
New York Letters to the Editor: Allowing slugs during holiday hunt would boost antlerless take
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Feb. 6, 2026 edition of New York Outdoor News.

Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Feb. 6, 2026 edition of New York Outdoor News.

The morning email recently contained a jaw-dropping photo from reader Phyllis Terchanik – a tundra swan with a very odd neck. One of the birds in her photo has a longer-than-normal neck and it’s torqued

It’s the end of January, and admittedly, I don’t have a lot to do. I sold my snowshoes a few years ago. Worn knees took care of that activity.
Nevertheless, even though deer season

Like clockwork every late winter and early spring, millions of snow geese begin their grueling 3,000-mile-plus journey from their wintering areas in the southern United States to their Canadian arctic breeding grounds.
The winged

New York native Patrick Wightman, Ph.D., has joined the National Wild Turkey Federation as the organization’s new national director of wild turkey research and science.
Wightman, who has been in Athens, Ga., since 2018,

One of the last three county-operated fish hatcheries in New York received welcome news recently in the form of $231,680 in federal grant funds to improve the hatchery’s ability to raise trout and serve as

Panfish are on the move. Here’s where to catch them and what to use.

Last month, the National Rifle Association filed a lawsuit against the NRA Foundation, asserting the NRA’s ownership of the intellectual property used by the foundation.
The case, known as NRA v. the NRA Foundation,
New York Attorney General Letitia James on Jan. 14 announced that she and the New York City Police Department issued a 71-count indictment charging Lawrence Destefano, 65, of Orlando, Florida, with shipping firearms, so-called ghost
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