HARRISBURG, PA – The Pennsylvania Game Commission has made changes to the state’s Chronic Wasting Disease Management Areas (DMAs) including the creation of a new DMA, the expansion of an existing DMA, and reduction of an existing DMA. The new DMA 8 was created as a response to two recent CWD detections in road-killed deer in […]
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HARRISBURG, PA – The Pennsylvania Game Commission has closed the shooting range on State Game Lands 43 in relation to the ongoing manhunt for fugitive Danelo Cavalcante, who escaped Chester County Prison Aug. 31, and more recently was learned to be armed and in the area of the game lands. Aside from the shooting range, State […]
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HARRISBURG, PA – Protecting Pennsylvania’s deer and elk from Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) remains a priority, now as ever. That hasn’t changed. But the rules for hunters who harvest those or any other cervids outside of Pennsylvania or within parts of it have. Previously, hunters were prohibited from bringing “high-risk” carcass parts from such animals taken […]
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HARRISBURG, PA – Want to learn more about wildlife conservation, the habitat work and hunting opportunities available on state game lands or the important role state game wardens play in protecting Pennsylvania’s wildlife? Here’s your chance. The Pennsylvania Game Commission is hosting a series of town hall meetings, providing three opportunities to engage with those representing […]
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HARRISBURG, PA – The opportunity Pennsylvania hunters have waited out winter for is about to get underway. Pennsylvania’s spring turkey season kicks off Saturday, April 24 with a one-day youth hunt open to junior license holders and mentored hunters under 16 years old. Then, on Saturday, May 1, the statewide spring gobbler season opens and runs […]
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Released: 04/02/2021 HARRISBURG, PA – Pennsylvania hunters followed up 2019-20 hunting seasons’ highest overall deer harvest in 15 years by topping it when they took an estimated 435,180 deer in the 2020-21 hunting seasons, which closed in January, the Pennsylvania Game Commission reported today. The 2020-21 estimated deer harvest topped the previous license year’s harvest of […]
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HARRISBURG, PA – The National Deer Association, in conjunction with the Pennsylvania Game Commission and Wildlife Futures Program, is holding a series of meetings to update and inform the public on Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD), a disease that always is fatal to the deer and elk it infects. All meetings will be held virtually through Zoom. […]
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HARRISBURG, PA – In an effort to protect wildlife habitat, the Pennsylvania Game Commission plans to spray more than 50,000 acres of state game lands this spring. Spraying will occur on 25 different state game lands – 50,125 acres in all – and will begin as soon as leaf-out occurs and gypsy moth egg masses hatch, […]
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