
Youth hunt year’s top story
For New York sportsmen and women, 2012 was a roller-coaster of a year.

For New York sportsmen and women, 2012 was a roller-coaster of a year.

Nathan Knapp has been an avid hunter and outdoorsman for more than 30 years. But the Ithaca-area man might soon hang up his guns and bow.

A license “restructuring” that could be pushed by the state’s Conservation Fund Advisory Board next year would actually roll back some sporting license fees just four years after an increase.

N.Y. taxidermists, meat processors, hunters affected

Court calls law vague, arbitrary

Harvest numbers still being tallied; no safety issues

131,000 trout destroyed; will impact stocking

A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist recently discovered hydrilla, a highly invasive aquatic plant, in the Erie Canal in North Tonawanda, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) announced today.

Shorter season, increased in minimum size
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