By law, when you buy Pa. licenses, a portion of the fees go into three legally mandated dedicated habitat improvement funds ($2.00, $1.25 and $3.00 respectively). Perhaps some of you remember that the last license increase included the creation of that new $3.00 habitat fund and that the increase was sold to hunters who thought that they would be getting more habitat for game. I recall our local WCO coming to our club and making that exact point and asking us to support the last license increase (which we did).
There have always been millions of dollars available every year for habitat improvement projects and that the only reason they are not done is because the PGC applies these dedicated funds to the costs of timbering -- Enron accounting at its best!
These funds, plus the millions in Pittman-Robinson reimbursements, are available every year. There is no shortage of money for habitat improvement; there is, however, a shortage of will to spend it where it will do the most good.
The next time someone tells you that the PGC is underfunded and needs money for habitat work, ask them what happened to the habitat money from the last increase.