The agency is most certainly responsible for the decline in small game. They are obligated to manage for Game. That's their job. One million four hundred thousand (1,400,000) acres are titled "GAME LANDS," not Tweety Bird Lands or Timber Lands!

The agency made only one attempt to do anything to save pheasant hunting by introducing the schuan pheasants. The program failed but through no fault of the PGC. The birds just didn't take. Since that time (90's) the agency never made another effort to reintroduce Wild Birds. Only just recenty have they been MINIMALLY involved with the effort to reintroduce wild birds. The LEADERS of the program are the Tri-County Pheasants Forever Chapter, California University of PA and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. Please note the PGC contributes NO MONEY to the program. Cal DuBrock has deliberately neglected to budget for the program.

*It should be noted that the Wild Pheasant Reintroduction Program is enjoying some very real success. Call them "ditch chickens" if you like, but nearly every PA hunter cut his teeth hunting these fine game birds.

Pennsylvania has a Grouse program and a Grouse Study (on the PGC website) that states PA could have grouse numbers that would rival Mich., Minn., and Upstate NY if they would comply with the provenpractices spelled out in the study, most notably successional cuttings. Thestudy is in it's 31st year and as yet has not been implimented in any other area other than the study area (Game lands 176). The PGC doesn't want to talk about the success of this Grouse Study.
HOW LONG DO WE HAVE TO WAIT?

That tells me that the PGC is interested only in a state that hunts deer and turkey. Oh, I forgot about the Lawn Elk.

Say what you want, the facts speak for themselves. This agency and it's current Executive staff aren't the least bit concerned about small game.