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Local Meeting Schedule:
 
All meeting are schedule for the 3rd Thursday
of the month at 7:30pm unless otherwise posted.
 
May 15th 7:30pm
Guthsville Rod & Gun Club
Program is open
 
June 19th 7:30pm
Copeechan Fish & Game Club
Program is open
 
All meeting are open to the general public.

Here is just a sample of some of the issues PFSC has played a major role in:
  • Stopping HB 2181 - legislation that would take away control of our game lands from the PGC and placed them under IRRC.
  • Repealing the Philadelphia Firearms Act. 
  • Establishing fish ladders for migratory species on the Susquehanna River.
  • Protecting existing club shooting ranges from closure due to noise complaints, through Act 74 and SB 56 of 1997.
  • Preventing local government from prohibiting hunting in their jurisdiction, through a successful case in the Supreme Court if Pennsylvania.
  • Insuring the public's right to navigable waterways through a lawsuit over the Lehigh River.
  • Supporting the bobcat season approved by the PGC - animal rights groups oppose trapping, the most likely way means of harvesting bobcats.
  • Supported the Conservation and Reinvestment Act, and now "CARA light" and state wildlifegrant funding-national legislation which will bring millions of dollars to PA forwildlife and habitat.
  • Monitoring firearms legislation and all legislation that could be detrimental to our outdoor heritage.
  • Oppose any merger of our commisions, especially one under DCNR. We believe any merger would lead to a reduction in services to our fish and wildlife resources and to the sportsmen and women of PA who are proud of our heritage and who want our great traditions and heritage to continue. Also oppose merger of the law enforcement of the agencies.
  • Support long term alternate funding of our Game Commission and Fish & Boat Commission so they can remain fiscally strong  and fighting for fair and equitable license when needed. We support and helped pass a fish license increase to provide financial stability to the PFBC and are now working to help pass a license increase for the PGC.
  • Supported Growing Greener II Bond Initiative that includes $27M for the PFBC and $20M for the PGC.
If PFSC isn't there to lobby for your rights and privelages, who will? Join today so your voice can be heard!

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Vote Your Sport

GAME COMMISSION COMMENDS GOV. RENDELL FOR SIGNING BILL TO AMEND LANDOWNER LIABILITY LAW

HARRISBURG - Pennsylvania Game Commission Executive Director Carl G. Roe praised Gov. Edward G. Rendell for signing into law House Bill 13, sponsored by Rep. Harry A. Readshaw (D-Allegheny), which seeks to amend the state's landowner liability law. 

On June 26, the Senate voted 50-0 to send House Bill 13 to Gov. Rendell's desk for his consideration.  House Bill 13 previously was approved by the House on May 23, by a vote of 199-0. 

"For decades, the Recreational Use of Land and Water Act stood to protect landowners who agree to open their land to hunters," Roe said.  "However, a recent civil case in Lehigh County, demonstrated that there was a need to strengthen the law, thereby continuing to provide liability protection for landowners who generously open their lands to hunters.

"With Gov. Rendell's signature, new language has been added to the law to provide additional liability protections for landowners who welcome hunters onto their properties."

Roe offered special praise to Readshaw for sponsoring the bill, and House Game and Fisheries Committee Chairman Edward Staback (D-Lackawanna), for his assistance in moving the measure through the House.  Roe also thanked Sens. Robert D. Robbins (R-Mercer) and Jake Corman (R-Centre) for their leadership on the bill during Senate consideration.

Created in 1895 as an independent state agency, the Game Commission is responsible for conserving and managing all wild birds and mammals in the Commonwealth, establishing hunting seasons and bag limits, enforcing hunting and trapping laws, and managing habitat on the 1.4 million acres of State Game Lands it has purchased over the years with hunting and furtaking license dollars to safeguard wildlife habitat. The agency also conducts numerous wildlife conservation programs for schools, civic organizations and sportsmen's clubs.

The Game Commission does not receive any general state taxpayer dollars for its annual operating budget. The agency is funded by license sales revenues; the state's share of the federal Pittman-Robertson program, which is an excise tax collected through the sale of sporting arms and ammunition; and monies from the sale of oil, gas, coal, timber and minerals derived from State Game Lands.
 
 
Release #081-07
July 2, 2007
For Information Contact:
Jerry Feaser
717-705-6541
PGCNews@state.pa.us