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address the outlined conservation actions
for these species. Every Pennsylvanian
benefits when the state has healthy and
accessible fish and wildlife.
"Pennsylvanians support the Game
Commission's efforts to conserve the 480
species under our jurisdiction, particularly
threatened and endangered species, and
their habitats," explained Game Commission Executive Director Bryan Burhans.
"The Pennsylvania Wildlife Action Plan,
our statewide blueprint for conservation of
imperiled species, outlines what we need
to do - together - over the next 10 years
to move the needle in the right direction.
We know what to do. We just need the

financial means to do it."
The legislation would establish dedicated funding - eliminating increases in
taxpayer costs and regulatory oversight -
to help keep troubled species from reaching state and federal endangered species
lists. The need is obvious. But without
adequate support from Americans and the
legislators who represent them, this latest
effort to help this continent's beleaguered
species of greatest conservation need will
again fall short of the finish line.
To get involved, Pennsylvanians are
asked to contact their legislators in the
U.S. House of Representatives and the
U.S. Senate and ask them to get behind
the Recovering America's Wildlife Act
(H.R. 4647). The message is: America's
conservation of imperiled wildlife is
inadequate, and this legislation would
accomplish much good for them. Visit
OurNatureUSA.com to learn more.

Game Commission suspends seedling sales

Conifer failure creates shortage, agency hopes to resume sales next year.

Tree and shrub seedlings from the
Pennsylvania Game Commission's Howard Nursery will not be offered for sale to
the public in 2018 due to drastically low
inventories.
Seedlings will continue to be supplied to participants in the Seedlings for
Schools Program, as well as to landowners who open their lands to public hunting
through the Game Commission's Hunter
Access Program, but there are too few
seedlings to offer for public sale.
The Game Commission hopes to resume seedling sales to the public in 2019.
The existing seedling shortage is due to
germination failure in a couple of conifer
species.
The Game Commission's annual
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seedling sale - a way to benefit wildlife
statewide by improving habitat - has been
popular with the public. Sales typically
open in mid-January, and the variety of
seedling offered varies from year to year.
Game Commission Executive Director Bryan Burhans acknowledged many
will be disappointed with the suspension
of seedling sales to the public, but staff
is working to build inventory in hopes
the existing shortage will result only in a
one-year layoff.
"And in 2018, Pennsylvania's state
game lands as well as the Seedlings for
Schools and Hunter Access programs
will continue to receive seedlings that
make for better wildlife habitat statewide,"
Burhans said.
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