sept. 12, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Pennsylvania Game Commission Executive Director Carl G. Roe today announced the agency has rescheduled its public drawing to award 56 elk licenses for the 2011 elk hunt for 1 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 14, in the agency's Harrisburg headquarters, 2001 Elmerton Ave.,...
HARRISBURG, Pa., Sept. 1, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- For the first time since 2004, the Pennsylvania Game Commission will offer public tours of its four game farms. Guided tours are scheduled to begin at noon and conclude by 3 p.m., rain or shine, at the game farms in Armstrong, Crawford and Lycoming (two farms) counties on Sept. 25 and Oct. 2. "The tours are designed to provide the public an opportunity to learn more about the Game Commission's game farms and our pheasant propagation...
HARRISBURG, Pa., April 12, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Pennsylvania Board of Game Commissioners today gave final approval to hunting and trapping seasons and bag limits for 2011-12, including big and small game seasons and furbearer seasons. The Board also adopted antlerless deer license allocations for the 22 Wildlife Management Units, and are listed in the article below. For those unable to view the webcasts, a three-part "on-demand" video recording of the staff reports from...
HARRISBURG, Pa., Sept. 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Pennsylvania Game Commission has slated 108,000 ring-necked pheasants for release on public lands throughout the Commonwealth for the upcoming small game hunting seasons, including 16,800 birds for the junior only season (Oct. 9-16). "Based on agency's budget cuts first implemented in the 2004-05 fiscal year and carried forward since, we reduced our pheasant propagation program by 50 percent," said Carl G. Roe, Game Commission...
July 31 deadline established for those applying for pheasants HARRISBURG, Pa., June 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- While Pennsylvania's junior pheasant hunt seems like a long way off, Pennsylvania Game Commission Executive Director Carl G. Roe noted that now is the time for hunting clubs to make plans to host an organized junior pheasant hunt. "The future of hunting is directly related to the continuing participation of young Pennsylvanians," Roe noted. "The goal is to successfully compete...
