The Pennsylvania Game Commission is set to discuss several proposals centered around the upcoming hunting schedule for the 2026-27 outdoor season. State wildlife officials will hold the first Board of Commissioners meeting, of the new year, next weekend, with several agenda items on the docket. Officials say among those discussions will be the Board's consideration of a proposal to move the start of the 2026-27 firearms deer season to the Saturday before Thanksgiving. “This change would give hun

🦃💥Boom! We are in the third year of the LARGEST wild turkey study ever in Pennsylvania, in cooperation with Penn State University and the University of Pennsylvania’s Wildlife Futures Program. We are looking at factors that impact turkey populations, including survival, reproduction, disease, movement, and habitat use and how they differ by habitat type, to develop new management strategies. As part of the ongoing study, turkey flocks are being trapped using a rocket net, as shown in the video