Buckmasters News
2023 CRP signup open through April 7
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is accepting applications for its voluntary Conservation Reserve Program. Private landowners can apply at their local USDA...
Pennsylvania sees small increase in 2015-16 deer harvest
Pennsylvania hunters harvested an estimated 315,813 deer during the 2015-16 seasons, about 4 percent more than the 2014-15 harvest of 303,973.
The 137,580...
Deer harvest numbers down 13% for 21-22 season
Hunters harvested an estimated 376,810 white-tailed deer, according to Pennsylvania Game Commission results reported for 2021-22 deer season which ended in...
Fall turkey season opens Oct. 29
Fall turkey season, an annual opportunity to pursue the state’s only big-game bird among the changing colors of the autumn woods, kicks off Oct. 29 in 19 of...
2022-23 hunting licenses available June 13
The 2022-23 hunting licenses for Pennsylvania hunters will go on sale June 13 at various vendor locations across the state. Locations include the Game...
New CWD cases found in Pennsylvania wild deer
Twenty-five wild deer tested positive for chronic wasting disease, of the 5,707 deer and 110 elk the Pennsylvania Game Commission tested during 2016.
All of...
Appalachian Bat Count seeking volunteers
Game Commission biologists are seeking volunteers this summer in the Appalachian Bat Count, a statewide monitoring effort to collect bat maternity colony...
Game Commission updates CWD response areas
Regulation changes have been made to address the increasing threat chronic wasting disease (CWD) presents to the state’s deer and elk.
Disease Management...
Statewide bear harvest down 30 percent
Hunters during the final day of Pennsylvania’s statewide bear season harvested 168 bears, raising the 2017 statewide season harvest to 1,796 – an about 30...
Hunter Safety numbers hit new highs
With the statewide spring turkey season about to begin, the state’s hunters have a record performance to match. In 2019, Pennsylvania’s spring turkey season...
Hunters see highest overall deer harvest in 14 years
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...