Thought I would go back and get a couple shots of what is left of the first school for conservation officers in the USA for those of you who do not live nearhere and maybe have never seen the site....

From the 1960s until I move here I can rememebr going back there to visit and watch the trainees...
In my humble opinion it NEVER should have been moved to "the city "

That is a crime! All that history and nothing left to show for it.
I have been told though by someone in the know that there is a move on to reconstruct one of the old buildings from photographs and it will house a museum of donated historical items related to the school from retired WCO's.
Now "THAT" would be something worth helping out with.
Even if you dont agree with everything the Game Comm. does if your a hunter you should be proud of the fact that Pa. was the first in the nation to have such a training program.
If anyone wants to read about the history of the Game. Comm. and it's officers no one tells it any better than retired WCO Bill Bower in his series of books:
State Officer and Guns or Game
One Man in Green
Working in God's Wild Garden
All The Men in Green
When you read what some of those guys had to go through back in the days it will amaze you. Great reading folks and I highly recomend them all.

Contact Bill at:
Bill Bower
153 Redington Ave.
Troy, Pa. 16947

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I've seen pictures of the old game school.  It looked like an intersting place.  I know the shooting ranges with all the cut stone is something else.  I've never figured out what the brick building on the way to manners dam is.
           I hear that the rifle range is being worked on.
        Doc,  did you check out the area they lumbered off on the way to the game school?

Not sure which area ... the main road ???


They are NOT WORKING on the rifle range...

IT has been CLOSED..... and no plans to re-open in the future... same with the pistol range...

Don't use them... WCO is on the look out

I'll haqve to let Brian know that the rifle range was closed.  I was hoping they were just fixing them.  
    The area that they logged was on both sides of Game school rd.  It goes up quite a ways up the service rd towards the  deer exclosure on the top of the ridge.  It kind of caught me by surprise last deer season.  

When we were in Brockway last weekend for the 4th we went through the Brockway museum.  There was a display case in the museum dedicated to the Old Game School.

I also walked up the service road where they had a lot of logging this past year.  I noticed a lot of stump sprouts(maple?) but not much of anything else growing yet.  dd