http://www.tribune-democrat.com en-us Copyright CNHI All Rights Reserved. 5 Sun, 24 Aug 2008 23:40:00 +0000 http://www.tribune-democrat.com/outdoors/local_story_237233913.html http://www.tribune-democrat.com/outdoors/local_story_237233913.html On Sunday afternoon, Lydia Farabaugh laid down at the edge of a sunny field of goldenrod, put her cheek against the stock of a futuristic-looking rifle, and squeezed the trigger.Nearly four-fifths of a mile away, the Carrolltown teen’s bullet punched through paper and plywood inches from the bull’s eye. Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:06:00 +0000 http://www.tribune-democrat.com/outdoors/local_story_237000741.html http://www.tribune-democrat.com/outdoors/local_story_237000741.html Those who like to fish at Somerset County’s High Point Lake may have to find another favorite spot this fall, because the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission plans to drop the 388-acre impoundment’s water level by about 10 feet beginning next month.“You’re probably not going to be able to launch boats this fall,” said Tom Qualters Jr., assistant manager of the fish commission’s Southwest Region. “I imagine the fishing will be relegated to shore fishing, and some ice fishing later. I have no idea what the mud is going to be like there, but I know when they drew Somerset (Lake) down, the mud was pretty miserable to fish in.” Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:04:00 +0000 http://www.tribune-democrat.com/outdoors/local_story_237000401.html http://www.tribune-democrat.com/outdoors/local_story_237000401.html Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:04:00 +0000 http://www.tribune-democrat.com/outdoors/local_story_237000622.html http://www.tribune-democrat.com/outdoors/local_story_237000622.html Quite a few of us have thought, usually during a warm afternoon on the water, how nice it would be if we could just quit our jobs and make a living off fishing.Jeff Knapp is going to give it a try.There are only a few realistic ways of going about that. One is to become a tournament fisherman. Another is to become some sort of outdoor communicator – writing, television or lectures. A third is to guide. Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:33:00 +0000 http://www.tribune-democrat.com/outdoors/local_story_230003425.html http://www.tribune-democrat.com/outdoors/local_story_230003425.html Certain hunters who go out for mourning doves during the first week of this year’s season may be asked to help in an experimental survey conducted by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS).“Randomly selected hunters will be asked to save one wing from each mourning dove that they shoot during the first week of the hunting season and mail their wings in postage-paid envelopes to the USFWS,” Pennsylvania Game Commission’s game bird section Supervisor John Dunn said in an announcement. Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:32:00 +0000 http://www.tribune-democrat.com/outdoors/local_story_230003309.html http://www.tribune-democrat.com/outdoors/local_story_230003309.html Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:31:00 +0000 http://www.tribune-democrat.com/outdoors/local_story_230003147.html http://www.tribune-democrat.com/outdoors/local_story_230003147.html Four members of the Jerome Sportsmen’s Association’s small-bore rifle team have competed in the 2008 National Small-bore Three-Position Matches held July 16-19 at the National Guard facility at Camp Perry, Ohio. Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:30:00 +0000 http://www.tribune-democrat.com/outdoors/local_story_230003052.html http://www.tribune-democrat.com/outdoors/local_story_230003052.html Sat, 09 Aug 2008 23:42:00 +0000 http://www.tribune-democrat.com/outdoors/local_story_222234325.html http://www.tribune-democrat.com/outdoors/local_story_222234325.html For 30 years, Steve Lecorchick had the type of job most outdoorsmen dream of: He was paid by the outdoor industry to hunt, and then to talk about it in seminars, at outdoor shows and on television.But two years ago, he answered a higher calling.“I just up and quit my job with Penns Woods Game Calls and the TV show and everything and started a ministry,” Lecorchick said from his home in Northern Cambria. Sat, 09 Aug 2008 23:39:00 +0000 http://www.tribune-democrat.com/outdoors/local_story_222234132.html http://www.tribune-democrat.com/outdoors/local_story_222234132.html Illegal and irresponsible use of all-terrain vehicles is one of the biggest complaints registered by landowners – whether they be private individuals, commercial interests or state agencies.Such grievances frequently are taken to Pennsylvania Game Commission officers, who have their own problems with illicit riders on state game lands.The damage caused by criminal and reckless ATV riders is also exasperating to those who recognize environmental and habitat issues, even if they don’t own the land. Sat, 09 Aug 2008 23:38:00 +0000 http://www.tribune-democrat.com/outdoors/local_story_222233838.html http://www.tribune-democrat.com/outdoors/local_story_222233838.html Sat, 09 Aug 2008 23:37:00 +0000 http://www.tribune-democrat.com/outdoors/local_story_222233744.html http://www.tribune-democrat.com/outdoors/local_story_222233744.html Wildlife management unit 2G in the northcentral part of the state became the first of the state’s 22 management units to sell out of antlerless deer licenses on Friday, the Pennsylvania Game Commission said.The management unit had been allocated 26,000 licenses. Sat, 02 Aug 2008 23:01:00 +0000 http://www.tribune-democrat.com/outdoors/local_story_215230148.html http://www.tribune-democrat.com/outdoors/local_story_215230148.html A fisheries survey completed this summer on the Highland Sewer and Water Authority’s 360-acre Beaverdam Run Reservoir near Beaverdale shows that efforts of local sportsmen and others to improve the lake’s fishery are bearing fruit.Results of the survey, posted on the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission’s Web site, are an almost glowing report. Sat, 02 Aug 2008 22:59:00 +0000 http://www.tribune-democrat.com/outdoors/local_story_215230040.html http://www.tribune-democrat.com/outdoors/local_story_215230040.html It was about this time last year that the Pennsylvania Game Commission announced confirmation that epizootic hemorrhagic disease (EHD) had killed more than 100 deer in Greene and Washington counties, where it had also been found in 2002.By the time last summer ended, western Pennsylvania’s known death toll had climbed tenfold, the unknown mortality was likely much greater, and the disease had spread into Cambria, Fayette, Allegheny, Beaver, Lawrence, Washington and Westmoreland counties. Sat, 02 Aug 2008 22:58:00 +0000 http://www.tribune-democrat.com/outdoors/local_story_215225916.html http://www.tribune-democrat.com/outdoors/local_story_215225916.html