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New York Letters to the Editor: Pheasant stocking funded by hunters, not N.Y. taxpayers
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the June 14, 2024, edition of New York Outdoor News.

Dan Ladd: Use of ProcellaCOR in New York’s Lake George meets opposition
Talk to sportsmen about invasive species and it’s certain you’ll get a variety of opinions. Anglers are annoyed by spiny water fleas clogging up their fishing line, but some don’t mind the fact that round

Wisconsin Letters to the Editor: Forest Service, DNR policies compound hunter attrition
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the June 14, 2024, edition of Wisconsin Outdoor News.

Commentary: Death of Wisconsin prairie chicken at hand?
The greater prairie chicken (GPC) is a native species to Wisconsin. There are fewer than 500 prairie chickens remaining in Wisconsin, with two-thirds of them concentrated on the a 12,700-acre Buena Vista Marsh in southwestern

State Roundup: Start with Iron County when looking deep into issues with Northern Wisconsin’s deer herd
Steve Heiting’s deer series continues with a look at Iron and Ashland counties, along with an accompanying article on the front page of our June 14 print edition of Wisconsin Outdoor News.
I grew

Steve Griffin: Here’s why I care about Lake Superior coaster brook trout
Why should I care about restoring coaster brook trout to Lake Superior and its shoreline tributaries? Because they’re native, they’re spectacular, they’re fascinating – and we put them on the ropes.
Yes, and especially

Bill Hilts, Jr.: Oswego shines for New York’s spring writers conference
Oswego County truly is a sportsman’s paradise in New York.
Located on the southeast corner of Lake Ontario, it is home to some of the best freshwater fishing in the country. This made it

Jeffrey Frischkorn: From my first fish, a love affair with catching yellow perch has never faded
My very first fish was a yellow perch, and all I could do was admire it with a child’s awe.
The fish’s body was more gold than yellow or more yellow than gold, if

Notes off a soiled cuff: Politics now everywhere, including in fish and wildlife management
For a long time many of us thought – naively I suspect – that public policy making for hunting, fishing and wild resource management was nonpartisan. But everything is political, now.
As evidence, the