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Archive for the ‘Hunter-Trapper Education’ category
Posted: November 8th, 2012

The Pennsylvania Game Commission will offer hunter-trapper education courses in northwestern Pennsylvania on the following days and times:

Keystone Gun Club, Erie, Friday (6-9:30 p.m.); Saturday (9 a.m.-5:30 p.m.)

Stoneboro Volunteer Fire Department, Stoneboro, Sunday (4:30-8:30 p.m.); Monday (5:30-8:30 p.m.); Tuesday (5:30-8:30 p.m.)

Jennings Environmental Education Center, Slippery Rock, Tuesday (5:30-9:30 p.m.); Wednesday (6-9:30 p.m.); Nov. 15 (6-9:30 p.m.)

Greene Township Municipal Building, Tuesday (6-9:30 p.m.); Wednesday (6-9:30 p.m.); Nov. 15 (6-9:30 p.m.); Nov. 24 (1-4 p.m.)

For availability and other information, call (814) 432-3187, or visit www.pgc.state.pa.us.

Posted: July 12th, 2010

Upcoming Pennsylvania Game Commission Hunter-Trapper Education courses in northwestern Pennsylvania, as listed on the Pennsylvania Game Commission calendar. Participants must be at least 11 years old and attend all sessions for each free course. Registration is required for all courses.

When: July 15, 5-9 p.m.; July 17, 8 a.m.-5 p.m.
Where: Mercer County Coonhunters Club, 59 Henry Road, Greenville 16125
Contact: Glenn Clark (724) 588-8423

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Posted: January 25th, 2010
If you’ve found your way to this blog, you probably like to read about others’ outdoors experiences.
We’d love to write about yours.
Here’s part of my Erie Times-News column from Jan. 24, shamelessly and hopefully asking for story ideas — yours — that NWPA Outdoors can tell in print and online.
“[W]hy not share your birding life list, and some of the challenges that went into building it? Or the time you went peak-bagging in the American West, or hiked the Appalachian Trail (or even the North Country Trail)? How about that wild white-water run in your kayak on the Youghiogheny? The night you were lost in unfamiliar woods? The long hours you spent motionlessly calling a trophy Tom?
“E-mail me (at matt.martin@timesnews.com), or mail a note to NWPA Outdoors c/o Sports, Erie Times-News, 205 W. 12th St., Erie, PA 16534. Include details about yourself or the person or issue you’d like to see profiled, plus contact information for both.
“Those who contribute usable ideas will be eligible for a random prize drawing in which we’ll award, at a minimum, National Geographic’s 224-page ‘Birding Essentials’ and the International Game Fish Association’s 408-page ’2010 World Record Game Fishes.’
So how about sharing?
Posted: August 6th, 2009

Upcoming Pennsylvania Game Commission Hunter-Trapper Education courses in northwestern Pennsylvania, as listed on the Pennsylvania Game Commission calendar. Participants must be at least 11 years old and attend all sessions for each free course. Registration is required for all courses; registration for some but not all courses is available online.

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