From PA Game Commission
Pennsylvania’s hunters took 3,608 black bears in the 2020 seasons, the state’s sixth-best bear harvest ever.
While the harvest is about 20 percent lower than last year’s record harvest of 4,653 bears, it aligns with the annual average of 3,675 bears taken over the past five seasons, and it’s the second-highest harvest in that period.
In the bear archery season, which benefited from a one-week-longer season, bowhunters set a new harvest record of 948, breaking the former record of 561 set in 2019. Harvest numbers in the other bear seasons fell, which is not uncommon. The two-year-old muzzleloader/special firearms seasons harvest slipped from 1,340 to 1,038, the general firearms season harvest went from 1,629 to 1,170; and the extended season harvest, which typically is inconsistent, went from 1,117 to 432.
Bear harvest in 2020 was sixth best in Pennsylvania history
Updated Feb 02, 2021;
Posted Feb 02, 2021
Keith Davis shot a 610-pound male black bear in Monroe County during Pennsylvania s 2020 muzzleloader hunting season.
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Pennsylvania hunters killed 3,608 black bears during the 2020 hunting seasons, according to the Pennsylvania Game Commission.
While the 2020 harvest was about 20 percent lower than the record harvest of 4,653 bears in 2019, it still ranks as the state’s sixth best.
And, according to commission biologists, it aligns with the annual average of 3,675 bears taken over the past five seasons. It’s the second-highest harvest in that period.
Bowhunters, who had a one-week-longer archery hunting season for bears in 2020, set a harvest record of 948, breaking the record of 561 set in 2019.
Kalamazoo’s homicide victims of 2020 remembered
Updated Jan 04, 2021;
Posted Jan 01, 2021
(Top from left) Royalty Houston-Hooper, McKenna Dutkiewicz, Carmen Hughes, Londrell Cook, Cornelius Fredricks and Dondreal Watkins. (Bottom from left) DeVante Coleman, Brandon Kelley, Michael Clopton III, Rachel Curl, Victor Davis and Robert James Richardson Jr.
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There were more than 70
non-fatal shootings and 13 homicides due to gun violence within Kalamazoo city limits in 2020. Overall, there were 14 homicides in Kalamazoo: three in Portage, two in Kalamazoo Township, one in Oshtemo Township and one in Richland Township, bringing the countywide homicide count to 21.
The total surpasses the previous century mark of 20 homicides in 2016. That year, 11 of the 20 deaths occurred during two mass killings one in February when Uber driver Jason Dalton shot and killed six people and wounded two others, and one in June when Charles Pickett Jr. drove his truck into a group of
Published: December 19, 2020 • Mahoning Township and Cooper Township will take written comments for the next 30 days on the Draft Component 3M, which provides for sewer service to Jack.
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