HollowWatcher
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I have spent a large amount of time outdoors in Bradford County. I have grown up (outdoors speaking) in Bradford County! It's where I learned how to be a conservationist and a hunter. Consequently, It's where I spend most of my time outdoors now and will in the future!
Something great is happening here during the last few years and that is the purpose of this thread..to highlight what is taken place. This county has always been a top destination for outdoorsman beacause of the variety of opportunities it offers! I remember overhearing some of the conversations that my uncle and father use to have about camp and the one thing that always stuck in my mind was when they would say "the only thing missing up here is the pheasant hunting". They would see them occasionally but not like they thought they should. That sparked their interest and soon mine as I became older and over the years we began exploring more of the county and reading local papers and old reports from the Game Commission. We covered a lot of ground over the years and spoke to a bunch of people and began to know the county well. What we found suprised us..pheasant's use to call the county home..in fact the state ranked some areas of the county as Class A pheasant range! What we also learned that was people were still seeing pheasants..they couldn't tell us much about them because they would see them occasionally and quite honestly not on their radar! While we didn't learn much about the birds..we really didn't care..we just happy that people were seeing them! We too also began to see birds during our travels!
The one thing that we did know though was that the land looked like pheasants..we saw way more habitat up here than we did any where else in the state..and we been to some really good areas! Idle farms and reverting farmfields are commonplace up here and that is only getting better!
That was then..let me tell you about the now! Over the last few years Pa has enjoyed a gas boom..Bradford County especially! Farmers and Landowners are now enjoying the benefits of the gas boom and letting their farms idle and in return creating habitat! It's actually a great sight to behold..we are to often so use to seeing barren land..when you see fields growing and farmfields reverting it's a very cool sight! The birds have enjoyed this boom and are becoming more of a common sight around the county! Most likely holdovers at this point but still a beautiful sight! Every year we head up to camp to do some habitat work in the spring and over the last few years we have have heard roosters crowing!
Bradford County gets my vote for the location of the next WPRA and I will do my best to get up some pictures on here of what Bradford County looks like and the type of habitat we have here! It will be an ongoing thread to document the potential here!
Something great is happening here during the last few years and that is the purpose of this thread..to highlight what is taken place. This county has always been a top destination for outdoorsman beacause of the variety of opportunities it offers! I remember overhearing some of the conversations that my uncle and father use to have about camp and the one thing that always stuck in my mind was when they would say "the only thing missing up here is the pheasant hunting". They would see them occasionally but not like they thought they should. That sparked their interest and soon mine as I became older and over the years we began exploring more of the county and reading local papers and old reports from the Game Commission. We covered a lot of ground over the years and spoke to a bunch of people and began to know the county well. What we found suprised us..pheasant's use to call the county home..in fact the state ranked some areas of the county as Class A pheasant range! What we also learned that was people were still seeing pheasants..they couldn't tell us much about them because they would see them occasionally and quite honestly not on their radar! While we didn't learn much about the birds..we really didn't care..we just happy that people were seeing them! We too also began to see birds during our travels!
The one thing that we did know though was that the land looked like pheasants..we saw way more habitat up here than we did any where else in the state..and we been to some really good areas! Idle farms and reverting farmfields are commonplace up here and that is only getting better!
That was then..let me tell you about the now! Over the last few years Pa has enjoyed a gas boom..Bradford County especially! Farmers and Landowners are now enjoying the benefits of the gas boom and letting their farms idle and in return creating habitat! It's actually a great sight to behold..we are to often so use to seeing barren land..when you see fields growing and farmfields reverting it's a very cool sight! The birds have enjoyed this boom and are becoming more of a common sight around the county! Most likely holdovers at this point but still a beautiful sight! Every year we head up to camp to do some habitat work in the spring and over the last few years we have have heard roosters crowing!
Bradford County gets my vote for the location of the next WPRA and I will do my best to get up some pictures on here of what Bradford County looks like and the type of habitat we have here! It will be an ongoing thread to document the potential here!
