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NY: Rifle bills return to Albany

Cortland and Wyoming, parts of Ontario and Chautauqua counties Albany – A group of bills that will, if approved, allow rifles in additional parts of the Southern Tier for big-game hunting have resurfaced in the

NY: Cuomo budget: No DEC layoffs

Albany - Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s belt-tightening 2011-12 budget proposal calls for the layoffs of up to 9,800 state workers, but none within the DEC. That news, however, comes with an important qualifier. Cuomo’s draft budget,

NY: Hunting accidents take jump

Albany – New York’s hunters have compiled a less-than-stellar safety record this season, with several fatalities and other incidents that could easily have been prevented through common sense. DEC officials have yet to release final

NY: Martens set to lead DEC

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has nominated Joe Martens, a key figure in some of the state’s major land acquisitions in the Adirondacks and elsewhere, to serve as commissioner of the Department of Environmental Conservation. Martens has

NY: Deer-jacking crackdown returns

‘Operation Dark Night’ nets 137 individuals Avon, N.Y. – A statewide crackdown on deer poaching for the second straight year has netted numerous arrests this fall. DEC officials announced the results of the seven-week detail,

NY: L.I. towns win court fight against saltwater license

Central Islip, N.Y. – Seven Long Island towns have won a lawsuit in which they challenged the state’s $10 annual marine fishing license. New York State Supreme Court Judge Patrick A. Sweeney ruled last month

Researchers: Asian Carp are Past Electronic Barrier

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) – Scientists whose genetics-based research became a lightning rod in the debate over protecting the Great Lakes from Asian carp have made their case in a newly published article that says

NY: 2010’s top story still unfinished

Elizabethtown, N.Y. – Chances are you can pencil in the top New York Outdoor News story of 2010 as one of the top stories of 2011 as well. That’s because New York is showing little

Lamprey control efforts paying off for NY anglers

PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (AP) – Efforts to control the sea lamprey population in Lake Champlain and its tributaries are paying off with a significant drop in the number of lake trout and salmon afflicted by the

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