Hunting

By Steve Piatt Editor Albany – New York grouse hunters may have had a slightly better season in 2005 than in 2004, if data from the second year of a hunter survey is any indication.

By Steve Piatt Editor Albany – If there’s one word that may describe New York’s upcoming 2006 archery season, it’s quiet. Certainly much quieter than last year, when proposed alterations to the Southern Zone archery

Staff report Albany – New York’s deer hunters should harvest slightly more whitetails this season, ending a trend of declining harvest totals over the past several years, DEC deer biologist Jeremy Hurst says. DEC officials

Staff report Lowville, N.Y. – A Lewis County dairy farm has agreed to pay more than $2 million in a settlement with the state for an August 2005 manure spill into the Black River that

By Don Lehman Contributing Writer Albany – Teens as young as 14 can legally shoot pistols in a controlled setting under a law enacted in New York earlier this summer. The new statute was hailed

By Don Lehman Contributing Writer Albany – Gov. George Pataki vetoed a bill in late July that would have significantly raised penalties for certain types of deerjacking. The law would have made it a misdemeanor

By Steve Piatt Editor Syracuse, N.Y. – A group that’s been pushing for Quality Deer Management and antler restrictions in portions of Central New York has yet to make any formal proposal to the state

By Dean Bortz Staff Writer Cape Girardeau, Mo. — Minnesota is one of 15 states named in a “scoped muzzleloader” federal discrimination complaint filed in late July with the U.S. Department of the Interior by