Outdoors

The Outdoors Calendar publishes submitted information on hunting, fishing, hiking and other outdoors events. Email details to sports@lnpnews.com; send to LNP, Attn: Sports, P.O. Box 1328, Lancaster, PA 17608-1328; or call 717-291-8666.

The Pennsylvania Game Commission is preparing to boost its land holdings in northern Lancaster County, adding public hunting ground in an area where such lands see heavy use by hunters and nonhunters alike.

The Outdoors Calendar publishes submitted information on hunting, fishing, hiking and other outdoors events. Email details to sports@lnpnews.com; send to LNP, Attn: Sports, P.O. Box 1328, Lancaster, PA 17608-1328; or call 717-291-8666.

Thousands of Lancaster County residents year-round disperse into Pennsylvania’s 2.2 million acres of state forestland to hike, backpack, hunt from camps, fish, ride all-terrain vehicles, see elk bugle, ride snowmobiles, watch birds and other pursuits.

The Outdoors Calendar publishes submitted information on hunting, fishing, hiking and other outdoors events. Email details to sports@lnpnews.com; send to LNP, Attn: Sports, P.O. Box 1328, Lancaster, PA 17608-1328; or call 717-291-8666.

The Pennsylvania Senate and House of Representatives both have passed bills that would open the door for general Sunday hunting, ending a legislative ban here that has stood since the early 19th century.

The Outdoors Calendar publishes submitted information on hunting, fishing, hiking and other outdoors events. Email details to sports@lnpnews.com; send to LNP, Attn: Sports, P.O. Box 1328, Lancaster, PA 17608-1328; or call 717-291-8666.

Cicada chaser Dean Evans is back from a whirlwind 2,200-mile, 36-hour road trip through nine states in which he collected dozens of the crazy-looking bugs from two broods that last crawled out of the earth 13 and 17 years ago, respectively.

The Outdoors Calendar publishes submitted information on hunting, fishing, hiking and other outdoors events. Email details to sports@lnpnews.com; send to LNP, Attn: Sports, P.O. Box 1328, Lancaster, PA 17608-1328; or call 717-291-8666.

As Lancaster County baked in sweltering heat two weeks ago, with temperatures holding steady for days in the upper 90s, fields of snow covered north-facing slopes high in the Rocky Mountains.

The Outdoors Calendar publishes submitted information on hunting, fishing, hiking and other outdoors events. Email details to sports@lnpnews.com; send to LNP, Attn: Sports, P.O. Box 1328, Lancaster, PA 17608-1328; or call 717-291-8666.

“Let’s see what you got,” archaeologist Debbie Saylor said as Dash Kensington arrived at the Blue Rock Heritage Center near Washington Boro and began unloading carved stones, projectile points, pipes and pottery he and his cousin had collected over the last 40 years from islands and banks al…