
New York Letters to the Editor: Allowing slugs during holiday hunt would boost antlerless take
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Feb. 6, 2026 edition of New York Outdoor News.

Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Feb. 6, 2026 edition of New York Outdoor News.

It’s the end of January, and admittedly, I don’t have a lot to do. I sold my snowshoes a few years ago. Worn knees took care of that activity.
Nevertheless, even though deer season

New York native Patrick Wightman, Ph.D., has joined the National Wild Turkey Federation as the organization’s new national director of wild turkey research and science.
Wightman, who has been in Athens, Ga., since 2018,

One of the last three county-operated fish hatcheries in New York received welcome news recently in the form of $231,680 in federal grant funds to improve the hatchery’s ability to raise trout and serve as

Panfish are on the move. Here’s where to catch them and what to use.

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
New York Attorney General Letitia James on Jan. 14 announced that she and the New York City Police Department issued a 71-count indictment charging Lawrence Destefano, 65, of Orlando, Florida, with shipping firearms, so-called ghost

The first of several state-wide free fishing days in New York will take place Saturday, Feb. 14, and Sunday, Feb.15, during President’s Day weekend.

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation reminds New Yorkers that Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) continues to infect birds and mammals across the U.S. and Canada, including New York State.
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