Hunting News
Before 2025
- Unique lend-a-pole program in New York casts off in Ulster CountyThanks to the Federated Sportsmen’s Clubs of Ulster County, and state Sen. Peter Oberacker (R/C – Schenevus), young anglers can now borrow a fishing pole ju...
- Supreme Court to hear NRA appeal over insurance denialsThe Supreme Court on Nov. 3 said it would hear an appeal from the National Rifle Association over comments from a former New York state official who urged banks...
- Lake Champlain Institute in New York secures funding for programs, new vesselThe Lake Champlain Research Institute (LCRI) has secured roughly $2 million in grants for several projects, including ongoing monitoring of the lake and a brand...
- New York Mixed Bag: Deer escapes from St. Lawrence County captive deer facilityThe New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Region 6 announced that a white-tailed deer recently escaped from a facility in the town of Gouverne...
- New York Letters to the Editor: Gun owners who don’t vote have only themselves to blameReader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Nov. 17, 2023, edition of New York Outdoor News. The post New York Letters to the Editor: Gun owners who...
- News items regarding wolves out of Michigan and Wisconsin should be considered of interest to New York’s sporting communityWhen I was a kid, my parents had two cameras with which we took family photos. One was a Polaroid Instamatic that in the late 1970s was the coolest thing becaus...
- A strange deer harvest from Minnesota’s gun season: Is it a buck, or is it a doe?Rod Host was sitting in his deer stand within a stretch of timber north of Long Prairie in central Minnesota on the morning of Nov. 4 when he noticed a group of...
- Wisconsin Letters to the Editor: Another good wild rice recipeReader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Nov. 17, 2023, edition of Wisconsin Outdoor News. The post Wisconsin Letters to the Editor: Another good...
- Commentary: Rural Wisconsin towns left with aftermath of unmanaged wolf populationsIn 1974 when the gray wolf was officially listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act (ESA), there were only about 750 wolves in the Great Lakes regio...
- Commentary: Former Wisconsin DNR Secretary Adam Payne looks back on year with DNRIn this season of reflection, I am grateful for all the accomplishments of the Wisconsin DNR over the past year. It has been an honor and privilege to lead this...
- Wisconsin State Roundup: Report any black bear den sites you see this fall, winterThe DNR is asking hunters to report any black bear den sites they find this fall and winter to boost the success of a black bear reproduction and diet study tha...
- Where to go for big crappies in Wisconsin? Try Windigo near HaywardThe Hayward DNR fisheries team ran a quick spring electrofishing survey along four miles of Windigo Lake shoreline on June 6, 2021, to take a look at largemouth...
- Gear & Gadgets: Gear to help make your life outdoors easierSiren Marine’s Connected Boat ® system makes your boating experience even better and more secure. Control lights, A/C and other systems and access digital sw...
- Nature smart: Photographing beluga whalesIn the past when I traveled to the Arctic to film polar bears, I always visited during the winter, or at least when there was snow on the ground. After all, cap...
- Backyard and beyond: Hasta La Vista, AutumnThis handsome osprey “caught breakfast on his third try,” said photographer Marguerite Eichelberger. Not bad, considering that osprey have been found to be ...