With half of August behind us, it’s only a short matter of time before cooler fall weather settles in — and with it, the excitement of hunting seasons.
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With half of August behind us, it’s only a short matter of time before cooler fall weather settles in — and with it, the excitement of hunting seasons.
BEECH LOOP/FROG POND HIKE
Last week, I discussed buzzbaits, a popular surface lure for bass.
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BETHANY BEACH, Del. (AP) — Peering through the darkness under the faint light of a peach-colored moon, wildlife biologist Jason Davis spots a telltale green flash in the bushes.
Allegheny County Game Warden Dan Puhala reports a hunter recently pleaded guilty to unlawfully stalking a turkey during the spring season and shooting it with a semiautomatic handgun. The hunter was fined $500, plus court costs, and faces possible license revocation.
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Last week, Kathy and I took our young granddaughter to the beach. We all enjoyed the sun and the cool water’s refreshment from summer’s heat. But to enjoy this idyll, we did not endure long hours in the car, gridlocked traffic, or a high-price hotel. Our beach excursion was a day-trip to Laurel Hill State Park, about 25 miles northeast in the heart of the Laurel Highlands. There, we paid no fee to park, picnic or play. Nor did it cost us to enjoy the appealing view of forested crests, co…
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We did a bit of gardening this past weekend — backstrap gardening, that is.
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NEW YORK (AP) — When 40-year outdoor industry veteran Greg Thomsen launched Adidas's U.S. outdoors business back in 2010, he faced some big challenges.
LIFE ON THE LOWER YOUGH
After a rainy start, summer has settled into a more pleasant pattern with lots of sunny warm days and mostly comfortable nights. The rains have been more scattered, with some areas getting drenched while others just a gentle shower. The day Uniontown received over 4 inches of rain in a few hours, we measured just a half inch here at our weather station at Chalk Hill.
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With just about two months remaining until the 2019-2020 hunting season begins, now is the time to put the hours into food plots and ensure permits and tags are in order.
While writing this column for almost 20 years, I’ve amassed an enormous amount of notes about fishing, hunting and countless other outdoor topics I’ve featured here during that time.
VOLUNTEER TRAIL CLEAN-UP DAY
Most of us have had that vacation at the beach, the mountains of North Carolina or the trip to Disney. For the most part, they are fun and provide for a lot of good memories. Trouble is, after a thousand miles on the crowded interstates with congestion, delays and detours, as well as crowded restaurants with long waits for tables by the time, we get home and realize that its back to work tomorrow and we are really in need of a vacation from the vacation.
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Our region’s outdoors got an international spotlight last week when some fortunate whitewater rafters plunged over the Ohiopyle falls on the Youghiogheny River. They were indeed fortunate to be rescued, but they’d also done one thing right. They’d worn lifejackets, known in boating parlance as PFDs — Personal Flotation Device.
When it comes to summertime trout-fishing tactics, I’m usually preaching stealth and finesse. Under typical summer water conditions, successful trout anglers are those who can cope with low water and ultra-spooky fish by carefully sneaking into casting range while keeping a low profile and then making deliberate, precise casts with as little disturbance as possible.
JONATHAN RUN HIKE
Ben Moyer of Farmington won a first place award at the 2019 Outdoor Writers Association of America (OWAA) Excellence in Craft Contest recently.
After a few days of heat and humidity last week, our weather shifted to a cooler and much drier pattern. A cool front from Canada chased the hot and humid weather southward where it resides most of the summer.
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Those hoping for a dry, mild summer were out of luck this year as rainy stretches and humid days have, so far, been in abundance. Today and tomorrow, though, are predicted to be particularly challenging, as temperatures as expected to rise into the 90s.
In June 2002, a fisherman discovered a northern snakehead in a pond near Crofton, Maryland. The northern snakehead is a large, predatory freshwater fish native to China, Russia, North Korea and South Korea and is also regarded as an important food fish in those places.
INTRO TO PADDLE BOARDING
This past week, it was Hurricane Barry dumping tropical moisture across the southern states with more flooding and destruction. Ahead of the storm, the city of New Orleans received 6 to 8 inches of rain a week before Barry, so streams were already full. Fortunately, Barry obliged the city of New Orleans and dumped most of the rain east of the city, thus avoiding a major catastrophe. Two weeks ago, tropical moisture invaded a thunderstorm complex in the Washington D.C. and Northern Virgin…
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For an Allegheny uplander, central Arkansas requires an adjustment. Here at home, the woods are always above you — on the ridges and hills, and farmers till the valleys. But think the reverse on the Arkansas prairies. There, forest grows down low, in stream channels and floodplains too wet to farm. Roughly speaking, if a stream channel is broad enough to get lost in, it’s called a bayou, a French word for swampland.
For more than a century, hunting on Sunday has been prohibited in Pennsylvania. But recent steps taken by the state senate has a bill in the works, bringing the possibility of limited Sunday hunting closer than ever before.
