Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Jan. 31, 2025, edition of Pennsylvania Outdoor News.

This roadrunner most likely had avian keratin disorder (AKD), a disease that causes the beak to overgrow and deform.

Farmers in many cases depend on hunters to manage deer on their properties and limit crop losses, in turn providing hunters ...

Testing is expected to continue through January, with hundreds of samples to be processed in the latter half of the month.

The fact that Aitkin County’s Farm Island Lake is an excellent multi-species fishery is no secret; that’s been known for decades. Walleyes and bass are plentiful in this 2,000-acre lake, and although ...

Let the sport shows begin! Ohio’s popular winter sports show season gets underway Jan. 10 and continues through March with a full calendar of expos scheduled across the state. The shows provide a ...

I’m not sure if I ever fished open water for walleyes in January. I know I fished in Lake Erie several times in late December. I fished the Saginaw River in December but don’t remember fishing ...

Well, the Illinois 2018-19 deer season is officially underway. As always, I was in the deer woods on opening day for morning and afternoon hunts. The day was damp and dismal at best. I’ve never killed ...

The Ohio DNR Division of Wildlife hosted sportsmen at the Ohio State Fair to celebrate the 75th birthday of the agency and to catch up with friends, talk about fishing, hunting, trapping, and ...

The deep freeze of recent weeks had ice anglers across Pennsylvania dusting off the tip-ups, augers, and other gear they hadn’t used in at least two years.

I checked a few more sets and had seven more rats. I moved the rest of my empty traps to new houses further into the marsh.

But An Outdoor Journal, his seventh book, stands out from the others as a unique memoir of the times Carter spent outdoors ...