State Game Lands Habitat Management

Find more information on where to hunt, shooting ranges, and designtated routes.

The Pennsylvania Game Commission and Ducks Unlimited have partnered to improve 1,600 acres of wetland habitats on 61 state game lands across Pennsylvania.

Find information on Oil and Gas Development Bids on SGLs.

Electric utility rights-of-way (ROW) are prominent features on the Pennsylvania landscape. Most notable are the 100—200 foot, 230 and 500 kV transmission lines that transport electric-ity from generation stations to substations across the state. These features pose challenges and opportunities for wildlife habitat management.

A prescribed fire, or prescribed burn, is an organized, coordinated effort that works to apply fire at the right place, at the right time, and at the right intensity to improve the health and resilience of forests, grasslands and shrublands. Click here to view more information about prescribed fires.

The Spongy Moth (formerly the Gypsy Moth) was accidentally introduced into Massachusetts in 1869 by a French scientist trying to find a disease-resistant caterpillar to increase the output of silk. Since first being detected in Pennsylvania in Luzerne and Lackawanna counties in 1932, the spongy moth has wreaked havoc on Pennsylvania’s forests, killing millions of oak trees along the way.  

The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) and the Pennsylvania Game Commission (PGC) manage a combined 3.8 million acres of mostly forested public lands for many uses and values, including wildlife habitat. Forest management strategies and uses for these lands include removing timber and prescribed burns, both of which have the potential to impact bats using foraging, roosting, maternity colony, spring staging, fall swarming and migratory habitat in Pennsylvania, including the federally endangered Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis) and the federally threatened northern long-eared bat (Myotis septentrionalis).