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Outdoors

Time to start catching perch is right around the corner

After a long winter of cold temperatures and few fishing opportunities, people are itching to get on the water again. While many anglers anxiously await the opening day of trout season, others are prowling local lakes for monster perch. If you love perch, which is often considered one of ...

Reflections in Nature: Arrival of March means spring is almost here

Hopefully we all made it through the month of February. Although February is our shortest month, it appeared to me that it would never end and was happy to turn the page on the calendar to the month of March. Although many of us consider March as the start of spring, cold weather and ...

Newest game wardens join their latest ranks

HARRISBURG — Their training now complete, Pennsylvania’s newest State Game Wardens are working in their newly assigned districts. The 36th Class of the Pennsylvania Game Commission’s Ross Leffler School of Conservation graduated Feb. 1, adding 18 more officers to the ranks. Members of ...

PFBC announces first round of 2025 boating facility grants

HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission is excited to announce the first round of grants awarded in 2025 through the Boating Facility Grant Program. Through this program, the PFBC provides grants for the planning, acquisition, development, expansion, and rehabilitation of ...

Myers of the Sullivan Co. shooting team takes gold at competition

The USA Shooting men’s, women’s and junior’s National Trap Teams have been named, bringing the 2025 Trap Spring Selection Match in West Palm Beach to a close. Among those named to the2025 national junior women’s trap team included a local face in Lucy Myers of the Sullivan County ...