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PGC seeks instructors
for hunter-education
Experienced hunters and trappers who are interested in becoming volunteer instructors for the Pennsylvania Game Commission’s basic Hunter-Trapper Education, Successful Bowhunting, Successful Furtaking and the Successful Turkey Hunting courses are being sought by the agency.
Instructors work with other volunteer instructors and wildlife conservation officers to plan and teach classes. Applicants need not be experts in every field of hunting and trapping, and all teaching materials and detailed lesson plans are provided by the PGC.
All new instructors must have attended and completed a class, as a student, within 18 months prior to or after submitting their application. Also, applicants must pass a background check, assist with at least one student-level class and attend a new instructor training workshop before being certified.
For information about becoming an instructor, visit the agency’s website at www.pgc.state.pa.us and select “Become an HTE Instructor” on the homepage, request an application packet online or call the agency’s Hunter Education and Outreach Division at (717) 787-7015.
Elk camera now
live on PGC website
The Pennsylvania Game Commission has installed a camera on State Game Lands 311 in Elk County — in a field that is off limits to people but that typically is a hub of elk activity — as the bugling season heats up.
The camera was installed with help from the state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources’ Bureau of Forestry. Video and sound from the camera are being live streamed on the Game Commission’s website, www.pgc.state.pa.us, and bull elk, along with turkeys, deer and other wildlife, already have made appearances.
Holster designer radio show guest
Viper Holster Company president and founder Joe Piazza is today’s guest of Republican-Herald/News-Item outdoors editor Doyle Dietz on “Experience The Outdoors,” 7-7:30 a.m. on WLSH 1410-AM, 9:30-10 a.m. on WMGH, Magic 105.5-FM and on the Web at www.wmgh.com.
Daily events
3D simulated hunting course, dawn to dusk through Saturday, Oct. 17, Bear’s Head Archery, 148 Lofty Road, Delano, off Exit 134 of I-81; closed for trap second and fourth Sundays, 1-5 p.m.; for information, call the club at (570) 467-0331.
Today’s events
Pennsylvania Bowhunters Festival, gates open 6 a.m. daily, Sullivan County Fairgrounds, Forksville; for information, access the website at www.pabowhunters.com. 3D, 7 a.m. to 1 p.m., Seltzer Gun Club, 532 Seltzer Road; for information, contact Matt Balulis at (570) 640-1938. 3D, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., Roedersville Game and Fish, 1357 Mountain Road Pine Grove. Lehigh Valley Knife Show, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Charles Chrin Community Center of Palmer Township, 4100 Green Pond Road, Easton. Block shoot, shotguns and flintlock rifles, 11 a.m., Port Clinton Fish and Game; for information, contact Ted Knoblauch at (610) 562-4310.
This week’s events
• Tuesday: Schuylkill County Trout Unlimited picnic meeting, Sept. 22, 6:30 p.m., Sweet Arrow Lake County Park clubhouse, Pine Grove; for information, contact Tony Mione at (717) 979-0235 or email tonymione@outlook.com.
• Wednesday: Backyard Compost Clinic, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Sweet Arrow Lake County Park Clubhouse, Pine Grove.
• Thursday: Trap, 6-9 p.m., Orwigsburg Gun Club, Gun Club Road, off Route 443 East, Orwigsburg; for information, email grammyminch@gmail.com.
• Saturday: “Lofty Dam and Pumping Station Dam Hike,” 2-5 p.m., meets on Route 924 north of Shenandoah Heights; for information, contact “Porcupine Pat” McKinney at porcupinepat@yahoo.com or (570) 622-4124, ext. 113.
• Sunday, Sept. 27: Sporting clays, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., Roedersville Game and Fish, 1357 Mountain Road Pine Grove. Brad Huber Memorial Shoot, 9 a.m., Friedensburg Fish and Game, 169 Stone Mountain Road, Pine Grove. Muzzleloader shoot, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., First Frontier Militia, Bowmanstown Rod and Gun Club, Gun Club Road, off Route 248; for information, contact Ken Milburn at (610) 767-6222 or Dave Algard at (610) 760-8333.
— Compiled by Doyle Dietz