Outdoors

Former Portville student earns Junior Distinguished Shooter award A fancy for Texas Hots and buffalo wings is not the only thing Magdalena Ehmann gain...

One of the recurring themes in British fiction during the Victorian period was the tension between the scientific and the supernatural. It may be most...

ALBANY — The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (State Parks) announced Wednesday that more than 60.1 million people...

CANEADEA — The temperature Sunday at the Genesee Valley Conservation Club near Caneadea was somewhere in the mid-thirties as 19 shooters from the Wint...

If you love to hunt or observe wildlife and own even a very little land, food plots have become not only very popular, but the subject of intensive st...

PORTVILLE — The temperature Feb. 15 at the Portville Conservation Club was just about 10 degrees as just 21 shooters from the Winter Travel League bra...

ALBANY — The 2013 New York hunting season had the lowest number of hunting related shooting incidents on record, New York State Department of Environm...

The annual Jim Stearns’ Memorial Rabbit Hunt will be held Saturday at the Enchanted Mountain Beagle Club located at the end of Oakes Road (off Hasting...

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo this past week introduced the New York State Adventure License Series, providing New Yorkers and visitors the opportunity to purc...

Usually any article I write on a controversial subject brings forth many comments, feedback and opinions of all types — positive and negative. However...

ALBANY — New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Joe Martens says that beginning Thursday, Dec. 26, the public will not b...

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has kicked off the second year of a research project on wild turkey survival to help impro...

The 2013 regular deer and bear hunting seasons open at sunrise Saturday in New York’s Southern Zone. “New York’s deer and bear populations are great r...

This past week the New York state Department of Environmental Conservation announced that a statewide hunter survey was underway to gauge the level of...

ALBANY — A statewide deer hunter survey is underway in an effort to provide improved deer hunting in the coming years, with the state Department of En...

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation announced Thursday that approximately 35,000 Deer Management Permits (DMPs) will be issued...

ALBANY — New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Joe Martens announced several changes to the September Canada goose hunt...

Hunters took fewer black bears in Cattaraugus and Allegany counties this past season even as New York state overall recorded its third-highest bear ha...