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Home, sweet home

The more I travel, the more I love where I live. Consider for a moment that in order to obtain a general and bowhunting license in New York state a person must take a hunter

Blaze orange makes a difference

Non-hunters I happen across wonder about the danger of the sport. I usually mention something like it’s more dangerous driving to the hunting site than it is when I take to the woods. They look

203: A New York whitetail odyssey

Two hundred. It’s the number most whitetail hunters consider to be the holy grail of antler score. Hunters are much more likely to find a buck sporting that size of headgear in the corn belt

Ice action starts, but conditions spotty in many areas

Western New York Lake Ontario and tributaries: Stream fishermen have been doing well in places like Eighteen Mile and Twelve Mile creeks – good numbers of fish with eggs or egg imitations still prompting fish

Both sides in fracking debate make final pitch

A coalition of groups on Jan. 10 delivered more than 12,000 comments expressing health and environmental concerns about a drilling process used to reach natural gas that’s being considered in New York. It was a

LaPierre returning to Albany

National Rifle Association president and CEO Wayne LaPierre will return to Albany in March as the featured speaker at an annual rally of the state’s hunters, anglers and trappers.

Ding Darling Refuge a great destination

It was four degrees on the thermometer with a wind chill that dipped below zero – a rare occurrence so far this winter. As I sat in front of the fireplace drinking a cup of

Wildlife encounters behind the wheel

I saw an ermine earlier this month and, as usual, it showed itself when I least expected it – as I drove just outside a little hamlet in Franklin County, heading to visit a popular

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