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Megan Plete

Megan Plete: Sandhills, spring snow, and a Nebraska longbeard

Featured, Features, Hunting, National Hunting, New York /

Last month I found myself in a rustic tent camp in the sandhills region of Nebraska with a number of other outdoor media folk from around the country and even Canada. We all came to accomplish the same goal: kill a Merriam turkey.
On the first evening, we drove through winding hills as red dust and gravel scattered behind the flatbed, the kind of country that feels bigger the farther you get into it. Birds were everywhere.

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Megan Plete: Little bucks, big memories

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I rolled out of bed hours before sunrise, brewed a cup of coffee, and started pulling on layers of hunting clothes. The plan was simple: meet my dad and my brother at their house around 5 a.m., pile into the truck, and head to our hunting spot.
The morning was clear and frosty. When I arrived, they weren’t ready, so I paced impatiently waiting for them to finish up.

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Megan Plete: New York State Conservation Council has been a longtime voice for outdoor users

Featured, Fishing, Home Page News, Hunting, National Fishing, National Hunting, Nature Page & Night Sky, New York, Opinion /

For nearly a century, there has been an organization working quietly and steadfastly to ensure that the voices and priorities of sportsmen in New York don’t get lost in the rooms where conservation policy is written and decisions are made.
That organization is the New York State Conservation Council.

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Megan Plete: Beagles are built for rabbit hunting

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My grandfather looked like Elvis Presley, if Elvis Presley had a mustache and fondness for wearing Johnson wool. He spoke slowly, often with a pipe dangling from the corner of his mouth.

He had the fiery temper of an Italian, but not with me. He was an old-school type of gentleman that did not use swear words in front of the ladies. We both loved reading, writing, and beagles.

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New York hunter gets his buck, then the bear that followed

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It was only a few hours into opening morning of rifle season in New York, Nov. 15, and Sullivan County hunter Andrew Ritz had filled both his buck and bear tag.
The 38-year-old had crept into his wooden, elevated hunting shanty before daylight and waited for the woods to awaken. The first action happened right after sunrise, when he heard some deer stomping through the leaves behind him, which turned out to be two does passing through.

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Megan Plete: On a buck’s trail and lessons etched in snow

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Tracking a white-tailed buck in the snow looks dreamy in photos.
It has all the elements that make a nostalgic hunting postcard scene: a clean white landscape, hanging branches, and a wool-clad hunter moving like a gentle whisper through fresh powder. My reality was a lot less polished. It was not smooth at all.

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Kinfolk Hunting Collective a first step for new hunters in New York

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Kinfolk Hunting Collective, a New York-based non-profit, has emerged this year as a growing force in the world of outdoor education, mentoring new hunters and outdoor enthusiasts with a mission that blends community, inclusivity, and stewardship of the land.
Co-founded by Brandon Dale, Greg Whalen, Paul Gallery, Jeff Wagenhauser, and Timothy Clark, the organization, which officially received its non-profit status earlier this month, positions itself not just as a hunting organization, but as a community-building collective aimed at those underrepresented in traditional hunting cultures.

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Megan Plete: Building bridges to the outdoors

Featured, Fishing, Hunting, National Fishing, National Hunting, New York /

When I first started this journey of mentoring women in the outdoors, I thought I’d be teaching them the practical side of things, such as how to identify deer sign in the woods, how to determine wind direction, how to safely handle a firearm, or how to handle a harvest.
And yes, those hard skills certainly matter, but what I have learned after a few years is that it is not the end result that makes the difference. It is everything that leads up to it.

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