May 5, 2005

By Steve Piatt Editor Westmoreland, N.Y. – Chronic wasting disease has found its way into New York’s wild deer herd, weeks after five cases were detected in a pair of captive herds in the central part of the state. A positive CWD sample was taken from a yearling whitetail during an intensive collection effort launched […]

By Paula Piatt Associate Editor Albany – They want to hear from you. They want your ideas, your gripes and your praises. They know the outdoorsmen and women can make a difference in the outdoors of New York. That’s why the newly formed Assembly Republican Task Force on Hunting and Fishing will be taking to

By Steve Piatt Editor Saranac Lake, N.Y. – You’ll have to forgive Robert Dora Jr. if he doesn’t sound too excited about catching a new potential state record brook trout. Maybe it’s because he already has a bigger one hanging on his wall. Dora, a 34-year-old Saranac Lake resident who grew up fishing for back-country

By Steve Piatt Editor Albany – A Southern Zone deer hunting proposal, revised for the third – and likely final – time by the DEC, shortens the archery season by as many as six days, the statewide bowhunters’ group contends. That’s why New York Bowhunters, as it has the previous two proposals, opposes the latest