DEER HUNTING

DEER HUNTING
Sportsmen Against Hunger Week to start
The SCI Foundation and Sportsmen Against Hunger-affiliated professional game meat processors and hunger relief organizations across the United States will host the second annual Sportsmen Against Hunger Week Sunday through Nov. 20.
The drive calls on sportsmen across North America to share their hunting and fishing bounty with the hungry in their communities.
Hunters unsure where to take their harvests for donation can access the SCI Foundation's online databases of licensed game processors and relief organizations across the United States that use wild game to assist local-area hungry. These easy-to-use databases are at www.sci-foundation.org/humanitarian/sah/ or www.sci-foundation.org/humanitarian/sah/ along with a downloadable PDF file of the Share Nature's Bounty trifold donation brochure.
Any meat processor or hunger relief organization willing to participate but is not listed in the Sportsmen Against Hunger databases should contact SCI Foundation Humanitarian Services Coordinator Allyson Garcia at (520) 620-1220, ext. 480; agarcia@safariclub.org.
As an added incentive, those donating five pounds or more of professionally processed meat directly to a relief organization and using an official Sportsmen Against Hunger "Share Nature's Bounty" donation form will be entered to win one of 50 Sako 75 rifles, worth about $1,365.
PENNSYLVANIA
Eagle access area closed
The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission will temporarily close its Bald Eagle Access Area in Clinton County to replace the launch ramp with a new cast-in-place concrete ramp.
The Bald Eagle Access provides public fishing and boating access to the Bald Eagle Creek. It is on Route 150, a mile west of Mill Hall. Boaters and anglers looking for alternative launch sites can visit the "County Guides" section of the PFBC's Web site at www.fish.state.pa.us.
Firewood pest warning targets deer hunters
With the approach of Pennsylvania's main deer hunting season and its influx of thousands of out-of-state hunters, the state's Department of Conservation and Natural Resources' Bureau of Forestry is combating the spread of forest insect pests by asking hunters to refrain from transporting firewood into the Commonwealth.
Usually visible from May to August, the adult emerald ash borer beetles are slightly less than an inch long, thin and bright metallic green in color. The beetle, which feeds in the tissues under the bark of ash trees, has claimed about 7 million trees in Michigan alone.