Last Updated: Saturday, May 18, 2013 10:59:09 PM
ABOUT THE WEEK OF MAY 22, 1964, babies in the woods should be left there. Hikers and sightseers were cautioned by the state Conservation Department against picking up and taking home baby wild animals they may find in the woods and open fields.
Animalnapping runs high in May and June, the department said, and it was a misdemeanor to capture or harbor wild animals. In addition, it could be dangerous. Supervising Wildlife Biologist C. William Severinghaus pointed out that with deer, a wide-eyed fa ...
Last Updated: Saturday, May 18, 2013 10:36:39 PM
Digital trail cameras were just the beginning
The spring gobbler season opened May 1, and the statewide walleye, northern pike, tiger muskie and pickerel seasons opened Saturday, May 4.
As I was prepping for the remaining days of the gobbler seasons (no, I haven't taken both birds yet) I got to thinking about some of my camera equipment. It's often a problem deciding just which camera - or how many - to bring along on any hunting or fishing trip and that really got me thinking about how things ...
Last Updated: Sunday, May 12, 2013 12:43:22 AM
ABOUT THE WEEK OF MAY 15, 1964, a local branch of the United States Postal Service wrote: "It is a pleasure to report to you on the progress your post office is making in our daily efforts to cope with the mounting volume of mail. We may not be the biggest link in the chain of post offices that stretches across the country, and we lack some of the more modern mechanization in the post offices of cities like Detroit and Chicago.
"However, we are the main avenue and still the most economical avenu ...
Last Updated: Sunday, May 12, 2013 12:41:07 AM
Muddy conditions necessitate caution
The NYS Department of Environmental Conservation is warning climbers, hikers and other backcountry trekkers to be careful and cautious on trails above 3,000 feet, until at least early June when trail conditions are expected to be much better. Of course, much of the following information might be moot already, considering the warm spell we've experienced the past week or so.
In any event, trails and vegetation in the higher reaches are most vulnerable to late ...
Last Updated: Saturday, May 04, 2013 8:20:55 PM
Greg O'Hara joins NYS Outdoorsmen Hall of Fame
Last Saturday evening, April 27, I attended the 30th Anniversary and Induction Banquet of the New York State Outdoorsmen Hall of Fame in Canastota.
I was inducted into the Hall of Fame (located at the Wildlife and Sports Educational Museum in Vails Mills) and look forward to these annual gatherings to greet and welcome the new inductees. As a matter of fact, I currently serve on the group's Board of Directors.
This year we welcomed seven new member ...
Last Updated: Friday, May 03, 2013 10:22:43 PM
ABOUT THE WEEK OF MAY 7, 1964, the Louis A. Wehle Fishing Contest would be conducted for the 19th consecutive year, starting April 1, coincidental with the opening of trout season. As in previous years the former conservation commissioner of New York state and chairman of the Genesee Brewing Co. Inc. of Rochester would offer $5,135 in cash prizes for the largest freshwater fish entered in each of 12 classifications.
Prizes would be awarded monthly for the seven months ending Oct. 31, at which ti ...
Last Updated: Monday, April 29, 2013 10:40:54 PM
ABOUT THE WEEK OF MAY 1, 1964, William L. Wessel's latest book was "Moses Cohen, Peddler to Capitalist." The subtitle, "An Adirondack Pioneer Merchant," is exactly what Moses Cohen was. Drawing on his vast knowledge of the history of the Adirondacks and his long personal friendship with Mr. Cohen, the author draws his picture with a sure stroke.
He tells the life of Mr. Cohen, and in so doing also tells us Moses Cohen was a human being and a gentleman. Since other greats and near-greats were hel ...
Last Updated: Monday, April 29, 2013 10:37:59 PM
Ron remembers going for the Gould's
With the statewide spring gobbler season opening today, May 1, I've been giving a lot of thought to the turkey trips I've made over the years and suddenly realized that about five years ago at this time I was in the Sierra Madre Mountains of Mexico seeking my Gould's turkey, the fifth step of my six-bird world slam.
In the movie "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" Fred C. Dobbs (Humphrey Bogart) went to these mountains in search of gold, but I went there in se ...
Last Updated: Monday, April 29, 2013 10:17:00 PM
Introducing a new cat
Cat lovers frequently add new cats to their households. We get calls asking why it sometimes does not work. We wish the calls could come first, before the new cat arrives.
The following can both correct the problem after a failed attempt and smooth the way for an introduction.
Whenever possible, the new cat should be neutered and given its inoculations before being introduced. That way, you avoid an infection being passed on to your whole cat family.
Prepare a room fo ...
Last Updated: Monday, April 22, 2013 1:13:31 PM
ABOUT THE WEEK OF APRIL 24, 1964, boating deaths in New York state during 1963 dropped 11 percent below the previous year, with 66 fatalities reported compared with 74 in 1962, the Conservation Department said recently. James J. O'Brien, director of the department's Division of Motor Boats, said 423 boating mishaps, accounting for 282 personal injuries, were reported in 1963. This compares with 469 accidents and 291 injuries in 1962.
More than half of the accidents could have been avoided, O'Bri ...
Last Updated: Monday, April 22, 2013 1:10:22 PM
It almost doesn't seem possible, but we've finally managed to turn a corner into warmer and better weather and may soon be getting around to doing some fishing. The statewide trout season has been open for over three weeks and we're just now getting into more reasonable fishing conditions. In addition, the spring gobbler season begins May 1, just a week from today.
Generally speaking, the spring turkey season may be less than productive in most areas of the state, simply because our turkey popul ...
Last Updated: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 8:39:41 AM
ABOUT THE WEEK OF APRIL 17, 1964, at a gathering of "Reile for Senator" supporters at Hamilton County, Donald J. Reile, Herkimer, candidate for the 41st Senatorial District, gave the following address: "God made heaven, the earth, man and animals. In each He breathed a certain kind of life and vitality. To needlessly kill an animal is sinful. Yet within recent months we have learned of the needless and cruel slaughter of deer in our North Country.
"It does no good to belabor a point. But the ini ...
Last Updated: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 8:36:57 AM
Canada geese are a valuable natural resource and a source of recreation and enjoyment for bird watchers, hunters and others. Flocks in flight at this time of year are common and a welcome sign of the change in seasons.
However, local-nesting or "resident" geese have become year-round inhabitants of parks, ball fields, waterways, farms, residential areas and golf courses, where they can cause problems. The state Department of Environmental Conservation has information available on its website on ...
Last Updated: Monday, April 08, 2013 9:46:04 PM
Trout anglers in Hamilton County aren't as lucky as some of their counterparts further south, since streams here in the North Country normally receive their first plantings of DEC trout a bit later, usually in the month of May. Winter leaves the North Country reluctantly and normally very slowly, forcing inveterate stream anglers to head a few counties south for better fishing conditions.
Ditto for the county's hike-in, more remote and higher elevation trout ponds. For the most part it'll be at ...
Last Updated: Monday, April 08, 2013 9:49:04 PM
ABOUT THE WEEK OF APRIL 10, 1964, during a recent meeting with Donald L. Collins, state entomologist, Albany, regarding the Black Fly Control Program in the Town of Webb, Herkimer County, it was announced that in 1964 it would be the Conservation Department’s policy not to use the DDT insecticide in the treatment of the streams that flow into lake trout breeding water. For some time it had been the state’s contention that such treatment retarded the propagation of this species of fis ...
Last Updated: Thursday, April 18, 2013 8:54:29 AM
SAFE Act: The governor gets bad advice
I hate to keep harping on some facet or other of the SAFE Act but the doo doo has hit the fan and things that you should be aware of keep happening. First off, I understand Gov. Cuomo has - sort of - abandoned his insistence on a seven-round magazine, most likely because it has finally occurred to him that no one makes an appropriate seven-round magazine for many firearms and no self-respecting magazine manufacturer ever will since there would be such a lim ...
Last Updated: Saturday, April 06, 2013 10:46:39 PM
ABOUT THE WEEK OF APRIL 3, 1964, results of a recent research sampling of deer in the Moose River Plains area of Hamilton County had been announced by the state Conservation Department. Dr. W. Mason Lawrence, assistant commissioner for Fish and Game, said analysis of the 50 deer killed in the five-day wilderness study indicated a local population increase would occur in the Plains deer herds which, unless checked, could lead to severe starvation losses in the immediate future.
Reproductive rates ...
Last Updated: Tuesday, March 26, 2013 5:45:44 PM
ABOUT THE WEEK OF MARCH 20, 1964, Inlet Supervisor Norton Bird wrote a lengthy open letter regarding the slaughter of 50 or more deer in the Moose River Plains by the NYS Conservation Department. Bird was also chairman of the Hamilton County Conservation Committee.
"It is very amusing to read in the papers and hear on radio and television, the almost childish reasons and answers by members of the Conservation Department for the slaughter of some 50 deer by their biologists on the Moose River pla ...
Last Updated: Wednesday, April 03, 2013 10:34:16 AM
Bear take was the third highest ever recorded
According to the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation, NYS bear hunters took 1,337 bruins during the 2012 hunting seasons. This makes last year the third highest bear harvest on record, exceeded only by the 1,864 taken during the 2003 season and the 1,487 during the 2009 season.
On a regional basis, the bear harvest in the Adirondacks increased, but decreased in the southeastern and central-western zones. According to the DEC, the Adirondack ...
Last Updated: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 9:32:15 PM
ABOUT FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1964, In the Adirondack Park, the Adirondack Park Association Inc. went on record as opposing Sen. Eustine Paine's Adirondack Park Commission bill. Paine, of Willsboro, had stated he planned to introduce the bill "for study purposes only." The Adirondack Park Association felt an Adirondack Park Commission was unnecessary, saying its work would be a duplication of various state agencies and a needless expense to the taxpayers.
A similar bill, also opposed by the associatio ...
Last Updated: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 9:33:05 PM
The Schroon Lake Fish & Game Club conducted its 21st annual ice fishing derby March 2 and 3 with over 550 participants.
The top lake trout was a 34-inch, 11.4-pounder brought in by Rick Scholl. Second place in that division went to Steven Parnaby for a 31-incher that came in at 9.99 pounds, followed in third place by Rob Parks with a 6.9-pound, 29-incher. In the northern pike division of the event, first place went to Jeremiah Millington for a 39-inch, 14.9-pounder, followed by Chris Clarke ...
Last Updated: Wednesday, March 13, 2013 7:51:40 PM
ABOUT FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 1964, Pope Paul VI had appointed Monsignor Thomas A. Donnellan, 50, rector of St. Joseph’s Seminary in Yonkers, as Bishop of Ogdensburg. The appointment was announced March 4. Donnellan was a former chancellor of the Archdiocese of New York and secretary to Cardinal Francis Spellman. He succeeded Bishop Leo R. Smith, who had died Oct. 9, 1963 in Rome.
The state Conservation Department reported hunting deaths in New York state had dropped to a near record low in 1963 ...
Last Updated: Wednesday, March 13, 2013 7:48:37 PM
The NYS Department of Environmental Conservation has issued a reminder to all ice anglers that the statewide seasons for tiger muskies, walleyes, northern pike and pickerel close this coming Friday, March 15, just a few days from now, and all shanties must be removed from the ice by that day. Some lakes will begin refilling soon and the ice will begin to break up. Even if the levels remain the same on some waters, daytime temperatures will begin to rise and the ice will break up anyway.
Here in ...
Last Updated: Wednesday, March 06, 2013 6:05:53 PM
ABOUT FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 1964, At HAMILTON COUNTY, the annual Red Cross Campaign was in progress. These local chairmen were carrying on the campaign in their respective communities: Arietta - Mrs. Wilson McGee; Benson - Mrs. Norman Storer; Hope - Mrs. Woodrow Call; Indian Lake - Miss Lenore Turner; Blue Mt. Lake - Mrs. Harvey Carr; Inlet - Mrs. Norton Bird; Lake Pleasant - Mrs. Ashley Perkins; Long Lake - Mrs. Arthur Parker; Raquette Lake - Mrs. Dennis Dillon Jr.; Morehouse - Walter Smith; and Wel ...
Last Updated: Tuesday, March 05, 2013 12:36:51 PM
I am pleased to report a state Supreme Court judge agreed Friday to hear concerns that Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s rush to implement new gun controls may have violated the state Constitution. The governor issued a “message of necessity” to get around the normally required wait on signing a bill, and it wasn’t even debated in the Senate.
The plaintiffs also say the law violates their Second Amendment rights under the U.S. Constitution. The NYS Rifle & Pistol Association filed ...
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