Pennsylvania Game Commission to Hold State Game Land Tours for Public
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HARRISBURG, Pa., Sept. 18  /PRNewswire/ -- As part of the Pennsylvania Game Commission's efforts to highlight its ongoing habitat improvement initiatives, the public is invited to take part in upcoming tours of four State Game Lands between Sept. 23 and Oct. 15.  All tours are free.
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By Paul Muschick, The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa.  Feb. 12--Northampton County Council will be asked to approve four open space preservation projects totaling about 380 acres at a cost of about $792,000.
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Every property owner in the state should be alarmed that the New Jersey  Supreme Court decided today that government has the right to take  ownership of your land under the guise of preserving open space, whether  you want to sell it or not, according to the Builders League of South  Jersey.
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By John Myers, Duluth News-Tribune, Minn.  Sep. 12--MINNESOTA   Five federal recreation areas on northern Minnesota lakes could be managed as state parks under a proposal being negotiated by state and federal officials.   Under the plan, the U.S.
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Pennsylvania is to use mapping website Google Earth to promote state tourism, by enabling virtual Civil War trails.
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The state Department of Environmental Protection will host three public meetings to discuss proposed water quality improvement plans for the Elk, Lower Kanawha and North Branch of the Potomac watersheds.
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State and federal government officials plan to tour rain-damaged fields in eastern North Dakota and meet with farmers.  Doug Hagel, regional director of the U.S.
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By George G. Landis, Reading Eagle, Pa.  Jun. 24--The first of seven grazing walks in southeast and southcentral Pennsylvania will take place Thursday at 7 p.m. at the Masonic Homes, Elizabethtown.
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By Scott Richardson;srichardson@pantagraph.com  A preliminary look at the 2006 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting and Wildlife-Associated Recreation in the midst of Free Fishing Days in Illinois offers mixed news.
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One of my buddies had a brilliant idea I hadn't thought of: Check Pennsylvania's maps for what's called a co-op farm. It's not a commune, it's a farm which offers up it's land to the public for hunting.  What the Farmer Gets  If the hunters are decent-folk, they generally clean up the trash off the property. I personally built a blind out of rocks I happened to find in a fallow field to give me something to sit on and a hiding place. The blind is next to a power utility pole, so it gives me a great shot at birds coming in slowly to land on the wires. He got his field cleaned essentially for free since I also picked up trash. I don't want my game animals eating garbage.  The other bonus the farmer enjoys is limited crop losses to wildlife. This particular farmer was doing the soy-corn-fallow crop rotation which is pretty typical Pennsylvania crop rotation. Doves love this stuff and eat it up. Probably about 2/3rds of the doves I cleaned had corn in their crop.  What the Hunters Get  A place to hunt with a ton of acreage devoted to what essentially amounts to bait.
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By Dan Nephin  PITTSBURGH - Fish and wildlife departments around the country are on the hunt - for more wardens.  From California to Pennsylvania to Florida, states are struggling to recruit officers, and habitat and other projects are being delayed.
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By Tony Spinelli, Connecticut Post, Bridgeport  Jun. 17--EASTON -- The company that owns much of the protected woodlands in Easton would like to give hikers a chance to enjoy the great outdoors.
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GOLDEN COLORADO, Colo., Sept. 15 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Stephen L. Johnson will bring the Bush Administration's "cooperative conservation" listening tour to Pottstown, Pa., in a public meeting on Sept. 18 at 10 a.m.
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State officials are calling on the public to help them count and categorize all the plants and animals in Tennessee's 54 parks.
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Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell on Wednesday took another step toward privatizing the 531-mile
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By Arlene Mart?nez, The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa.  Mar. 12--Property owners debating whether to keep their land undeveloped forever can reap better tax benefits if they do it this year.
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By Tom Venesky, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Times Leader  Feb. 21--Winding through 21 counties in Pennsylvania, the Susquehanna River is full of economic and recreational opportunity as it makes its way into the Chesapeake Bay.