Outdoor News
Earlier this year
- Bird flu detected in Darke County, more being testedNearly a million chickens in Darke County, Ohio, tested positive for Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI), commonly known as bird flu, the National Veterina...
- U.S. Supreme Court rejects Utah case on transfer of federal landsThe U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a lawsuit by the State of Utah that sought to transfer 18.5 million acres of federal public lands to state control. Th...
- More than 17,000 deer killed in bonus gun huntHunters across Ohio checked 17,373 white-tailed deer on Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 21-22, during the state’s additional weekend of deer gun hunting, according ...
- Ohio Letters to the Editor: No sense in banning baiting for deer as suggested hereReader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Jan. 17, 2025, edition of Ohio Outdoor News. The post Ohio Letters to the Editor: No sense in banning ba...
- Ohio’s Trailblazers: For Shannon Mayes, hunting, fishing come full circleShannon Mayes can’t really remember a time when he wasn’t into hunting and fishing. The Gallipolis, Ohio, native, a middle school teacher by trade, has been...
- On safe ice, Sugar Lake sweet for panfish, bassJust as limiting is that much of this natural, 90-acre lake is rimmed by private residences. You can fish it from a boat – that’s your best option – and t...
- Star Watch: How did our moon get there?Did you ever wonder where the Moon came from? Is it where it is by chance; is there a story to be told; or can science give us the answer? NASA tells us that ou...
- Pennsylvania’s Outdoor CalendarA look at upcoming outdoors-related events from across Pennsylvania published in the Jan. 17, 2025, edition of Pennsylvania Outdoor News. The post Pennsylvaniaâ...
- Pennsylvania Cuffs & Collars: Several plead guilty to having loaded firearms in vehicles, baitingPennsylvania cuffs and collars are field reports from Wildlife Game Wardens and Waterways Conservation Officers. These reports are from the Jan. 17, 2025, editi...
- Taste of the Wild: Charlie’s chili is a terrific choiceContributor Eileen Clarke has a friend who is a rifle maker named Charlie Sisk who originally gave her the basis of this recipe that now bears his name and cert...
- Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission is recruiting new class of officer traineesThe State Civil Service Commission will accept applications through Feb. 3. The class of trainees will undergo a comprehensive training program at various train...
- Crawford County forester wins Pennsylvania’s Aldo Leopold awardTroy Firth, of Spartansburg, has been selected as the 2024 Pennsylvania Leopold Conservation Award recipient. The $10,000 award honors farmers and forestland ow...
- Pennsylvania Letters to the Editor: ATVs on public land a bad ideaReader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Jan. 17, 2025, edition of Pennsylvania Outdoor News. The post Pennsylvania Letters to the Editor: ATVs o...
- College student gets 17th Maryland Master Angler awardDombrowski’s qualifying catches, in order, were: Bullhead catfish – 17 inches, sheepshead – 23 inches, carp – 39 inches, bluefish- 34 inches, striped ba...
- First hunter-killed bear in Pennsylvania’s Lancaster County was taken illegally, PGC saysThe first black bear known to ever have been harvested in Lancaster County, Pa., was killed illegally in Drumore Township in early December, according to the Pe...