Hunting News
Before 2025
- Sporting-related items to watch as budget countdown lies ahead in New YorkGov. Kathy Hochul’s 2024 fiscal year budget negotiations are under way as you read this. The one-house budget proposals, which are often negotiating chips for...
- Commentary: North American Wetlands Conservation Act receives record funding in OMNIBUSThe U.S. Congress passed legislation to fund the federal government, including funding for several critical conservation programs. Most notably, the North Ameri...
- New York Letters to the Editor: Crossbow hunters practice tooReader-submitted letters to the editor from the March 24, 2023 edition of New York Outdoor News. The post New York Letters to the Editor: Crossbow hunters pract...
- New York DEC: Wolf killed in 2021 was consuming a wild dietFurther testing conducted by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation indicates that a wolf shot mistakenly by a coyote hunter late in 2021 w...
- I BIRD New York Challenge gets under way with new formatThe I BIRD NY program was launched in 2017 to build on the State’s efforts to increase access to New York’s vast natural resources and promote no- and low-c...
- Town rejects more duck hunting at New York’s Vischer Ferry Nature & Historic PreserveA group of waterfowl hunters seeking to expand the duck hunting season at Vischer Ferry Nature & Historic Preserve, on the Mohawk River in Saratoga County have ...
- Special license exams coming up in New YorkThe New York State Department of Environmental Conservation recently announced that annual examinations for individuals seeking a license to practice the sport ...
- New York ranks 7th in fishing revenueAmerica’s 52.4 million anglers contribute $148 billion in economic output and support 945,500 jobs across the entire country, while also contributing $1.8 bil...
- New York to receive over $30 million from Pittman-Robertson and Dingell-Johnson funding for 2023The record-setting Wildlife Restoration Trust Fund, commonly known as Pittman-Robertson and Dingell-Johnson funding, is supported through excise taxes paid last...
- New York Mixed Bag: State’s annual residential brush burning ban now in effectOutdoor news items from across New York published in the March 24, 2023 edition of New York Outdoor News. The post New York Mixed Bag: State’s annual resident...
- New York’s Orange County D.A. holding annual youth fishing derby starting April 1Orange County District Attorney David M. Hoovler recently announced his office’s third annual Office Youth Fishing Derby, which begins April 1 and runs throug...
- Untraceable gun parts can’t be shipped to N.Y.Brian Barnes, an attorney for four companies named in the New York attorney general’s lawsuit, said he has no comment on the court order. The post Untraceable...
- Strategies for spring steelhead on Lake Erie tributariesBy the time spring comes around, the fish have spent months with fewer food sources, and most have released a major portion of their energy during the spawning ...
- New York Cuffs & Collars: Illegal keeping of 131 panfish in Hudson RiverField reports from New York DEC officers published in the March 24, 2023 edition of New York Outdoor News. The post New York Cuffs & Collars: Illegal keeping of...
- New York Outdoor CalendarA look at upcoming outdoor-related events happening across New York published in the March 24 edition of New York Outdoor News. The post New York Outdoor Calend...