
Looking back at New York’s Adirondack bush pilots of yesteryear
When I was a kid, I was lucky to go along with my father and a friend of his to set up the annual hunting camp at New York’s West Canada Lake. We flew in

When I was a kid, I was lucky to go along with my father and a friend of his to set up the annual hunting camp at New York’s West Canada Lake. We flew in

…From personal observations, the effects of Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease (EHD) in my part of the state really took a toll on the whitetail population two years ago, and the deer herd does not seem to

The 2022 Northern Zone regular season remains a head-scratcher for myself and our crew, the Iron Sight Gang. It was certainly unpredictable in terms of rutting activity and featured some of the warmest early-season temperatures

It was four days before Halloween, and I still hadn’t located anything that alerted me to the presence of bucks beginning to show themselves with any regularity. I would use the day to cover as

A larger than average percentage of does will cycle into early season buck magnets entering their prime breeding window, starting in mid-October.

Bill Wellman, of the Lake Champlain Chapter of Trout Unlimited (TU), has been awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by the New York State Council of TU in Albany.
Wellman is being honored for his

New York State Department of Environmental Conservation officials confirmed that, in some instances, reported recent fish spearing incidents by Native Americans on the Salmon River, near Atmar, were legal.
DEC’s Fisheries Bureau Chief Steve

Across New York youth hunting seasons and special hunts organized and coordinated around them have been taking place.
In some cases, sportsman’s groups and Department of Environmental Conservation Police have pitched in to

President Joe Biden has signed the Protecting Hunting Heritage and Education Act, which protects funding for schools that provide hunter education, archery, shooting sports and other programs.
The Oct. 6 signature comes after both
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