Natural Resources Commission member Patrick Early (left), department Director Dan Bortner and commission Chair Bryan Poynter at a commission meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024. (Leslie Bonilla ...

Sep. 21—The Natural Resources Commission gave final adoption of amendments to rule proposals governing deer hunting and river otter trapping at its meeting Sept. 17. The proposed changes to the river ...

It was back at deer camp that my good buddy from my days of growing up, Doug Cibulka told me that his 16-year-old son, Derek, and himself had otter trapping tags. All that needed to be said was that ...

If you see a furry head with whiskers pop up in a local creek or wetland, it may be an otter. Or it may be a beaver.River otters were re-introduced to Western New York in the late 1990s after they ...

Its not all that often that a new hunting or trapping season is created for a new species. But in the last 16 years, the Pennsylvania Game Commission will have done it three times with river otters ...

Jim Kauffman holds an adult female otter that he captured last October in the Big Bushkill Creek in Porter Township, Pike County. The otter was captured and released as part of a study conducted by ...

Natural Resources Commission member Patrick Early (left), department Director Dan Bortner and commission Chair Bryan Poynter at a commission meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024. (Leslie Bonilla ...