Bear management plan up next for DEC
Staff Report
May 31, 2012
DEC’s deer management plan has occupied much of the time of the department’s wildlife biologists over the past couple years.
Hunting
Moose migrating to New York from Vermont., New Hampshire, Maine
Site Staff
May 31, 2012
A study that relied on moose scat, tissue and hair samples found that New York state’s moose population likely came from the neighboring states of Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine
Dove hunt legislation surfaces in New York Senate
Staff Report
May 17, 2012
Legislation that could pave the way for a dove hunting season in New York has been introduced in the state Senate.
DEC balks at all-day gobbler hunting in New York
Staff Report
May 17, 2012
New York wildlife biologists don’t see all-day spring gobbler hunting in the state’s near future, even though it’s a move neighboring states like Pennsylvania and Ohio have made in recent years
Fluke, porgy, sea bass regs loosened in New York
Staff Report
May 17, 2012
DEC has loosened its summer flounder (fluke), scup (porgy) and black sea bass regulations in light of data that shows those fish stocks are healthier than originally believed
Rifle bills introduced in Albany New York
Site Staff
May 3, 2012
Albany, Cayuga, Rockland and part of Ontario County
Long Island nontypical new bow record
Site Staff
May 3, 2012
Mike Giarraputo is the first to tell anyone that his encounter and subsequent harvest of a buck that set a new state record might just be “one of the more uneventful big buck stories out
Weather again impacts turkey hunting youths
Site Staff
May 3, 2012
Some iffy weather, courtesy of a cold front that swept across the state on the first morning of New York’s two-day youth turkey hunt, likely impacted harvest numbers this year.
Cell-ing point: Talking turkey
Site Staff
April 30, 2012
I haven’t strayed too far from the phone this week. A turkey-hunting friend of mine is out in Missouri and, as usual, he has clearance to call any time a gobbler is down, although with
