Opinions
A year in review: 2023 was a pretty good year in New York’s outdoors
As 2023 draws to a close and we ready ourselves for another year, it’s time to review how the last 12 months treated us in the great outdoors. For the most part, it was a
Pennsylvania flintlock season: Touching history with each shot
Ever since the Pennsylvania Game Commission established the first season of hunting deer after Christmas with a flintlock rifle, I’ve been a participant.
Initially, those early years allowed hunting on select Pennsylvania state
New York Letters to the Editor: Hunter’s light copper bullet did not perform well in 7mm-08
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Dec. 29, 2023, edition of New York Outdoor News.
Outdoor Insights: 2023 was a year of major changes for conservation organizations
The past year has seen major changes in American conservation leadership at groups like Pheasants Forever and Backcountry Hunters and Anglers. Add the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership to that list. The organization’s longtime CEO, Whit
Patrick Durkin: New age of deer hunting brings little joy in Wisconsin
You might assume state hunters were happy they shot a deer every other second during November’s nine-day gun season.
You’re wrong, of course. Hunters registered 85,773 bucks and 89,123 antlerless deer during the gun
Steve Carney: Looking back on a strange 2023 bowhunting season for whitetails
What a strange 2023 bowhunting season it was for this hunter!
I reviewed my logbook for the fall deer-hunting season, which revealed that I was in various stands and ground blinds a total of
Minnesota Letters to the Editor: Time to take better care of the Mighty Mississippi
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Dec. 29, 2023, edition of Minnesota Outdoor News.
Commentary: What would Teddy Roosevelt think about today’s hunters and anglers?
Theodore Roosevelt believed in the restorative benefits of hunting – as well as the importance of conserving wildlife for its own sake. His philosophy of conservation lived on through the actions of government, although opposed
Can microorganisms control a deer’s behavior?
The more you learn about nature, the weirder it becomes. Take the case of the “zombie” parasite Cordyceps. Spores from this fungus end up on an ant in a tropical forest. The spores take over
