Vincent Hancock is a World Champion in International Skeet and has won gold in the last two Olympics, setting numerous records all along the way. Hancock spends a lot of time traveling around the country training potential athletes who want to be better.More >>
This is the time of year when homeowners are spending a lot of time and effort cleaning up their yards and spreading mulch around trees, shrubs and gardens. The old leaves, broken trees and damaged and clipped shrubbery need to be cleared away and the mulch brought in and spread. This can lead to considerable cost as well as a burden on the environment. Well, many municipalities have come to the aid of their residents and are recycling leaves and yard waste and turning it into mulch.More >>
The Pennsylvania Game Commission has predicted a banner year for spring turkey hunting. Populations are high so this just may be the year you finally connect on that big old boss gobbler. On the other hand, you may be a novice turkey hunter and are overwhelmed with everything you need to know. Scouting, calling, decoys, camo, shotguns and loads - where do you start? Well, the Commission has instituted a new, advance hunter education course especially for you.More >>
The world of the Olympics and World competition has come to Pennsylvania. The newly opened Keystone Shooting Park in Dalmatia, Northumberland County is home to a world-class training facility specifically designed for world class skeet and trap shooters to hone their skills.More >>
You just can't beat the thrill of having a trophy bass explode out of the water and smack a lure. but finding the right topwater stuff can be a problem. So what does the creative angler do? Make your own.More >>
Have you checked the prices on fishing lures lately? Talk about sticker shock. If you are a serious fisherman, spending a lot of time on the water, you've been spending a lot of money keeping your tackle boxes full of quality tackle.More >>
Spring is here, warmer weather is here to stay and we will all be spending a lot more time outdoors. Trout season and turkey season both mean more people in the woods. Unfortunately, the arrival of spring also means the worst time for wildfires in Pennsylvania.More >>
The mighty Susquehanna is the major tributary to the Chesapeake Bay and affects millions of folks along its entire length. Thanks to the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, the problems associated with the river will not be pushed aside and forgotten.More >>
The remarkable recovery of the eastern bluebird is one of the country's most amazing birding success stories. From the 1920's to the 1970's, bluebird populations plummeted due to loss of habitat and food, and an increase in predators. But people responded and their numbers have proliferated.More >>
Recently the Ned Smith Center for Nature and Art in Millersburg renamed their new art gallery, now known as the Ned Smith Gallery Presented by the Pennsylvania Game Commission. One wall of the gallery will be reserved for a rotating display of the extensive collection of artwork amassed by the commission and stored or exhibited in the commission's building and seen by relatively few outside the agency.More >>
The mission of the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission is to protect, conserve, and enhance the Commonwealth's aquatic resources and provide fishing and boating opportunities.More >>
For more than 100 years, the Game Commission has managed the Commonwealth's wildlife resources for all Pennsylvanians. With the help of more than 700 full-time employees and thousands of part-timers and volunteers, the agency provides a host of benefits to wildlife, state residents and visitors.More >>
Seedlings For Schools is coordinated by the Pennsylvania Game Commission's Howard Nursery, Bureau of Wildlife Habitat Management and the Division of Conservation Education, Bureau of Information and Education.More >>
The Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area, located on the Lebanon-Lancaster County line about one mile south of Kleinfletersville, is a special tract owned and set aside by the Pennsylvania Game Commission for the protection, propagation, management, preservation and controlled harvest of wildlife.More >>
Hunters Sharing The Harvest is Pennsylvania's charitable venison donation program for hunters who share their extra venison via a statewide network of participating butchers to Food Banks across Pennsylvania.More >>
Very few wildlife experiences are more exciting than the sight of a Golden Eagle cruising south over a landscape cloaked in late autumn browns, yellows, and reds. And there is no better place in Pennsylvania to see this sight than the rock outcrop at Waggoner's Gap Hawk WatchMore >>
The Ned Smith Center for Nature and Art was founded in 1993 to celebrate the life and works of its namesake, the nationally recognized wildlife artist, naturalist and writer Ned Smith.More >>
