John Zaktansky | The Daily Item Aug. 30, 2019 Chronic wasting meeting: Second CWD-positive deer leads to more permits, discussion At 5:35 p.m. Monday — just five minutes after the doors opened at Beavertown’s Rescue Hose Company for a 6 p.m. workshop on the threat of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in the Valley’s deer herd […]

CWD RULES AFFECT OUT-OF-STATE HUNTERS Pennsylvanians who harvest deer, elk, mule deer or moose out-of-state likely can’t bring them home without first removing the carcass parts with the highest risk of transmitting chronic wasting disease (CWD). Pennsylvania long has prohibited the importation of high-risk cervid parts from areas where CWD has been detected. This prohibition […]

Randy is the director of marketing and communications for Ernst Conservation Seeds in Meadville, Pa. Ernst Seeds is the largest native seed producer in the eastern United States, and has been a supporting member of POWA (PA Outdoor Writers’ Association) since 2013. Randy also serves as the Mercer and Crawford County coordinator for Hunters Sharing […]

The Pennsylvania Board of Game Commissioners today voted to increase the agency’s monetary donation to Hunters Sharing the Harvest, ensuring that hunters can continue to donate venison to the state’s hungry without having to pay deer-processing costs. The board unanimously approved increasing to $55,000 the Game Commission’s 2019 donation to Hunters Sharing the Harvest. The […]

GAME COMMISSION RELEASES DEER HARVEST REPORT Overall harvest largest since 2004-05 license year. Pennsylvania hunters posted their highest overall deer harvest in 14 years when they took 374,690 deer during the state’s 2018-19 hunting seasons, which closed in January, the Pennsylvania Game Commission reported today. The 2018-19 deer harvest topped the previous year’s harvest of […]

CWD DISEASE MANAGEMENT AREA TO EXPAND INTO ELK RANGE Diseased animal detected at captive deer farm in Clearfield County will require DMA 3 expansion. A captive deer that has tested positive for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) will require Disease Management Area 3 (DMA 3) to expand into Pennsylvania’s elk range. The exact adjusted boundary of […]