Learn More About PA Game Lands
The Pennsylvania Game Commission is planning a series of driving tours through several state game lands in the coming weeks.
The tours are designed to help people learn more about opportunities available on game lands statewide, while showcasing how habitat work being done on these tracts benefits wildlife. All tours are free, held rain or shine, and open only to vehicles licensed for travel on public roads.
The tours start this Sunday, Sept. 21, on State Game Lands 51 in Fayette County. Future tours will be held on select game lands in Bedford, Berks, Bradford, Cambria, Dauphin, Elk, Huntingdon and Lycoming/Union counties.
A detailed schedule is available here.
These driving tours provide a good example of the opportunities available on game lands statewide, while showcasing how habitat work being done on these tracts benefits wildlife.
All tours are free, held rain or shine and open only to vehicles licensed for travel on public roads.
Sunday, Sept 28
State Game Lands 311, Elk County, 9 a.m. to noon.
This roughly 3.5-mile self-guided driving tour provides a peek behind the curtain on the elk range. The tour will start at the Winslow Hill Viewing Area in Benezette, then enter the game lands at the bottom of Dewey Road, continuing to Porcupine Road. Game Commission staff will be posted along the tour route. Among other highlights, the tour will showcase elk habitat management including the planting and maintenance of forage plots and the use of prescribed fire, early successional and aspen forest management, acid mine drainage treatment, grassland bird and American kestrel management, and recent infrastructure improvements including two different styles of Game Commission bridges. As a reminder, the tour is open only to PennDOT-registered vehicles. ATVs/UTVs are not permitted.
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