Well, that d-bag Frein has screwed up not only the archery opener but all hunting in the search area until further notice. Excerpted from the Game Commission press release:

MANHUNT PLACES HUNTING SEASONS ON HOLD
Game Commission executive order temporarily halts hunting and trapping in seven townships.

The Pennsylvania Game Commission has temporarily closed all hunting and trapping seasons within seven townships in northeastern Pennsylvania, where the search continues for a fugitive wanted in the shooting death of a state police trooper.
Game Commission Executive Director R. Matthew Hough today issued an executive order to close temporarily the hunting and trapping seasons within Price, Barrett and Paradise townships in Monroe County; and Blooming Grove, Porter, Lehman and Greene townships in Pike County.
The townships all are within Wildlife Management Unit 3D.
The closure affects all private and public lands, including the portions of State Game Lands 180, 183 and 221 located within those townships. Those portions of game lands are closed to all public access while the executive order is in effect.
Hunting and trapping seasons will remain closed in the identified townships until the executive order is lifted, which will be announced by the Game Commission in a statewide news release that will be posted on the agency�s website at the time it is issued.
The closure was initiated after the Pennsylvania State Police advised on Tuesday that troopers who are part of the search for fugitive Eric Frein had uncovered explosive devices that apparently were left behind in wooded areas by the fugitive, and would pose an obvious danger to anyone who would encounter them.
Hough said the discovery of the devices, and the danger associated with the search effort in general, would pose too great a risk to hunters, trappers and members of the general public.

Full release: PGC News Release

I understand the concern if there are pipe bombs, booby traps, and jittery cops in the woods but damn it, it's hunting season.

What's to say there aren't other bombs that won't be found until who know's when? Adding more folks to the woods would put a hell of a lot of eyeballs out there and more pressure on Frein.

Sucks. (and I don't even hunt there)

Dale

come on over to the west side of the state, lots of good spots to pick from

Dale-yeah, that's a bad situation. 'Sure hope nobody stumbles onto one of the pipe bombs or booby traps he put out. I can see both sides. The guys want to hunt, but someone's gonna get lambasted big time if a hunter gets hurt by this kook over there.

I had a coversation about this yesterday. Someone said "they should ket those hunters go in there and get done in one day what the cops haven't done in two weeks"

My response was this. They aren't so much worried anout a hinter contacting Frein, as they are a hunter stumbling on a booby trap left for him. Let's face it we all think we are Hawkeye from the last of the Mohicans, sneaking through the woods, noticing every little broken stem of grass, when in reality most of us are more like Homer Simpson, repeatedly hitting our heads off of big branches..

The other thing about these searches is that they ain't law and order or criminal minds. In other words it aint over in a Hollywood hour. They have to be done methodically. And coordinated, not only to find the subject but to preserve any possible evidence.