A mix of outdoors stories from New York, including information on Department of Environmental Conservation 2025 Summer Camps.

The decision to sell the former Geneva Foundry property to a Rochester developer who wants to build approximately 60 units of ...

The state Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and New York Sea Grant have announced $200,000 funding is now available for projects benefiting New York’s Great Lakes basin by demonstrating ...

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation recently released its annual bear harvest report showing that hunters harvested an estimated 1,685 bears during the 2024 hunting seasons.

New York State is looking for a few good hunters—specifically youth hunters—to tag a few turkeys this spring. The state ...

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Prescribed burns will be conducted at certain state forests and preserves throughout New York. Prescribed burns are controlled fires used to improve a land’s habitat ...

While New York State has a burn ban in effect until May 14th, the State Department of Environmental Conservation announced on ...

A pair of bald eagles is nesting along Lake Ontario in Irondequoit and delighting residents, but conservationists worry ...

Students from four Capital Region schools had the chance to compete in the New York National Archery in the Schools Program ...

DEC scientist collecting water samples on Molly’s Falls Reservoir in Marshfield shortly after lake ice-out in early spring.

Citizen monitoring and sampling of Canandaigua Lake NY water continues in a race to combat harmful algal blooms.