Rob Fiorentino, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s Region 5 Fisheries Manager, spent a couple of days in mid-May at a dude ranch in the southern Adirondacks, trying to show highway workers how best to take care of the trout-filled streams that run underneath their roads.
Fisheries staff from New York discuss culverts and trout with highway crews Read More »
For the first time in more than five decades, everyone in the family can legally eat fish they catch in the stretch of the Hudson River in New York from Catskill south. The New York State Department of Health relaxed its fish advisories earlier this spring, changing a consumption ban on the lower Hudson among a host of changes that include new advisories on other waters.
New warnings on eating fish were issued for the Great Lakes, some of them related to forever chemicals known as PFAS and/or PFOS.
Department of Health updates New York’s fish consumption advisories Read More »
The cold waters of a popular Adirondack trout stream claimed the life of a downstate man on May 10 after he fell from a kayak and apparently drowned.
Sohail A. Nabi, 21, of Yonkers, Westchester County, was staying at a short-term rental home in Warrensburg with fellow students from Colgate University when he fell from a boat in a fairly calm section of the river.
Kayaker drowns in New York’s Schroon River Read More »
150 years ago, the American chestnut tree was one of the most important food sources in the woods for wildlife in much of the United States.
Chestnuts were the most abundant hardwood tree in the eastern United States, making up an estimated 25 to 30 percent of the eastern hardwood forest. That changed in the early 20th century, when a fungal blight that was accidentally imported from Asia all but wiped out the American chestnut.
Research efforts showing promise toward restoring American chestnut trees Read More »
Trout Unlimited’s initiative to improve trout habitat on the famed Batten Kill river is entering its seventh year in 2026, with several projects on tap on the Vermont and New York sides of the river planned this year.
But one major piece of work, to restore a large pool at the Georgi Park and Museum in the Town of Salem (Washington County), is on hold this year amid a funding holdup. New York State funding had been appropriated for the project, but it is not yet in hand.
Batten Kill River trout project still awaiting New York state funding Read More »
The Schroon River is one of the most popular and productive trout streams in the southern Adirondacks, with its populations of stocked and wild trout and Atlantic salmon drawing anglers from around the Northeast.
Anglers who fish the Schroon recently received good news when New York State awarded funding that will provide better access to the river while also helping to protect water quality.
Angler access to New York’s Schroon River will see improvements Read More »
Atlantic salmon spawning runs in two major Lake Champlain tributaries have seen significant improvements the past two years, with the number of migrating salmon more than doubling on the Saranac River and hitting record numbers on a major tributary in Vermont, the Winooski River.
Report finds mostly good news for New York’s Lake Champlain Read More »
New York’s new catch-and-release season for trout in inland trout streams does not appear to be having a significant impact on wild trout populations, according to a newly released study from the state Department of Environmental Conservation.
Before 2021, trout season closed on most streams in New York after Oct. 15 each fall. The new catch-and-release season allows anglers to fish inland trout streams, but not keep any of what they catch until the traditional opening day of April 1.
Has new catch-and-release season impacted New York trout? DEC releases study results Read More »
Jane Havens did not miss a court date for the men who burglarized her Washington County gun store, Calamity Jane’s Firearms and Fine Shoes, and stole more than 30 handguns in October 2022.
From their first hearings in Kingsbury Town Court to their sentencings in federal court, Havens was there to make sure that the individuals who smashed their way into her store and stole 31 semiautomatic handguns were held accountable.
New York gun shop thieves issued prison sentences Read More »
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