Contact: Brent Miller, Senior Director, Northeastern States
On July 23, the Pennsylvania Board of Game Commissioners voted on several matters of interest to Pennsylvania’s sportsmen and women.
Notably, the Board unanimously improved a measure to significantly increase their support for Pennsylvania based Hunters Sharing the Harvest (HSH), a non-profit organization that secures and processes game meat donations and provides them to food banks throughout the state. For several years the Board provided $20,000 in support to the organization to assist with processing costs and other expenses, but they increased it to $55,000 this year to help out with rising costs. In 2018, HSH set a record by processing and distributing more than 150,000 pounds of venison.
Some of the additional items that were considered and approved at the recent meeting include:
The Board also adopted a resolution in support of the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act (RAWA), which has recently been introduced in Congress.
For additional details on the meeting and the language of the RAWA resolution please visit the Pennsylvania Game Commission’s website.
Studies conducted at both the state and federal level have found that the number of hunters and trappers have been on a generally declining trend over the past several decades. To increase recruitment, retention, and reactivation (R3) of hunters and trappers, which initiative do you think would have the greatest impact?
