New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Amanda Lefton recently announced that late bow and ...

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Amanda Lefton announced Dec. 17 that late bow and muzzleloader deer hunting seasons will reopen throughout most of New York’s S ...

The 2025-26 holiday deer hunt opens this week on Dec. 26 and runs through Jan. 1, 2026 across most of New York’s Southern ...

Nearly $140,000 will be up for grabs during the 2026 Lake Ontario County Derby events of the spring, summer and fall.

Standing on an esker northeast of Ampersand Mountain, retired state biologist Ray Curran pointed to a fen he first visited ...

By spring, my mind will be back in a tree stand, focused on the Whitetail rut in New York State. Call me crazy, but I believe ...

But the pain that follows a trigger that never should have been pulled is soothed neither by a courtroom conviction nor by a ...

A biologist finds respite in an old growth forest near Ampersand Mountain that he first discovered with his mentor Greenleaf Chase.

In 2025, the Statesman Journal outdoors team wrote about fascinating people and traveled to stunning places. Here's our 10 ...

Pennsylvania is still cleaning up decades’ worth of coal mining pollution. Now it must also contend with millions of tons of ...

Irving Berlin’s “White Christmas” — 7-9 p.m. Fridays-Saturdays, The Butte Theater, 130 E. Bennett Ave., Cripple Creek, go online for prices. Tickets: buttetheater.com. Through Dec. 28: “A Christmas ...