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Post by biggtrout on Feb 7, 2008 0:26:56 GMT -4
Its interesting to read about The PGC doing an excellent job with habitat management and food plots. Must vary widely across the state. In areas I am familiar with - mostly Cambria, Bedford, Blair, Centre and Clearfield Counties, I can honestly say the only evidence of habitat improvement I ever saw was on SGL 176 - the Grouse Study Area. Other than that, the food plots I've seen were nothing more than grassy openings with sparse clover and orchard grass - and edge cuttings and pole timber thinnings non-existant.
I often wonder why The PGC could not allow local sportsmen groups to "adopt" SGL's and pitch in with these efforts........
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Post by jakebird on Feb 7, 2008 5:58:14 GMT -4
It's even worse down here in 5A/ 5B. Nearly all of the game lands are managed as pheasant habitat....now that's real important to spend money on useless habitat like that as there are only pheasants in it for about 4 weeks a year....the dumb stocked birds that get shot or eaten within 72 hours of being released. Couldn't they just release them into the woods or along the road? Until they conduct an extensive trap and transfer of WILD birds from the midwest our pheasants will never amount to anything ever again other than an expensive canned hunt. A terrible waste to maintain such good pheasant cover and no wild pheasants? SGL 243 is a prime example of this...there are a few deer there...mostly though it's pheasant fields and no pheasants marked by an occasional small patch of woods and one decent wooded ridge that gets the hell hunted out of it.
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Post by cmreed on Feb 7, 2008 10:28:54 GMT -4
Our game lands 36 where I hunt is the same way. It basicaly is a good place to get hay fever for that is all that is planted there. The other thing is some of you guys posted about apple trees and crabapple trees, well let me tell ya we had a place that was only about 75 yards off the road that had about 15-20 apple trees on 36 that my father and myself harvested many decent bucks from. About 2 years ago we noticed they were loging a section of the game lands out, great! but then we saw the flippen idiots put there landing to load the logs where the nice apple trees used to be. Now don't tell me they where clearing out the habbitate to acommidate for better deer habitate!
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Post by algerine on Feb 20, 2008 10:55:08 GMT -4
Many new equipment purchases came from Growing Greener money.
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Post by Twowithone on Feb 20, 2008 17:29:37 GMT -4
algerine can you give me a link to this.
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Post by skwirl on Feb 20, 2008 18:54:00 GMT -4
Dont Know about any links ....but last week I was at the local John Deere dealer and a PGC flat bed was pulling out with a brand new tractor strapped to it
Now I dont know if it was purchased or donated ...........but it was brand spankin new
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Post by mrlongbeard on Feb 20, 2008 21:40:02 GMT -4
my bother-in-law runs the sgl's in indiana co. he has new equipment that WE PAID FOR. so the money isn't that bad. just like any company money comes from different funds
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Post by bear560 on Feb 28, 2008 15:40:16 GMT -4
We have some areas here in 2g that say PGC habitat management program, but all it is, is a 1/2 acre field with trees in tubes that have died and the grasses have over taken them
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Post by firefightnlife on Feb 28, 2008 15:41:41 GMT -4
i know a couple places like this and they are a joke
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