Pennsylvania Mixed Bag: New game warden in Sullivan County – Outdoor News
Harrisburg — Drew Poleshuk was recently commissioned as a Pennsylvania state game warden after 44 weeks of intensive training and assigned as the district game warden for Sullivan County. He was a member of the 36th Cadet Class of the Game Commission’s Ross Leffler School of Conservation.
Poleshuk, a native of Palmyra, Lebanon County, is a graduate of Palmyra Area High School and earned his bachelor’s degree in criminology from Penn State.
State game wardens are responsible for administering a wide variety of Game Commission programs within an assigned district of about 350 square miles, including law enforcement, responding to wildlife conflicts, conservation education.
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Boone & Crockett’s 32nd Big Game Awards
Missoula, Mont. — The Boone and Crockett Club will hold its 32nd Big Game Awards, a triennial event celebrating the pinnacle of fair chase hunting and the conservation of North America’s big game species, July 24-26.
Hosted by Bass Pro Shops, the event will be held at Johnny Morris’ Wonders of Wildlife National Museum & Aquarium in Springfield, Missouri. The 32nd Big Game Awards will recognize the most impressive heads, horns, and antlers accepted into the Boone and Crockett Club’s record book over the past three years.
The Boone and Crockett Club has been measuring the antlers, horns and skulls of North American big game since 1895. The organization’s Records of North American Big Game was first published in 1932 and is now in its 15th edition.
PGC Supports Sunday Hunting Bill
Harrisburg — Legislation that could fully repeal Pennsylvania’s Sunday hunting ban, recently reintroduced in Harrisburg, has the full support of the Pennsylvania Game Commission.
Sen. Dan Laughlin, R-Erie, in early March reintroduced Senate Bill 67, which would end the state’s prohibition on Sunday hunting and allow the commission to include Sundays when establishing hunting seasons annually.
The bill, which passed the Senate and gained preliminary approval in the House of Representatives before time ran out in the legislative session, now has a fresh start, according to Steve Smith, commission executive director, with a broad base of support behind it.
Many sportsmen’s groups back the initiative, he noted, as well as the Pennsylvania Farm Bureau. The commission looks forward to working with this coalition to get the bill across the finish line, he said, an outcome that would benefit hunters and help ensure the future of wildlife management.
Next ‘Listening’ Stop is in Hughesville
Altoona, Pa. — Rep. Dave Maloney, R-Berks County, minority chair of the House Game and Fisheries Committee, will host his next Sportsmen’s Listening Tour stop at 6 p.m. on April 16 at Hughesville Volunteer Fire Department, 30 S. Railroad St., Hughesville.
The events, according to Maloney, are “a series of strategically placed live forums to acknowledge the issues that Pennsylvania sportsmen and women are facing.”
Maloney’s first tour event was held in New Holland, Lancaster County. His second event was held in Sigel, Jefferson County.
Bird Dog Training Clinic Offered by RGS
Johnsonburg, Pa. — The Ruffed Grouse Society Upland Bird Hunt Chapter recently announced it will offer an individual, one-on-one, bird dog training clinic on Saturday, May 17, at the Rolfe Beagle Club here.
This training clinic is for new bird dog handlers or experienced bird dog handlers who want additional help with training his or her dog. An extension of the Upland Bird Hunt Chapter’s popular Future Hunter and Handlers’ Clinic, this class will be called Train the Trainer Clinic.
All dogs must be of a pointing breed. Dogs must be registered in advance. Registered dogs must be eight months old as of mid-May. Register with Bethany Ford at [email protected] or by mail at the Rolfe Beagle Club, 1016 Long Level Road, Johnsonburg, PA, 15845.
New AMD Facility Opened on Blacklick Creek
Vintondale, Pa. — State officials recently celebrated the grand opening of the Blacklick Treatment Facility here, the newest Abandoned Mine Drainage Treatment Facility during an open house event.
Community members and elected officials toured the facility and learned how it will eliminate uncontrolled discharges of untreated mine water into Blacklick Creek. The new facility will improve roughly 25 stream miles in the Blacklick Creek and Conemaugh River in Indiana and Cambria counties.
The facility will control and treat three major sources (Commercial No. 16, Vinton No. 6 and Wehrum mines) of abandoned mine drainage into the Blacklick Creek Watershed.
Blacklick Creek has been on the Department of Environmental Protection’s impaired waters list since its inception in 2006, impaired by mine drainage, which caused unbalanced pH and high levels of iron, aluminum, and manganese.
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