hunting
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Apr. 19, 2011 - 11:26 am
Spring hunting season for turkey is almost upon us, according to a New York Department of Environmental Conservation press release.
The official season starts on May 1, but this weekend the kids get an early start during "Youth Turkey Hunting Weekend,"... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Mar. 29, 2011 - 3:30 pm
Black bear cub. Photo by Alan Vernon, via Flickr.
According to the New York State Department of Conservation's 2010 hunting numbers for bear and deer, which were released yesterday, the Catskills are the place to go if you're hunting black bear. Three... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Mar. 3, 2011 - 11:29 am
Want to nurse injured deer back to health, or hunt squirrels with a trained raptor?
The New York Department of Environmental Conservation is holding its exams for both falconry apprentices and wildlife rehabilitators on April 22. To take the exams, you... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011 - 4:00 pm
Want to raise some pheasants this year? The New York Department of Environmental Conservation gives away day-old pheasant chicks every spring to anyone with a brooding pen and department approval. The idea is to release the full-grown birds in the fall in... Read more
By laurie on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010 - 12:38 am
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2010 - 4:34 pm
You've really got to watch your step in the mountains during hunting season. Just ask Greene County man Robert Warrings -- who, it is alleged, was shot at several times by a local sheriff's officer while tracking a bear. The Daily Mail reports:
The state... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Nov. 25, 2010 - 11:29 am
We here at Watershed Post HQ wish all of you a happy Thanksgiving. (Certainly happier than ours -- the whole team here has a terrible cold and will be missing the big feast entirely.)
Here are two Catskills Thanksgiving nuggets gleaned from the internet... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010 - 4:18 pm
This just in from the Delaware County Sheriff's Office: A 30-year-old Franklin man named Preston E. Smith has been arrested for allegedly stealing a rifle and then using it to go hunting. The press release in full:
On November 22, 2010 Delaware County... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Nov. 20, 2010 - 1:59 pm
Today marks the first day of regular deer season -- and the hills are alive with gunshots, blaze orange, and fleeing whitetails. From now until the end of the season on December 12, Catskills residents should take extra care in the woods, and expect to... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Nov. 12, 2010 - 9:44 am
Three men who decided to harvest deer in Roscoe a week early were arrested by the New York Department of Environmental Conservation on Wednesday. 26-year-old Steve Rosati, 27-year-old Vincent J. Lopicolo and 27-year-old Christopher Abrahamsen have been... Read more
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