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Hunters and Huntresses, Fishermen and Fisherladies! I'd like to get a roll call of fellow FReepers who have an innate love of the sports of fishing and hunting. The two sports which bring men and women closer to nature and God's planet than anything else. More specifically, fishers and hunters in the Western New York and Northwestern Pennsylvania region. This beautiful stretch of land encompasses the midwestern portion of Pennsylvania near Oil City, up past the Kinzua Dam on the Alleghany Reservoir in historic Warren, PA, northward into New York State, past the 21-mile long Chautauqua Lake in Chautauqua County....

After standing tall across the Kinzua Gorge for more than a century, 11 towers on the Kinzua Viaduct went crashing into the valley below around 3:15 p.m. Monday. "It appears as though a high gust of wind or a tornado has hit," said Steven Brode of W.M. Brode Construction Co., the contractors hired by the state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources to renovate the structurally-deteriorating viaduct. "The bridge has sustained some damage," said Donald Main, assistant director of the Bureau of State Parks, early Monday afternoon. He added that crews were headed to the scene to evaluate the damage,...