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HARRISBURG, Pa., Aug. 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Pennsylvania state parks will allow Canada goose hunting when the state's early Canada geese season opens Tuesday, Sept. 1. The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources noted many state parks will accommodate hunters during the statewide season, which runs through Friday, Sept. 25, and is designed to reduce local nuisance geese populations. Hunters should contact individual park offices for local starting dates and other details....

HARRISBURG, Pa., July 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Hunters will see similar dove and early Canada goose seasons and bag limits, both of which open Sept. 1, as part of Pennsylvania's 2009-10 migratory bird seasons announced today by Pennsylvania Game Commission Executive Director Carl G. Roe. Dove hunters, once again, will have the opportunity to participate in a triple-split season. During the first season (Sept. 1-26), hunting will start at noon and close at sunset daily. The second and...

HARRISBURG, Pa., July 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Representatives of the waterfowl organizations, interested hunters and the public are invited to attend a briefing on Friday, Aug. 7, sponsored by the Pennsylvania Game Commission, on the status of Atlantic Flyway waterfowl populations and proposed preliminary federal frameworks for the 2009-10 waterfowl hunting seasons. The briefing will begin at 1 p.m., in the Stull Environmental Education Center at Presque Isle State Park, Erie County....

Authorities in New York say a Long Island duck hunter was charged after accidentally shooting his partner in the arm. Ricardo Carter, 50, of Brentwood and the unidentified victim were tracking ducks Saturday from their hay-covered boat near Point Lookout when Carter's gun allegedly discharged, the New York Post reported Sunday. The injured duck hunter was expected to recover after being treated at Nassau University Medical Center, the Post reported. Carter was charged with assault and...

After years of gathering dead carcasses of Pacific Coast trumpeter swans, and examining their lead-poisoned livers, wildlife biologist Mike Smith became convinced the only way to save the birds was by hazing them.So he kept vigil with a night-vision scope, a laser and a noisemaker in a makeshift watchtower behind Judson Lake, on a mission to scare the swans away.   Smith believes the lake, with its bottom full of shotgun pellets that have killed hundreds of the birds, is the likely...

HARRISBURG, Pa., Oct. 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Most Pennsylvania state parks are now open for the extended Canada goose hunting season. An exception is the southeast section of the state, within the Atlantic Population Zone, which will be open to hunting starting Nov. 15. Hunters should contact individual park offices for specific information since the season will open and close intermittently through February and some parks are closed to hunting. A significant growth in the...

Rhode Island is home to between 2,300 and 2,500 species of fungi, says Noel Rowe, leader of a mushroom walk organized by the Rhode Island Wild Plant Society this week. Twenty-nine mushroom hunters traipsed through the woods of the Nettie Marie Jones Nature Preserve with Rowe searching for as many species as they could gather for identification. In less than two hours, they found dozens of species in the West Greenwich woods. Some of the people on the walk were interested in the botany of...

By BRIANGEHRING Greenwings Day is scheduled from 1 to 4:30 p.m. Aug. 31 at Audubon National Wildlife Refuge near Coleharbor. The Greenwings event features activities that teach youth and their families about wildlife conservation and outdoor skills associated with hunting and fishing. Four field demonstrations are planned: * Target shoot: Participants learn safe firearm handling techniques and get supervised shooting practice, using CO2 pistols and air rifles. * Waterfowling:...

By Candus Thomson, The Baltimore Sun Aug. 3--Four thoughts about the meeting last week in Annapolis on new yellow perch fishing regulations, then I promise to let it go. 1.) Eight thousand pounds of fish. Were we really having a serious, adult conversation about 8,000pounds of fish? That's what watermen reported catching this spring in their truncated season. The state estimates that no more than 40 watermen take part in the harvest. Forty into 8,000 is 200 pounds. What kind of a...

Millions of pounds of lead used in hunting, fishing and shooting sports wind up in the environment each year and can threaten or kill wildlife, according to a new scientific report.Lead is a metal with no known beneficial role in biological systems, and its use in gasoline, paint, pesticides, and solder in food cans has nearly been eliminated. Although lead shot was banned for waterfowl hunting in 1991, its use in ammunition for upland hunting, shooting sports, and in fishing tackle remains...