Outdoor News
Before 2025
- Pennsylvania’s Outdoor CalendarA look at upcoming outdoors-related events from across Pennsylvania published in the Oct. 11, 2024, edition of Outdoor News. The post Pennsylvania’s Outdoor C...
- Pennsylvania Cuffs & Collars: Coyote hunters busted without license, having loaded firearm in vehiclePennsylvania cuffs and collars are field reports from Wildlife Game Wardens and Waterways Conservation Officers. These reports are from the Oct. 11, 2024, editi...
- Pennsylvania Letters to the Editor: Missed the obviousReader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Oct. 11, 2024, edition of Pennsylvania Outdoor News. The post Pennsylvania Letters to the Editor: Missed...
- Notes off a soiled cuff: Time ticking to lift Sunday hunting ban in Pennsylvania this sessionJust before this issue went to press, the House Game and Fisheries Committee voted to move a bill that would lift the prohibition on Sunday hunting in Pennsylva...
- Bill Hilts, Jr.: New York’s St. Mary’s School of the Deaf adapts NASP process to bring archery to studentsSeptember was Deaf Awareness Month across the country. It’s only fitting to pay special recognition to an archery program at St. Mary’s School of the Deaf i...
- Here’s how to approach your new pup’s first season as a duck retrieverThere’s an interesting culture around duck hunting. It’s one of those pursuits in which there aren’t a lot of passive, weekend-warrior types. I guess in t...
- MN Daily Update: Celebrating 60 years of the Wilderness ActThe Wilderness Act has been in existence for 60 years. Today, the legislation protects over 111 million acres across 806 wilderness areas in 44 states. Here’s...
- WI Daily Update: Celebrating 60 years of the Wilderness ActThe Wilderness Act has been in existence for 60 years. Today, the legislation protects over 111 million acres across 806 wilderness areas in 44 states. Here’s...
- Tom Venesky: Anti-fur legislation a threat to us allTrappers are used to taking the brunt of animal welfare legislation that is introduced in state legislatures every so often. Most of the time, these misguided m...
- Commentary: All of Pennsylvania’s invasive species are not created equalAt what point should an invasive species be accepted or even celebrated as a part of our environment? Recent articles from this publication have my head spinnin...
- Urban fisher sightings in Pennsylvania show success of reintroduction efforts 30 years agoA fisher caught on camera in a suburban community of Pittsburgh made local news in recent weeks, but perhaps shouldn’t have come as a great surprise. Although...
- Pennsylvania’s Allegheny County club using homing pigeons to train dogsThe Pitcairn-Monroeville Sportsman’s Club in Pennsylvania is pressing homing pigeons into service to assist in the training of hunting dogs. The birds are per...
- Commentary: Reflecting on 60 years of the Wilderness Act, and the continued importance of protecting Minnesota’s Boundary WatersInextricable from Minnesota’s identity are the boreal forests and abundant fresh waters of our state. In particular, northeastern Minnesota hosts the Boundary...
- The joy of catching fall pike and preparing them for the pickling jarNorthern pike go by all sorts of derisive nicknames, and their emergence from the summertime depths can draw reactions like a child with high hopes for that las...
- The one thing you can bank on in hunting? Success is not guaranteedAnytime a hunter heads into the woods, the outcome of the hunt is never known. Savvy hunters wishing to put the odds in their favor spend hours preseason scouti...