Hunting News
Earlier this week
- Trappers see ups and downs at Fur Harvester’s Auction in OntarioThe Fur Harvester’s Auction in North Bay, Ontario, was recently held on June 17-19, with some items bringing top dollar. Still, other prices were at residual ...
- New York trappers could see expanded fisher, marten seasonsThe New York State Department of Environmental Conservation recently announced proposals to adjust fisher and marten trapping seasons across most of the state. ...
- Paula Piatt honored after retirement from Pennsylvania Outdoor Writers AssociationFormer New York Outdoor News associate editor and ongoing contributing writer Paula Piatt received a number of accolades this past spring. Having recently retir...
- New York Mixed Bag: Summer boaters reminded to follow clean, drain, dry practicesAlbany — As the summer boating season begins its busiest stretch DEC reminds boaters of all types of vessels not to forget to take steps to protect New Yorkâ€...
- State Roundup: A mostly positive outlook for Wisconsin pheasant, ruffed grouse huntersWisconsin’s pheasant and ruffed grouse prospects for this fall came in from the DNR last week, with the news mostly positive for small game hunters. According...
- Wisconsin NRB OKs fish rule changes, including April trout openerThe Wisconsin Natural Resources Board (NRB), at its June 25 meeting, approved changes in several fishing regulations, including opening the inland trout fishing...
- Rule involving technology used for trapping needs review, says Wisconsin Natural Resources BoardThe Wisconsin Natural Resources Board (NRB) held off on adopting a rule proposed by the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) that would set standards for using...
- WI Daily Update: Make sure your boat meets Canadian AIS requirements before trying to cross the borderState natural resource agencies across the region are alerting traveling anglers that their watercraft and gear must meet Canadian aquatic invasive species requ...
- 7% bump in Wisconsin’s breeding duck numbers from ’24 may not tell the full storyTaylor Finger, game bird ecologist with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR), told attendees of a June 30 DNR Migratory Game Bird Advisory Commit...
- Dan Ladd: New York’s summer sport shows face challengesBehind the scenes at this and any newspaper is what we call an editorial calendar. It serves a number of purposes, one obviously being related to content that a...
- New York Letters to the Editor: No excuse for one hunter to shoot another hunterReader-submitted letters to the editor published in the July 11, 2025, edition of New York Outdoor News. The post New York Letters to the Editor: No excuse for ...
- Results are in from tournaments in western New YorkAnglers have prospered on the water and in the wallet at a number of big-time fishing tournaments held on Lake Erie and Lake Ontario. Clockwise, from top-left, ...
- New York loses Oneida Lake conservationist Tony Buffa after his death at age 83Tony Buffa, a longtime director on the Oneida Lake Association Board of Directors and one of Oneida Lake’s and Lake Ontario’s most respected fishing guides,...
- Conservation group makes $60M land deal to end mining threat outside Georgia’s Okefenokee SwampA conservation group said it has reached a $60 million deal to buy land outside the Okefenokee Swamp from a mining company that environmentalists spent years ba...
- Wisconsin’s Rock Lake walleyes not really rolling along, but bass doing OK in this Jefferson County waterbodyRock Lake is a deep, lowland, mesotrophic drainage lake in northwestern Jefferson County. It lies within the town of Lake Mills that sits on its eastern shoreli...