DEER SEASON IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER
Pennsylvania's biggest hunting season - the two-week rifle deer season - is just around the corner. According to the Pennsylvania Game Commission, no other hunting season creates as much excitement, puts more meat in freezers and draws as many hunters afield, including former residents and nonresident hunters. Deer hunting is big in Pennsylvania.
The season, which starts the Monday after Thanksgiving and runs through Dec. 8, annually leads to the harvest of more than a quarter million deer and pumps millions of dollars into the Commonwealth's economy.
LOCAL WHITE-TAILED DEER INFORMATION AVAILABLE ONLINE
Interested in learning more about what's going on with whitetails in your county? Please consider visiting the Pennsylvania Game Commission's "Field Officer Game Forecasts" found on the agency's website (
www.pgc.state.pa.us).
DON'T FORGET TO SUBMIT A HARVEST REPORT CARD
The Pennsylvania Game Commission counts on hunters to provide information on the deer they harvest. If all hunters who harvested a deer would send in their harvest report cards, as required by law, harvest estimates wouldn't be needed. But it hasn't been working out that way for some time.
For more information, please visit the Pennsylvania Game Commission - State Wildlife Management Agency website:
http://www.pgc.state.pa.us/pgc/cwp/view.asp?a=11&Q=172889
