Outdoors

The Allegheny National Forest opened 144 forest roads on Sept. 19 to allow hunters access, with an additional nine forest roads opening at later dates...

It’s the second week of archery season, daylight's fading, you can’t help thinking of dinner. You turn and look behind you one last time. To your abso...

We’d risen in the pitch black of the predawn and driven 20 minutes to the area we were hunting that morning, splitting up to cover different areas of ...

If you knew my wife Jane well, you realized she thought a great deal more than she spoke. How she ended up with me is a bit of a mystery, especially k...

ANDOVER — The Andover Wetlands Annual Kids Fishing Contest celebrated its 35th anniversary with 111 participants from communities across New York and ...

If you own land and love wildlife, you probably have a food plot. The reasons for this are many, even among non-hunters, as food plots attract many sp...

By some remarkable convolution of time, it's August 2026. Just where the previous months went, I’m not sure, but the days are growing shorter and arch...

The Andover Wetlands Project will host the 35th annual Kids Fishing Contest on Saturday, Aug. 15, at Andover Ponds on Route 21, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. ...

Hunting pheasants with my grandfather, Arthur Hayes, and Ken Lorch during my late teens was incredibly important to my upbringing. Here I was exposed,...

I sat quietly as the light gradually increased, the far ridge top growing from an indistinct blur into a sharp, knife-edge silhouette against the dawn...

When I arrived in Val Marie, Saskatchewan in late May, it was with the expectation of hiking and birding on the mixed-grass prairie that covers almost...

I’m pleased to see more and more kayaks and canoes on the waters today. Not only do these pollution-free watercraft eliminate the roar of engines, the...

Summer is upon us and with it, warmer weather and warmer water temperatures. The first thing to recognize is that the fish are changing their habits n...

In my opinion, it takes an extraordinarily gifted writer to describe the experience of standing in what remains of the American prairie. While ordinar...

Anglers can take to the streams, ponds and lakes of New York state for free this weekend as the requirement for a freshwater fishing license is waived...

The lake was shimmering, its oily surface as smooth as glass. Scattered patches of fog hung randomly here and there as floating misty phantoms in the ...

ALBANY (TNS) — The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation recently updated its management plan for ring-necked pheasants. The new pla...

A group of us were hunting snowshoe rabbits in McKean County some years back. It was the day after Christmas and we were all eager to get outside and ...