
Long Island waterfowl stricken by bird flu
A headline in the Feb. 6 issue of New York Outdoor News issue warned, “Bird flu cases could increase in Northeast.” That has been the case on Long Island, where residents are regularly finding dead

A headline in the Feb. 6 issue of New York Outdoor News issue warned, “Bird flu cases could increase in Northeast.” That has been the case on Long Island, where residents are regularly finding dead

Here’s a look at the New York fishing report from across the state on Feb. 26, 2026.

Conditions are good for fresh steelhead migrations here.

Yellow perch are the dominant catch lake-wide in weedy areas of 6-15 feet of water at this fishery.

Nothing is more pleasing to me than spring otter trapping.
Some of my favorite trapping memories were made in the Northern Adirondack foothills region trapping spring beavers and otters. I long for the day

On this Monday night, I’m settled into the recliner, with the wood stove hissing, temperatures outside in the teens and dropping, watching Indiana and Miami battle it out for college football’s national championship.
My

Annually, like clockwork, in a small woodlot at the end of a steep ridge here in Western New York, a doe bedding phenomenon occurs ever since the lower spruce and ash began to die off

For the better part of 35 years, I attended sport, travel and outdoor shows throughout the northeast from January through April. It was the heyday of these kinds of shows, attracting people from far and

We here in New York, as well as many other states, take hunting seasons for granted, in that opening day means we go hunting. But that’s not always the case in other parts of the
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