OHIO



OHIO
Special deer seasonto start in S.E. Ohio
ATHENS -- The special early muzzleloader deer hunting season will open Monday and run through next Saturday at three public hunting areas in southeastern Ohio, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife.
The areas include Salt Fork Wildlife Area in Guernsey County, Shawnee State Forest in Scioto and Adams counties, and Wildcat Hollow in Athens, Perry and Morgan counties.
During this special season, only antlered deer may be harvested. Only one antlered deer may be harvested in Ohio during the hunting year, regardless of which deer hunting season it is taken. Last year, hunters took 177 antlered deer during the early muzzleloader season on these special areas.
Hunters must have a valid Ohio hunting license and special deer permit. Urban deer permits are not valid for this special muzzleloader season. Legal hunting hours are one half-hour before sunrise to sunset.
Hunters may use crossbows, longbows, muzzleloading rifles of at least .38 caliber or larger, or muzzleloading shotguns of 10, 12, 16, 20, 28 or .410 gauge, using one ball per barrel.
Hunting for wild turkey and all other wildlife species, except coyote, wild boar and waterfowl is prohibited on these three public hunting areas during the special muzzleloader deer hunting season. For further information, refer to the 2004-05 Ohio Hunting Regulations, available where licenses are sold.
PENNSYLVANIA
Bird atlas help sought
The Pennsylvania Game Commission and Carnegie Museum of Natural History are looking for casual and avid bird-watchers to help monitor nesting wild birds for the 2nd Pennsylvania Breeding Bird Atlas.
The 2nd Pennsylvania Breeding Bird Atlas is the most extensive survey of the state's nesting birds attempted. Started this spring, the grid-based survey will continue for the next five years and aims to track the changes that have occurred in bird populations since the first atlas was completed in 1989. Since that time, eagles, ospreys and peregrine falcons have expanded their breeding numbers substantially. Also of interest will be charting whether the long-term declines of many songbirds reported in the first atlas continues.
Individuals interested in volunteering for Atlas survey work are asked to register on the Atlas Web site at www.pabirdatlas.org, or call Atlas project coordinators at (724) 593-6022.

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