The very first article I had published in New York Outdoor News was during the summer of 2005, the publication’s first year. It was a news story about a dam breach at Hadlock Pond, in my hometown of Fort Ann, in Washington County. I don’t know how now-retired Editor Steve Piatt found me, but looking back, I’m sure glad he did.
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Usually fishing at night, they target sharks swimming just beyond the surf zone.
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Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the July 28, 2023 edition of New York Outdoor News.
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Two different styles of fishing tournaments helped to christen the month of June on Lake Ontario, forcing teams to enact unique strategies and fishing tactics to earn a victory during a time when the body of water is undergoing a transition of sorts.
On June 2-3, the Niagara County ports of Wilson and Olcott in New York took center stage for the Skip Hartman Memorial Lake Ontario Pro-Am Salmon Team Tournament.
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The N.Y. State Department of Environmental Conservation recently announced that a common parasite and a bacteria contributed to a large fish die-off in Seneca Lake. DEC Fisheries staff collected samples of alewife, a forage fish, after being notified on June 20, about the lake-wide die-off.
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As the summer season approached, New York Outdoor News reported that several Northeastern wildlife agencies, including New York, had issued public warnings regarding summer bear activity. Those warnings and predictions have come to fruition. Across the region and beyond, black bear/human encounters are on the rise, with some reported instances being of dangerous proportions.
And it’s not just bears: both coyote and bobcats have had brushes with people this summer. What follows is a summary of some of these reports.
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation is seeking public comment through Sept. 15 on the draft Adirondack Foothills Unit Management Plan that will guide the recreational usage of six State Forest tracts in Oneida and Herkimer counties that lie just outside the Adirondack Park.
New York DEC seeks public comments on draft Adirondack Foothills UMP Read More »
U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland visited the Northeast recently, traveling to New York and Vermont in support of President Joe Biden’s clean energy and climate crisis initiatives.
In Albany, Sec. Haaland and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Director Liz Klein joined New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and Rep. Paul Tonko at the Port of Albany to tour the site of a new offshore wind energy hub, being developed in partnership with industry, state and local government leaders, will serve the offshore wind supply chain being developed off the shores of New York City, Long Island and New Jersey.
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New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Wildlife Biologist Matthew Palumbo, PhD, has built a career researching birds. Currently he works in DEC’s Avian Diversity Unit studying non-game bird species.
Palumbo is curious about bird behaviors and patterns and has followed this curiosity all around the country and even beyond. But Palumbo did not always have such a clear mission. He was once just a kid with a vague interest in the outdoors.
Ask a scientist: New York DEC avian biologist Matthew Palumbo Read More »
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