Outdoors

My grandson’s 9. Visiting from Rhode Island, he, his two sisters and mom were here for a week, taking advantage of their spring break. The first part ...

How much do you care about whitetail deer? How much do you know about them? I attended a public seminar earlier this spring conducted by the Pennsylva...

GRAHAMSVILLE — The New York State Whitetail Management Coalition issued a statement this past week that it “strongly disagrees” with the New York Stat...

No gobbler in late season? There’s still hope. Plenty of it. Maybe your turkey sightings and sounds in April made it look like this would be a slam-du...

HINSDALE — It’s become a habit for Jordan Sands. Six days from now, the Hinsdale Central School freshman will be lining up against the wall once again...

ALBANY (AP) — The fishing season for walleye, northern pike, pickerel and tiger muskellunge opens this weekend in New York state. Saturday also marks ...

Thirteen-year-old Mollee Thorington went big on her first spring gobbler. The bird weighed nearly 24 pounds and earned her a first prize (and a $250 g...

There are many conflicting opinions about how close to get to a bird on the roost. Anyone who has hunted out of a treestand knows how much better you ...

As I become older, grumpier, and more cynical, it’s refreshing to me to occasionally be reminded of the positive, traditional values still found in ou...

It’s going to happen again — too many hens for the gobblers to get lonely. Hunters complain year after year that gobblers are “henned-up” and won’t re...

I woke up the other night in a cold sweat; something was wrong, something hanging over me. I struggled trying to place this unpleasant, threatening fe...

While growing up in a family of hunters in Olean, Chad Faulkner learned the art of taxidermy and eventually developed a passion for filming and tellin...

We have a problem in the area that surrounds Olean: There is so much fishing water around it is difficult to pick where to go on any given day. This i...

ERIE, Pa. (AP) — Presque Isle State Park, recently named Best Freshwater Beach in the national USA Today 10 Best Readers’ Choice contest, has long bee...

I’ve never won the lottery, nor had a promise of riches, but every year the miracle of trout season brings a special excitement and wonder into my lif...

People think I’m an expert hunter because I write about hunting for newspapers and magazines. I never claim to be, and that’s one reason this column i...

I’m writing this before the first day of the 2016 New York trout season, but you’ll be reading it after the magical April 1. Seems strange, but such i...

WEST VALLEY — The Western New York chapter of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation will host its annual banquet at 4 p.m. April 30 at the West Valley Fir...