Game-land tours open PA scenery to the public

PENNSYLVANIA — As part of the Pennsylvania Game Commission’s efforts to highlight its ongoing habitat improvement initiatives, the public is invited to take part in tours of several state game lands between Sunday, September 20 and Sunday, October 18. All tours are free.

“With autumn nearly here, these tours will provide a chance to see some of the best scenery the Commonwealth has to offer. These tours afford hunters and trappers and others who appreciate wildlife the opportunity to see how the game commission is spending hunting and fur-taker license fees to acquire and to manage these lands for wildlife,” said Carl G. Roe, game commission executive director.

Roe noted that staff shortages and limited financial resources forced a reduction in the number of State Game Land tours this year.

In 1919, the Game Commission was granted authority to purchase lands for the protection, propagation and management of game and wildlife, and to provide areas for public hunting and trapping. Since that time, the game commission has acquired more than 1.4 million acres in 65 of the state’s 67 counties (Philadelphia and Delaware counties being the exceptions).

For more information visit pgc.state.pa.us/pgc/cwp/view.asp?a=11&Q=177089 .