Here's whatthe unedited text of Mrs. Palone's biography from the PGC website actually says:

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A native of Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, and a lifelong hunting and fishing enthusiast, Palone is a rural development specialist for the Economic Action Programs with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Prior to that, she served as a watershed specialist for the USDA and is best known as the co-editor of the "Chesapeake Bay Riparian Handbook." She is a recipient of the 1997 Mid-Atlantic Resource Conservation and Development Association Partnership Award.

From 1974 through 1977, Palone served in the U.S. Marine Corps and was honorably discharged at the rank of Sergeant. She served at the Marine Corps Air Station in Yuma, Arizona, after graduating first in her class at Disbursing School, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.

Palone received her master's degree in forest management from West Virginia University, Morgantown, in 1988. She received her bachelor's degree in biology, graduating cum laude, from Glenville State College, West Virginia, in 1986.

Palone is a life member of the National Rifle Association; the Second Amendment Foundation; the Western Gateway Chapter of the Society of American Foresters; the Pennsylvania Forestry Association; the Pennsylvania Association of Conservation Districts; the Southern Alleghenies Conservancy, Bedford County; the Waynesburg Sportsman Association, Greene County; the Greene County Chapter of the Izaak Walton League; and Three Rivers Detachment, Marine Corps League.
Palone lives in Kirby with her husband, Vincent.

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Sorry for the digression, but I don't like to seethings taken out of context or parsedto suit one's purpose, or spuntogive a false impression. Although such things are the trademark of one who has been mentioned here.;O)

Not sure wherePalone killedthenicebuck she gotlast season, but judging by the pic that I saw of it,anyone here would've been proud to have tagged the rascal.