Outdoors-related clubs and organizations can submit items to be considered for publication in “Outdoors Briefs” by emailing to outdoors@republicanherald.com.
FCSA donates $5K to PFBC SOS campaign
Fishing Creek Sportsman Association, Columbia County, has donated $5,000 to the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission’s “S.O.S. — Save Our Susquehanna” campaign, pushing total contributions from concerned anglers to more than $28,000.
“I can’t thank Clair Harvey and the members enough for their contribution,” PFBC executive director John Arway said. “This is the largest donation to date and marks a big step toward our goal of raising $50,000 for projects to help save the river.”
Arway accepted the donation along with PFBC commissioner Eric Hussar at the FCSA’s cooperative hatchery in Benton. Through early November, concerned citizens have raised $28,151 for the S.O.S. campaign, including a $1,000 donation from the Enola Sportsmen’s Association in Cumberland County and more than $14,600 from sales of S.O.S. buttons.
“Our ‘Save Our Susquehanna’ message is resonating with anglers, with sportsmen’s clubs and with others who care about the river,” Arway added. “Now is the time to act, before it’s too late, and these two sportsmen’s groups have acted, and I encourage sportsmen’s groups across the state to discuss the issue with their members.”
In June, the PFBC launched the campaign to save the river by announcing that a portion of license sales and proceeds from $10 SOS buttons would be dedicated to funding water and soil conservation projects along the Susquehanna River, whose young smallmouth bass population has been plagued over the last decade by illness and elevated mortality rates. To kick off the campaign, the PFBC pledged $50,000 in matching funds.
Local gunsmith guest on radio program
Gunsmith Dave Keefer of Keefer’s Gun Shop, Pine Grove, is today’s guest of Republican-Herald outdoors editor Doyle Dietz on “Experience The Outdoors,” winner of the Pennsylvania Outdoor Writers Association award for best outdoors radio program, 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 by clicking the “Experience The Outdoors” link.
Local clubs requested to email schedules
Sportsmen’s clubs and organizations are encouraged to email a schedule of their activities for 2016, including meets, shoots and special events, to outdoors@
republicanherald.com for inclusion in the master list of Outdoors Briefs to ensure publication.
Today’s events
Sporting clays, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., Roedersville Game and Fish, 1357 Mountain Road, Pine Grove. Muzzleloader shoot, 9 a.m., Susquehanna Sportsmen Association, Sportsmen Club Road, off Cherokee Road, Route 642 East, Danville; for information, contact Bruce Whitenight, days, at (570) 784-9380; Gary Ent, evenings, at (570) 759-0719; or Wayne Flora at (570) 275-4349.
This week’s events
• Tuesday: Schuylkill County Trout Unlimited meeting, 7 p.m., Amvets, 13th and Seneca streets, Pottsville; for information, contact Tony Mione at (717) 979-0235 or email tonymione@outlook.com.
• Thursday: Trap, 6-9 p.m., Orwigsburg Gun Club, Gun Club Road, off Route 443 East, Orwigsburg; for information email grammyminch@gmail.com.
— Compiled by Doyle Dietz