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Pennsylvania Game Commission director highlights land gains, habitat work, shooting-range grants and Sunday hunting outcomes
Summary
Director Smith presented the Game Commission's 02/24/25 annual report, citing more than 7,000 acres acquired, 30,000+ acres of habitat improvements, expansion to 75 public shooting ranges, $300,000 awarded to 11 shooting clubs, growth in game warden ranks to 155 officers, and a game fund balance drawn from about $460M to just over $430M.
Director Smith delivered an abbreviated presentation of the Pennsylvania Game Commission's 02/24/25 annual report to the House Game and Fisheries Committee, outlining land acquisitions, habitat management, grants, research, law-enforcement staffing and the agency's financial position.
Smith said the commission added "over 7,000 acres," including parcels near Downtown Pittsburgh and Downtown Harrisburg that opened previously landlocked areas to public game lands. He said the agency improved "more than 30,000 acres of habitat" over the past year through wetland restoration, planning herbaceous openings, timber harvest and managing more than 11,000 acres with prescribed fire, including what he described as the largest prescribed burn in agency history on State Game Land 108.
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