Fishing

By Steve Piatt Editor Albany — Gov. George Pataki’s 2006-07 budget proposal provides “some very direct help” to DEC’s Bureau of Fish, Wildlife and Marine Resources, its director says. Gerald Barnhart called Pataki’s spending plan

By Don Lehman Contributing Writer Albany, N.Y. – State Sen. Betty Little fondly recalls the days with her young sons at hunter education courses, her boys learning how to safely hunt in the Adirondack woods

By Garry VanGorder Contributing Writer Verona, N.Y. — More than 100 people who ate venison from a deer testing positive for Chronic Wasting Disease have now decided to participate in a study to determine whether

By Steve Piatt Editor Albany — A laundry list of legislation already approved by the New York State Assembly could impact sportsmen’s ownership of weapons — even shotguns and muzzleloaders, according to the New York

Staff report Albany — Revenues from hunting, fishing and trapping licenses in New York won’t be enough to meet anticipated expenses in the DEC’s Division of Fish, Wildlife and Marine Resources 2005-06 budget. But DEC

Staff report Albany — Preliminary reports are showing the 2005 deer hunting season to be perhaps the safest in New York history. DEC Sportsmen Education Administrator Wayne Jones reported late last month that 14 deer

Staff report Rome, N.Y. — DEC deer biologists and statisticians deal with a lot of numbers each season, but the one they’re most impressed with this year is zero. That’s how many new cases of

By Steve Piatt Editor Albany — DEC’s formal unveiling of a series of fishing regulations changes brought no big surprises, largely because the moves have been widely discussed with sportsmen for the past year. The

Albany— DEC will conduct what it’s calling its first major field assessment of the state’s wild turkey population early next year with a trapping and banding program. The project, although statewide, will focus on DEC’s