Five months after 12-year-old Eli Borger of Palmerton, Pa., landed a whopper, the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission has confirmed what Borger has known all along. The golden rainbow trout he landed has set a new state record.

Borger caught the 13-pound, 8-ounce golden rainbow trout in Mahoning Creek, Schuylkill County, on the eastern regional opening day of trout season. The fish easily broke the previous record of 11 pounds, 10 ounces held since 1986 by R. W. Hafer of Erie.

Golden rainbows, often mistakenly called "palominos," are raised by the Fish and Boat Commission for their novelty value and stocked fully grown -- some at record or near-record sizes. PFBC fisheries biologist Tom Greene said about 9,000 golden rainbows will be stocked in the spring.

"Our goal isn't to produce the size of fish the young man recently caught," said Green. "He was lucky and landed a big one. We raise the goldens for approximately three years before stocking them at typical lengths of 15 to 22 inches."

But the record-size fish aren't growing to trophy sizes in the wild. At least three huge golden rainbows were reported caught this year -- all on the state's two regional opening days: Andrew Frantz of Dauphin County landed a 12.06-pound golden rainbow on March 29. Joe Hutchinson of New Florence, Pa. caught a 13-pound 4-ounce golden rainbow April 12 on Little Mahoning Creek.

Some 600 urban planners, designers and community leaders from around the United States and the world will gather at the Hilton Pittsburgh today through Tuesday to discuss ways to bring more greenspace into urban lives.

Hosted by the Pittsburgh Parks Conservency, the biennial International Urban Parks Conference is a important forum for parks professionals and advocates to discuss the state of the nation's city parks. The conference will bring together research experts, public officials and management innovators.

Keynote speakers will include environmental activist and author Theresa Heinz and Richard Louv, author of "Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature Deficit Disorder" (Algonquin). Find details at www.urbanparks08.org.

There are no signs this year of EHD, the deer disease that killed about 2,000 whitetails in Southwest Pennsylvania in 2007. Proportionally low archery and general season harvests in 2007 have resulted in larger deer this year, and the Game Commission reports that antler restrictions implemented in 2002 have led to a higher percentage of bucks 2 1/2 years and older.

Antlerless deer licenses are sold out in all WMUs except the following: 2A (55,000 allocated) 12,933 remaining; 2B (68,000) 47,955; 3B (43,000) 872; 5C (92,000) 6,960; 5D (22,000) 12,415. Find daily updates at www.pgc.state.pa.us.