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September 15, 2026

Commentary: Changing forest management in the Adirondacks is concerning

Featured, Hunting, Nature Page & Night Sky, New York, Opinion /

We recently learned the shocking news that after 161 years of operation the Finch Pruyn paper mill will no longer be conducting Adirondack logging operations and will cease buying pulpwood for its Glens Falls mill. 
About 15 years ago – under new management – we began noticing trucks coming out of the Adirondacks loaded with very small diameter pulpwood. I saw a few trucks that had no wood bigger than six inches in diameter.  With the previous owners the wood on those trucks averaged between ten inches and eighteen inches in diameter.

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Dean Bortz: Wisconsin wildlife biologists see positive signs for fall deer hunts

Featured, Home Page News, Hunting, National Hunting, Wisconsin /

Don’t look now, but Wisconsin’s 2026 archery deer season is upon us (it started Sept. 12), and that means the rifle season isn’t all that far away any longer.
There are a few things deer hunters of all stripes might want to keep in mind for this year. All of this is per the Department of Natural Resources. The antlerless-only holiday hunt will run Dec. 24 through Jan. 1, 2027, in 48 counties. Then 42 of those counties are extending the archery season through Jan. 31, 2027. Check each farmland zone county for the number of antlerless “tags” that will be issued with each license.

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Divers examine aquatic plant life in New York’s Warren County waters

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Nick Rowell and Jake Dunkley emerged from the waters of Brant Lake holding a variety of small plants, tossing out names such as bladderwort and pondweed. They dove up and down in the shallows of the lake for hours, collecting samples and photographing the underwater plant life in the northern Warren County lake as boats and anglers passed nearby.

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World Musky Hunt in Wisconsin turns 50

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The World Musky Hunt (WMH) celebrated it 50th anniversary in Wisconsin with a big turnout of contestants, past “hunters,” and guides, who fished lakes in Vilas and Oneida counties Aug. 27-29.
Founded in 1977 by Harold Mares, Andy Andel, and Wayne Papini, and patterned after Lander Wyoming’s One-Shot Antelope Hunt, the World Musky Hunt aims to “immortalize that tremendous game fish and allow the rest of the world to know and understand the great sport of musky fishing, as well as promote the beautiful state of Wisconsin.”

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Growing Vortex feels right at home in small Barneveld, Wis. community

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The fit seems just right for Vortex, a once-small Wisconsin company that has grown substantially but still feels comfortable in a small town in an outdoors-loving state.
The maker of high-quality optics is on the outskirts of Barneveld, an Iowa County town with a population of about 1,400 that sits 30 miles west of Madison. The complex is adjacent to the 1,000-acre prairie owned by the Nature Conservancy and nearby Southwest Wisconsin Grassland and Stream Conservation Area. Mickella Nofsinger, Vortex associate marketing communications manager, led a tour of writers attending the Outdoor Writers Association of America annual conference in Madison on a behind-the-scenes tour of the huge facility.

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Examining the two faces of fall turkey hunting

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When other hunters are fixated on whitetails or waterfowl, there is plenty of room in the autumn woods for anybody who wants to experience what might be the ultimate turkey hunting rush.
If you believe that a turkey is a turkey and they all kind of look the same and act the same, you will struggle with fall turkey hunting. Here’s why: you are chasing everything from young-of-the-year birds still living with their mommies, all the way to adult gobblers that don’t have any hormones messing with their ability to avoid danger.

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