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NY: Early bear harvest reports stalled

Albany – New York’s early bear season is seemingly off to a solid start, but problems with DEC’s harvest reporting system have made it a challenge to get a clear picture of hunter success. DEC

NY: DEC Commissioner Grannis fired

Albany – DEC Commissioner Pete Grannis has been fired from that position, days after the leak of a memo sent by DEC to the state budget office contending that layoffs and other cuts have placed

NY: Southern Zoners upbeat

Albany — A 10 percent statewide reduction in Deer Management Permits virtually guarantees the Southern Zone deer harvest will decline this season. But DEC officials say the statewide deer kill always indicative of what’s happening

Weather or not, N. Zone season opens

Elizabethtown, N.Y. — If you hear Northern Zone deer hunters uttering the phrase, “let it snow, let it snow, let it snow,” they’re not dreaming of a white Christmas. A white November – or even

Gas meetings draw support, opposition

Binghamton, N.Y. (AP) — Rep. Maurice Hinchey told a federal hearing last month that the Environmental Protection Agency must regulate hydraulic fracturing, the natural gas extraction process that he said has contaminated water near drilling

Archery ready for first shot

Horseheads, N.Y. – Don Barrett sees the trail cam pictures brought into his shop almost daily. Big bucks. Some really big. It’s always that was as New York’s archery season approaches, but the fever pitch

EPA denies bid to ban lead ammo

Washington (AP) - The Environmental Protection Agency last month denied a petition by five environmental groups to ban lead in hunting ammunition, saying the issue is not within the agency’s jurisdiction. The EPA said it

Court battle looms over access to Adirondacks

Albany – A decades-old battle over whether float planes should be allowed to land on remote lakes in the Adirondack mountains has been renewed with a new federal lawsuit over the issue. Six residents of

Fishing license sales take 11% dip

Albany – New York fishing license sales took an expected double-digit dive in 2009-10 on the heels of a fee increase a year earlier. And not surprisingly, a big chunk of that decline came in

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