Pennsylvania hunters achieved a significant milestone during the 2024-25 hunting seasons, harvesting an estimated 476,880 deer statewide, marking an 11% increase from the previous year. This rise ...

HARRISBURG, Pa., -- State forestlands ... Provide additional hunting opportunities; Establish and maintain regeneration to support sustainable forestry practices with minimal need for deer fencing ...

Erie County Republican Dan Laughlin led the Senate’s previous effort, and his bipartisan legislation this year is again ...

For years, advocates, including the Pennsylvania Game Commission, have argued the state’s “blue laws” prohibiting hunting on ...

Numbers dwindle Hunting is far more than a hobby in Pennsylvania ... administered by the state’s Department of Conservation and Natural Resources’ Bureau of Forestry. The bureau leases ...

Pennsylvania Senate Bill 67 would eliminate the state's restriction on Sunday hunting. Supporters of the bill, including the Pennsylvania Farm Bureau, believe it will help control deer populations ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (WJAC) — A bill that would fully repeal Pennsylvania’s ban on Sunday hunting has been reintroduced. The state Game Commission applauded the reintroduction of Senate Bill 67 ...

Pennsylvania lawmakers are taking another look at making hunting a seven-day-a-week activity, when in season. State Sen. Dan Laughlin, R-Erie, this week introduced Senate Bill 67 to fully repeal ...