It’s no secret that Lake Ontario’s Eastern Basin and St. Lawrence River largemouth and smallmouth bass fisheries are among the best in the country. Information on angling participation associated with these fisheries has not been collected in several years. DEC is in the early stages of evaluating these fisheries for the development of potential management strategies. As a first step,…
Reservations will be required starting May 1 for the 70 parking spots at the Ausable Mountain Reserve lot for access to trails across the reserve’s 7,000 acres. Walk-in users without a reservation will not be permitted.
If the holiday-week hunting season that the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation had proposed earlier this fall had come to fruition, it’s interesting to see how it might have transpired. It would’ve taken place Dec. 26 to Jan. 1. The holiday hunt – suggested to allow families to hunt together during the holidays with archery (including crossbows) gear…
The northern snakehead, which has the nickname “Frankenfish,” can also survive out of water and occasionally will move overland, spreading to different bodies of water.
It happens every spring. The state’s Department of Environmental Conservation’s (DEC) stocking trucks, filled with fish, head out to plant fish at designated locations around the state. Many people associate this activity with the April 1 opening day of trout for the inland streams and lakes, and they should. However, there is a disconnect, a lack of understanding with what…
It’s a level that has not been reached since the 1980s.
Sadly, the state doesn’t do nearly enough to market the fishing possibilities.
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) announced that remaining deer management permits (DMPs) in several wildlife management units (WMUs) will be available to hunters beginning Nov. 1. DMPs, which allow hunters to harvest antlerless deer, are issued for specific WMUs to control deer populations. In some WMUs, all applicants received permits during the initial application process, and…
(Wikipedia)A reproducing population of brook trout has been discovered in a tiny lake in the Adirondack High Peaks Wilderness for the first time since the lake was declared fishless due to acid rain 32 years ago, New York state officials said. Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Basil Seggos said yesterday the breeding population of trout in the 38-acre Lake Colden…
It’s been several years ago now since there was a sporting license fee increase in New York. And just before that last increase I forked over a nice chunk of change to purchase my lifetime licenses, pretty much across the board. That now means I don’t make the annual trek to the local sporting goods store or town clerk’s office…
Police learned of the Sharon Springs escape when a farmer in neighboring Roseboom reported they had damaged his hay crop.
Fish caught, tagged, and released is likely one of 320 juvenile sturgeon stocked in 1999 as part of DEC’s Lake Sturgeon Recovery Program.
(Editor’s note: A criminal charge is merely an allegation that a defendant has committed a violation of the criminal law, and it is not evidence of guilt. All defendants are presumed innocent and entitled to a fair trial, during which it will be the state of New York’s burden to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.) Dinner plans thwarted (Queens…
(Editor’s note: A criminal charge is merely an allegation that a defendant has committed a violation of the criminal law, and it is not evidence of guilt. All defendants are presumed innocent and entitled to a fair trial, during which it will be the state of New York’s burden to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.) A friend in need…
Twenty-percent increase in antlerless harvest comes after a lower-than-desired antlerless harvest in 2017.
Sauger from the first year of stocking are now reaching over 20 inches.
Fishing quality in 2018 was particularly good for Chinook salmon and brown trout.
Hunters took 1,295 black bears during the 2018 hunting seasons, down from 1,420 the previous year.
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) recently issued a press release announcing that mid-winter aerial surveys of the Adirondack moose population had been completed. But there was still some work to be done as DEC biologists wanted to get a better peek this winter at the number of moose calves, especially in relation to a handful of cow…
Let’s all work together to make this happen, allowing for the use of crossbows and make the regulations and requirements more accepting for today’s standards. It’s time.
If writer had to make a choice, it would be to cut some time off the end, at least in years when the late season carries into mid-December.
A pair of bull moose fight on a remote road on conservation easement lands in the northern Adirondacks (New York State Department of Environmental Conservation video) Categories: Nature, New York Videos Tags: Adirondacks, Moose, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
Survey reveals catch rates of chinook salmon double the five-year average during spring and early summer of 2018.
Should the DEC’s Summer Sighting Survey confirm the writer’s observations, the low poult numbers this year will mean fewer jakes on the landscape next spring, and even more importantly, fewer 2-year-old longbeards in the spring of 2020.
The state-owned area is within a 2,000-acre grassland recognized by the National Audubon Society as critical bird habitat.
(Photo by Windigo Images)ALBANY, N.Y. — New York state is offering 2,000 pheasants to groups that sponsor hunts involving young people, women, novices, veterans or people with disabilities. The state Department of Environmental Conservation annually offers some of the pheasants it raises at its Ithaca game farm for use in sponsored hunts. The aim of the program is to allow…
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