Beaver County Sportsmen's Conservation League

To promote and foster, the protection and conservation of our wildlife resources

2017 BCSCL Youth Foundation Events

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Youth Fishing Derby @ Hopewell Community Park

Saturday, April 29th, 2017 (8am to 12 noon) registration @ 6:30 am Bring children “15 years of age and younger” for FREE!

For more information, contact: Mike (724)683-5880

Beaver County Sportsman’s Conservation Camp

“For children ages 12 to 15” @ Raccoon State Park for a full week of fun!

Sunday, June 18th through Saturday, June 24th, 2017

For more information, contact: Breanna (412)849-6849

Beaver County Sportsmen’s Conservation League Youth Foundation

“Youth Field Day” “For children ages 10 to 16” @ Midland Sportsman Club

Saturday, July 15th, 2017 – “Tentative Date”

A full day of fun beginning @ 6:30 am check-in until 5:00 pm

Registration is online: www.pgc.state.pa.us

For more information, contact: Jerry (724)601-6964

Youth Pheasant Hunt — “an unforgettable experience”

Coming in October 2017 — watch for further details

“Must be a Junior Licensed Hunter”

For more information, contact: Rich via email at: kerlinkanine@aol.com

Youth Goose Hunt — “an unforgettable experience”

Watch for more detail in the fall!

“Must be a Junior Licensed Hunter”

For more information contact: The Beaver County Recreation & Tourism

Department at (724)770-2060 or Rich via email at: kerlinkanine@aol.com

Sponsored by the
Beaver County Sportsmen’s Conservation League
With assistance from the
Beaver County Sportsmen’s Conservation League Youth Foundation

Or you can look us up on our Facebook page “Beaver County Sportsmen’s Conservation League Youth Foundation”.

PRELIMINARY 2017-18 HUNTING/TRAPPING SEASONS APPROVED

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HARRISBURG, PA – The Pennsylvania Board of Game Commissioners gave preliminary approval to hunting and trapping seasons and bag limits for the 2017-18 license year.

Modifications proposed for the 2017-18 seasons include: moving the statewide archery bear season to the next-to-the-last week of the archery deer season; changing the firearms deer season in Wildlife Management Units 5A and 5B to bucks-only hunting from the opening day through the first Friday; opening a conservative mid-week fall turkey season in Wildlife Management Area 5B, and reducing the season length in WMUs 4A, 4B and 4E; eliminating the post-Christmas segment of the ruffed-grouse season to improve adult survival due to recent population declines; restoring an extended black-bear season in WMU 3A; opening the Central Susquehanna Wild Pheasant Recovery Area to a youth-only pheasant-hunting season; opening WMU 5A to put-and-take bobwhite quail hunting, given the lack of wild quail in the area and the low likelihood of quail reintroduction being initiated there soon.

The public may offer comments on all proposed 2017-18 seasons and bag limits, as well as other board actions, between now and the board’s next meeting, March 27 and 28, at which time the board is scheduled to finalize seasons and bag limits for 2017-18.

Also, the board will receive at its March meeting staff recommendations for antlerless deer license allocations for each of the 23 WMUs. Deer harvest estimates for the 2016-17 seasons are expected to be available in mid-March.

Following are several articles on meeting highlights.

  • Split Firearms Deer Seasons Up for March Approval
  • Fall Turkey Season Changes Move Forward
  • 2017-18 Seasons and Bag Limits

Read the details

http://www.media.pa.gov/Pages/Game-Commission-Details.aspx?newsid=99

Courtesy of PA Game Commission

DON’T GET CITED FOR BAITING

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 HARRISBURG, PA – Fifty-pound sacks of shelled corn sit stacked at the end of the aisle.

On the bottom shelf, an assortment 25-pound salt blocks, some of them apple-flavored or advertised as high-protein varieties, are wrapped in plastic, next to gallon jugs of liquefied mineral attractants.

Any or all of these products are perfectly legal to purchase. And depending on where in Pennsylvania you’re standing, and the time of year, they might or might not be lawful to use outdoors to attract deer or other wildlife.

But at least 30 days prior to hunting an area where baits like these are used, all such products must be removed from it completely. Even their residues must be gone. And if the requirement isn’t met, any hunter in that area is considered to be hunting illegally over bait.

Aside from a few, very narrow exceptions, hunting through the use of bait is illegal in Pennsylvania.

Yet, each year, it remains one of the top violations for which Game Commission wildlife conservation officers file charges. And the prevalence of baiting seems to have grown in recent years.

In the 2015-16 license year, which ended June 30, charges were filed for hunting over bait in 503 cases statewide. That’s up from 468 hunting-over-bait prosecutions in 2014-15 and 422 in 2013-14.

While many cases investigated by the Game Commission reveal a clear intent to break the law – such as piling corn or apples or placing deer-attracting minerals on the ground in a hunting area – other times the case specifics are a little more complex.

But any question about what’s legal and what isn’t always can be answered by the law.

 

Read the full news release to learn more about what constitues baiting, baiting penalties, special regulations areas and feeding wildlife.