Great Northeast Podcast

With another spring turkey season on the horizon, New York Outdoor News editor and host Dan Ladd touches on a number of topics pertaining to gobbler hunting. First, with several states holding youth hunting weekends,

New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation recently proposed four regulation changes to encourage hunters in the state to shoot more antlerless deer. Among them is an earn-a-second-buck proposal that would require hunters to harvest and

Recently, lawmakers and conservation groups gathered in Albany for a meeting of the New York Legislative Sportsmen’s Caucus to talk face-to-face about issues facing sportsmen in New York. New York Outdoor News Editor and host

Melanie Sawyer, who lives in New York’s Adirondack Mountains and was a former participant on the History Channel’s Alone series, joins the podcast. Among Melanie’s many passions are linking history and food, and along with

Gun rights defender Attorney Paloma Capanna joins the podcast once again to catch up on the status of a number of lawsuits she’s either involved in or knowledgeable of that challenge New York gun laws,

In the midst of a winter cold stretch across the entire Northeast, Dan Ladd sits down with Chemung County, N.Y. executive Chris Moss and county legislator Jim Palmer to talk about the county’s annual Park

Long-time measurer and past-president Jim Dowd of the NYS Big Buck Club joins the first podcast of 2026 to talk about the organization, including its long list of nearly 100 measurers scattered across the state.

In what may be the final podcast of the year and in conjunction with the Dec. 26 issue of New York Outdoor News, host Dan Ladd looks back on the top stories of 2025, which

With a grant secured, Ducks Unlimited, the University of Delaware and a host of partners are preparing for a trail camera study of black duck habitat in the Delmarva Peninsula and Chesapeake Bay areas. DU