CENTRE COUNTY, Pa (WJAC) \u2014 Questions surrounding a potentially record-breaking elk harvest in Centre County are now being raised after authorities say two hunting guides involved were cited for trespassing.<\/p>\n
Weeks ago, we spoke with Michael Skvarla, of Port Matilda, who harvested a potentially record-breaking bull elk with the help of two guides from Trophy Rack Lodge.<\/p>\n
However, the Pennsylvania Game Commission says those guides have now been cited for allegedly trespassing on private property, which initially raised questions about whether or not this would affect Skvarla\u2019s elk score.<\/p>\n
While Skvarla himself was not cited for trespassing, he says he was assured by a game warden that he is permitted to keep the elk.<\/p>\n
The elk\u2019s antlers may set a new Pennsylvania state archery record after they complete a mandatory sixty-day drying period.<\/p>\n
In the meantime, the Pennsylvania Game Commission filed trespassing citations on October 7th against Skvarla\u2019s guide, Mike Conaway, of Port Matilda, and his caller, Abner Druckenmiller, of Milroy.<\/p>\n
A law enforcement supervisor for the Game Commission says that the agency was contacted by the landowner where the elk was harvested in Snow Shoe Township, who said the men did not have permission to be there.<\/p>\n
We reached out to the Trophy Rack Lodge for comment but have not yet heard back.<\/p>\n
Given that he himself won\u2019t be cited, Skvarla says he doesn\u2019t think that the situation should affect his possible claim to a new state record.<\/p>\n
Bob D\u2019Angelo, a scorer from the Pennsylvania Game Commission explains that he will have to find out how the law enforcement bureau in the Harrisburg headquarters wants to handle the situation.<\/p>\n
Again, Michael Skvarla, the man who harvested the elk, was not cited.<\/p>\n
Both guides who were cited are scheduled to have a summary trial on November 19th in Philipsburg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CENTRE COUNTY, Pa (WJAC) \u2014 Questions surrounding a potentially record-breaking elk harvest in Centre County are now being…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-308287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}