State Game Lands 267 Blair County
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ROAD CLASSIFICATION Secondary Highway Unimproved Road ! Electric Oil Pipeline; Gas Line Other Line l Phone ll Sewer Line; Water Line ± Trail !! Special Trails Stream IA Parking Area ²³F Food & Cover Crew HQ ²³G Garage L Headquarters l ²³O Other YY ²³S Storage l Gate YY Tower Site l l Food Plot Game Land Boundary Other Game Lands Wetland ! ! ! ! ! IAl! l ! ! ! ! PENNSYLVANIA GAME COMMSISSION STATE GAME LANDS 267 BLAIR COUNTY Feet 0 1900 3800 5700 7600 1 inch = 3,000 feet January 2014 Service Layer Credits: Copyright:© 2013 National Geographic Society, i-cubed State game land (SGL) 267 is located in Logan Township, Blair County 12/17/2012 SPORTSMEN'S RECREATION MAP in Wildlife Management Unit 4D and currently has a deeded acreage of 1,041 acres. Approximately 2,200 feet of Laurel Run, a cold water fishery, flows through SGL 267, and all water within this SGL is part of the Susquehanna watershed. The Game Commission currently maintains one public parking area on SGL 267, located on Skyline Drive. There are 0.95 miles of maintained administrative roads throughout SGL 267, providing for public access to this area by foot. The farthest point on SGL 267 by foot from a parking area or public road is approximately 0.75 miles. All roads are currently closed year-round to public motor vehicle traffic and access is controlled with locked gates. The gated roads and rights-of-way provide access for hunters and avenues for hiking, Each time a hunter buys a hunting license, the wildlife photography and bird-watching. money he spends goes toward many facets of wildlife management. Since 1920, close to a million STATE GAME LANDS State game land 267 is located on the Allegheny Front, the major and a half aces of State Game Lands have been No. 267 escarpment of the Allegheny Mountains in Pennsylvania, Maryland acquired with these funds. Each year nearly and West Virginia. The Allegheny Front delineates the Ridge-and- Valley Appalachians which lie to the east, from the Appalachian $7,000,000 is spent to improve wildlife habitat. BLAIR COUNTY Plateau (locally called the Allegheny Plateau) to the west. The Habitat improvements enhance living conditions for Allegheny Front is one of the windiest spots east of the Mississippi, a non-game birds and mammals as well as those fact encouraging the recent establishment of nearby wind energy species which are hunted. Pennsylvania hunters development. The topography of the game land is relatively level to willingly share these lands with the non-hunting rolling and ranges from a high point of 2,580 feet to around 2,300 public, and with few exceptions, State Game Lands feet maintaining this elevation and terrain to the north and to the are open for general use year round. Surveys south. Just off the eastern boundary, the elevation falls drastically, indicate that hunting accounts for only thirty-five dropping more than 1,150 feet. The western side of this game land percent of game land usage. The remaining sixty- has a much more gradual elevation decline, dropping about 550 feet five percent is used by the general public for non- to a low point along Laurel Run. 6 5 4 3 2 1 hunting purposes. Hunting and furtaking opportunities include white-tailed deer 253 SNYDER RD,19605 PA READING, SOUTHEAST REGIONAL HEADQUARTERS 3917 18612 PA MEMORIAL HWY, DALLAS, NORTHEAST REGIONAL HEADQUARTERS 8627 PENNWILLIAM HWY, HUNTINGDON, 16652PA SOUTHCENTRAL REGIONAL HEADQUARTERS 1566 S Route 44 Hwy NORTHCENTRAL REGIONAL HEADQUARTERS 15923PA 4820711, BOLICAR, ROUTE SOUTHWEST REGIONAL HEADQUARTERS 1509 Pittsburg Rd NORTHWEST REGIONAL HEADQUARTERS “Working Together for Wildlife” is a Game (Odocoileus virginianus), bear (Ursus americanus), turkey (Melagris Commission program providing everyone an gallopovo), ruffed grouse (Bonasa umbellus), and squirrel (Sciurus opportunity to help support wildlife management in spp.). Furtaking opportunities include raccoon (Procyon lotor), the areas for endangered and non-game animals. coyote (Canis latrans), gray fox (Urocyon cinereoargenteus), fisher (Martes pennanti), and bobcat (Lynx rufus). No stocking of ring- 16323PA FRANKLIN, , Monies derived from the “Working Together for 17740 PA SHORE, , JERSEY necked pheasant (Phasianus colchicus) occurs on the game land. Wildlife” Program are being used in Pennsylvania to There are no designated trails for horseback riding and mountain re-introduce the osprey, river otter, bald eagle, biking. Three gated roads and trails used for management activities peregrine falcon and provide habitat for other birds and the operation of communication towers and herbaceous FOR FURTHER INFORMATION and mammals indigenous to the Commonwealth. openings provide very nice avenues for hiking, bird watching, and CONTACT THE FOLLOWING: Construction placement of blue bird houses on State other similar forms of outdoor activities. Game Lands provides needed homes for this beautiful songbird. Islands in the Susquehanna River have been set aside as propagations areas for non- game shore birds. Numerous other projects are planned on State Game Lands and other public 610-926-3137 610-926-3136 570-675-1144 570-675-1143 814-643-1835 814-643-1831 570-398-4745 570-398-4744 724-238-9524 724-238-9523 814-432-3188 814-432-3187 COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA PENNSYLVANIA GAME COMMISSION.