New York’s Outdoor Calendar
Staff Report
March 18, 2024
A look at upcoming outdoors-related events from across New York published in the March 22, 2024, edition of New York Outdoor News.
New York
New York Attorney General Letitia James secures $7.8 million from ‘ghost’ gun retailer
Staff Report
March 18, 2024
The Florida-based company specializing in selling the parts used to make “ghost” guns will also be permanently banned from selling unfinished frames and receivers in New York.
Application deadline is April 1 as New York’s day-old-chick program returns a year after pheasant farm HPAI outbreak
Jeff Murray
March 18, 2024
If you’ve taken part in New York’s day-old pheasant chick program in the past, the good news is, after being threatened by a disease outbreak in 2023, the program is back this year.
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New York Mixed Bag: State of Lake Champlain meeting is March 23 in Essex County
Staff and News Reports
March 18, 2024
The Lake Champlain Fish and Wildlife Management Cooperative – a working group of fisheries professionals from the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, and the United States Fish and
Pittman-Robertson, Dingell-Johnson funds tally $1.3B
Staff and News Reports
March 18, 2024
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently announced over $1.3 billion in funding through the Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration Program to support state and local outdoor recreational opportunities, hunter education and wildlife and habitat
New York’s annual brush burning ban now in effect
Staff Report
March 18, 2024
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation recently announced the annual statewide ban prohibiting residential brush burning began March 16 and will run through May 14. Since 2009, DEC has enforced the annual brush
New York Letters to the Editor: Electric boats are not as green as they’re made out to be
New York Letters to the Editor
March 18, 2024
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the March 22, 2024, edition of New York Outdoor News.
Youth turkey hunting events springing up across New York
Staff Report
March 18, 2024
New York’s youth turkey hunting weekend is just a month away – taking place April 20-21. Across the state, sportsmen’s groups and other volunteers are doing their part to help prepare young hunters ages 12-15
New York DEC’s summer camp registration kicks off March 24
Staff Report
March 18, 2024
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation reminds potential young campers and their families that online registration for the agency’s 2024 Summer Camps program will open Sunday, March 24, at 1 p.m.
