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Joe Keffer, owner of The Sportsman's Shop in New Holland, was recently named the 2011 Retailer of the Year by SHOT Business at this year's SHOT Show in Las Vegas.
SHOT Business is a publication dedicated to the industries covered by its name — Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade.
The SHOT Show...

Fortunately, the Manheim Township family didn't want the honeybees killed.
The colony in a knot of a large silver maple tree in the backyard had been there since they bought the house the year before. Even though the mother was allergic to bee stings and they had a young daughter, the bees didn't bo...

 

Ask a few questions, and you have to live with the answers you get.
For years, proponents of the Pennsylvania Game Commission's deer-management program have speculated that it's just a "vocal minority" of disgruntled hunters who are unhappy with the state's deer population.
That there is a...

 

The Pennsylvania Board of Game Commissioners last week voted to issue 888,000 antlerless deer permits for the 2012-13 hunting season.
That's down from last year's allocation of 913,000.
Allocations for the individual wildlife management units are listed in the table accompanying this artic...

Gary San Julian knew it was a sign of the changing times. But how in the heck, he wondered, could someone in wildlife management be effective unless they knew something about hunting and hunters?
So, about a decade ago, the Penn State professor emeritus of wildlife resources started a hunting-immers...

 

Local deer hunters who head south of the border to chase whitetails in Maryland are in for a few changes next season.
Maryland Department of Natural Resources recently announced a slate of new regulations it expects to implement for the 2012-13 hunting season.
And several of the biggest ch...

It sure seemed like a record that would stand for a long time.
But the Boone & Crockett Club last week confirmed that there's a new Pennsylvania state-record nontypical elk.
That means Churchtown resident John Shirk's monster, 441-inch elk, shot in Clinton County in 2006, has been bumped to the ...

That's 11-year-old Manheim Township climber Cameron Horst playing Spider Man, making worldwide news as he scales the God's Own Stone route at Kentucky's Red River Gorge on April 9.
The route carries a difficulty rating of 5.14a, a level achieved by only a few hundred climbers on the planet — o...

Pollination isn't sexy and it's one of those things in nature that's kind of taken for granted.
But the news lately has not been good. Honey bee colonies are collapsing from a type of insecticide. Native bees are declining from diseases and habitat loss. Invasive species of plants are crowding out t...

 

At age 31, Jeani Rhine wasn't thinking about breast cancer screenings.
"They tell you to start going for mammograms when you're 40," the Quarryville resident said. "But 31? Nobody does it then."
Fortunately, the wife and mother of four did self examinations, which is how she found the smal...