Kelvin Pereira (KP), Sonia McFadden, Christopher Pereira (holding bag containing a black rat snake) and David Mcfadden (holding bag containing a timber rattlesnake)

A few local adventuresome types who attended the 2008 Landisburg Fire Company's annual timber rattlesnake hunt fundraiser got to experience some other wildlife up-close-and-personal.

Area residents Kelvin Pereira (KP), Sonia McFadden, Christopher Pereira and David McFadden drove a short distance from where the rest of their group was hunting on July 19. David left the others to hunt a rugged, rocky open pipeline while the rest of the group waited near the vehicle.

Here's an excerpt from the e-mail sent to us by David:

As Sonia, Christopher and KP lounged inside the truck trying to keep cool, a black bear of gargantuan proportions approached completely unnoticed by all. Only when Sonia caught a glimpse of movement outside her window did she see the bear, which at that point was almost inside the vehicle with them. Sonia and the bear saw each other at the same time and the bear turned to meander up the pipeline.

The bear . . .

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A state Senate bill that would increase certain hunting license fees beginning in the 2009-10 season received public support Monday from Pennsylvania Game Commission executive director Carl Roe.

Senate Bill 1527 is sponsored by state Sen. Charles T. McIlhinney Jr. (R-Bucks), who is the Senate Game and Fisheries Committee chair.

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This fall's deer season could be strong in at least one area, reports the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.
Matt Kramer, the Pennsylvania Game Commission's wildlife conservation officer in Beaver County, said he's noticed several "bachelor groups of better than average bucks" during his travels.
"While these bucks are on friendly terms in the summer months, when the fall rolls around, they will not tolerate each other's company. However, a dispersing buck is one that often falls to the hunter's arrow or shot, so prospects for harvesting a buck in Beaver County look pretty good for those that do their homework and put in the time," he said.

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The latest twist in the Sasquatch Saga ...

(for past updates on this story see this and this.)

... is that Field & Stream has come up with the brilliant (marketing-wise) plan of offering $1 million to the first person who takes a verifiable photo of a sasquatch using a trail camera.

Click here for the full details on their contest.

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By Walter Brasch
Spectrum Features Syndicate

ELYSBURG -- Registration at the annual Colonial Classic and Pennsylvania State Shoot was down 15-20 percent this year.

The problems are both the increase in the price of gas and the economy says Bruce Murphy, president of the Pennsylvania State Sportsmen's Association, which sponsors one of the nation's largest trap shoot tournaments.

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I think it's safe to say that this story, from our sister newspaper in Hanover, is going to create a firestorm of controversy...

By KATHARINE HARMON
Evening Sun Reporter

A New Oxford man thought he was saving a fawn when he scooped it up off a road in Maryland and took it home to nurse it back to health after its mother was hit by a car.

William Albert bottle-fed the fawn in his 218 Reba Drive garage and called around to see if any wildlife-rehabilitation centers would take the baby deer.

Albert also called the Pennsylvania Game Commission to help him find a place to send the deer, but when a wildlife officer showed up at his house a short while later, he took the deer and had it killed.

Now, Albert says the officer -- who arrived at the house before Albert did, just 10 minutes after Albert called -- was on his property without his permission or a warrant, and the deer definitely shouldn't have been destroyed.

For the rest of the story, click here to go to the Evening Sun.

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The Associated Press

NEW YORK — More people are hurt snowboarding than any other outdoor activity, accounting for a quarter of emergency room visits, according to the first national study to estimate recreational injuries.

Trailing snowboarding are sledding and hiking, researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report in the journal Wilderness and Environmental Medicine.

The most common problems were broken bones and sprains, accounting for half of all cases. About 7 percent of ER visits were for concussions or other brain injuries.

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The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission has stopped walleye fry stockings in the Susquehanna, Lehigh and Allegheny rivers on an experimental basis. Fry are young fish in their early stage of life, from one to three weeks old.

“We have been stocking walleye fry in portions of these rivers where spawning habitat was believed to be poor,” stated Dave Miko, PFBC Chief -- Division of Fisheries Management in a news release. “In some of these waters, dams restricted the ability of walleye to move freely throughout the river. However, the recent removal of dams or the improvement of fish passage over these dams has provided walleye with increased access to spawning areas.

“As a result, we think the current level of natural reproduction in these rivers may be capable of sustaining the walleye population and providing the recreational opportunities that anglers have come to expect.”

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A couple of truly old blog posts here on The Lineup Card are still generating commenting traffic. It's kind of fascinating, really. They just created lives of their own and kept on ticking.

In case you're curious, one is the infamous entry from Nov. 20, 2007, about the harvesting of an albino bear cub. That one has 78 comments and counting. And the other is the "Irked about the York Young Revolution" reader letter from Nov. 19, 2007, which has 60 comments thus far.

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Pennsylvania's deer hunting management will be scrutinized following unanimous passage of a House resolution earlier this week. The annual deer harvest totals are the subject of fierce debate in Pennsylvania.

The sponsor, Rep. David Levdansky, D-Allegheny, said Pennsylvania Game Commission policies in place for the past five years warrant closer study.

He said advocates and critics of the policies will both benefit from an objective, independent examination on how the deer herd is managed.

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