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HARRISBURG - Penn
sylvania’s regular small
game hunting season will
open on Saturday,
November 3, at 9 a.m.
Since the entire state will
be operating on Eastern
Standard Time on November
3, there should be no con
fusion on the starting time
for all hunters everywhere in
the state.
Season opener on
November 3 includes cot
tontail rabbits, ringneck
pheasants, wild turkeys and
bobwhitc quail. The raccoon
DER schedules
two water
quality hearings
HARRISBURG • Public
hearings on proposed
revisions to the Com
monwealth’s water quality
regulations will be con
ducted by the En
vironmental Quality Board
in Harrisburg October 29 and
in Sandy Lake, Mercer
County, November 1.
The Pennsylvania
Department of En
vironmental Resources is
proposing to better protect
aquatic life and water
irrigation uses by in
coportating specific con
ductance criterion into its
regulations governing total
dissolved solids.
It is also recommending
that the nitrite-nitrate
standard, designed to
protect drinking water, be
modified to include a section
spelling out circumstances
under which the criterion is
to be applied.
Both proposals in
corporate citizens’
suggetions mailed in and
presented orally at a Feb. 22
public hearing in
Harrisburg.
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productive range. A good pasture with a pH of 6.5 or
higher, for example, will make 300 to 400 lbs. of beef
per acre and produce up to $lOO gross income per acre.
This means with the help of lime, profits from pastures
can compare favorably with feed or grain crops.
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Small game season
hunting season will also open
on November 3.
Grouse and squirrel
hunting started two weeks
prior to the regular small
game season, beginning on
October 20 this year.
The regular small game
season for cottontails and
pheasants, as well as the
squirrel and grouse season,
will close on Saturday,
November 24. The statewide
turkey season closes one
week earlier on Saturday,
November 17.
This year, there will be
only a one-week quail
Leonard A. Green,
Citizens Advisory Council
representatives to the
Quality Board, will conduct
the 1 p.m., October 29
hearing in the Fulton Bank
Building, 200 North Third
Street, Harrisburg.
The November 1 hearing,
also starting at 1 p.m., will
be led by Rep. Roy W. Wilt,
R-Mercer, in McKeever
Environmental Learning
Center, Route 358, three
miles east of I-79’s Exit 34,
Sandy Lake.
have a
nice weekend...
MARTIN
LIMESTONE
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season, ending on Saturday,
November 10. The raccoon
hunting season continues
through January 31.
Pre-season reports by
district game protectors
indicate that supplies of
most small game species
this year are in the fair-to
good range, following
generally successful
reproductive seasons with
good food supplies and cover
conditions.
Last year during the
regular small game season,
hunters were complaining
about a shortage of rabbits.
A Game Commission survey
showed that the cottontail
harvest, as well as the take
of pheasants, was lower than
in the preceding year.
But in the spring of this
year, district game
protectors received more
complaints of damage by
rabbits than they had ever
received before.
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opens November 3
This fall, district game
protectors reported that
their supply of cottontails, at.
least in September, was at
an excellent level in three
counties, good in 27 counties,
fair in 28 counties, and poor
in only nine counties. The
best rabbit populations seem
to be in the eastern counties.
Ringneck pheasant sup-
plies are not at the all-time
record level chalked up a
v few years ago. Game
managers point out that
when the population of any
game species reaches its
peak, there is only one
direction the supply can go-
down. But the pheasant
supply has not dropped to
alarmingly low levels.
In September, district
game protectors rated their
pheasant 'populations as
excellent in one county, good
in 10 counties, fair in 42
counties, and poor in 14
Look For The Right One.
ERNEST SNOOK
F.
counties. Most of the top
nngneck populations are
found in southeastern
counties.
Turkey populations have
shifted somewhat in the past
year, being lower in nor
thcentral counties and
higher in northeastern
counties than in previous
years. The total turkey
supply is down slightly from
the record peak of a' few
years ago.
In September, district
game protectors in six
counties rated their turkey
supplies as excellent, 24
counties reported good
populations of birds, 2S
counties had fair levels of
turkeys, and the big game
birds were in poor supply or
nonexistent in twelve
counties.
The best turkey hunting
this year should be in nor
theastern, southcentral and
northcentral counties.
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a lot of
chokes in
liquid
some baa some
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better.,.
This year’s regular small
game season is starting one
week late due to hunters’
complaints about scarcity of
game last year, lower
wildlife populations due to
three successive severe
winters, and requests from
farmers, on whose land most
small game hunting is done,
that the season open as near
to November 1 as prac
ticable.
These are the daily and
possession limits for small
game species during the
regular season:
Cottontail rabbits - A limit
of four per hunter per day
and eight in possession.
Ringneck pheasants - The
daily limit is two, with a
possession limit of four.
Wild Turkey - A limit of
one per hunter for the fall
hunting season.
Bobwhite quail - A daily
limit of four, with eight in
possession of the hunter.
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