Chronic Wasting Disease Management Areas, DMAP units, CWD collection bins identified. The deer hunters who most consistently fill tags year to year know their woods. They know what food sources are available and where they are, they know the location of whitetail bedding areas, they know the travel routes deer use to go from one […]

The Pennsylvania Game Commission has a new plan for battling what many consider the biggest wildlife-management challenge of the 21st century. And it’s counting on hunters to help put it into action. Acting at its quarterly meeting today, the agency’s Board of Commissioners unanimously adopted a new Chronic Wasting Disease Response Plan. It focuses on […]

Steve Ferris, Eagle Staff Writer, Butler Eagle Hunters Sharing the Harvest (HSH) distributed 900 pounds of ground venison and 50 turkeys Monday to county food banks and churches that provide meals to those in need. The venison, which comes from deer harvested during municipal deer reduction programs approved by the Pennsylvania Game Commission, is one […]

Towanda Daily Review on 05-03-2020 The number of hunters in Pennsylvania donating their venison to help feed families in need pushed Hunters Sharing the Harvest into record territory for the 2019-20 campaign. Much of the more than 155,000 pounds of ground deer meat they collected is delivered to food banks in the Endless Mountains like […]

At one of the last such events likely to happen for the foreseeable future, and just prior to the Corona virus pandemic reinventing our lives, hunters, U.S. Senate staff, the state Secretary of Agriculture, news media, food bank representatives, Game Commission staff, and a Pittsburgh Steeler gathered on March 12 to recognize another successful season […]

Hunters share harvest to help feed hungry Butler Eagle | March 13, 2020 Butler County’s regional coordinator for Hunters Sharing the Harvest attended an event Thursday that praised the program’s partners and celebrated its success. “The first celebrity I saw today was (state) Secretary of Agriculture Russell Redding.” said Center Township resident Tom Rossman, the […]