New York’s early bear and antlerless deer seasons are underway
New York’s 2026-27 early big-game hunting seasons are underway, opening the calendar with an early bear season across 11 Southern Zone wildlife management units and an expanded early antlerless deer season across 23 more. The Southern Zone early bear season runs September 12 through September 27 in wildlife management units 3A, 3C, 3H, 3J, 3K, […]
Minnesota archery deer season opens Sept. 19
Minnesota’s archery deer season opens Saturday, September 19, and runs through Thursday, December 31, with hunters entering the first full season under a new statewide electronic licensing system. The 2025 archery season set a state record with 30,043 deer harvested, roughly split between crossbows and vertical bows, and antlerless animals accounted for 55 percent of […]
Michigan fall turkey and small-game seasons open Tuesday
Michigan’s fall hunting seasons open Tuesday, September 15, with turkey, ruffed grouse, woodcock, snowshoe hare, cottontail rabbit and gray squirrel among the species now legal to pursue statewide. Fall turkey hunters will operate under two management units for the season, which runs September 15 through November 14. Turkey Management Unit M covers the entire Upper […]
Arkansas honors six partners at private-lands habitat expo
Arkansas Game and Fish honored six partners at the 2026 Natural State Private Lands Expo, spotlighting habitat work across nearly 100,000 acres in the program’s first full year, 2024.
Wyoming Outdoor Hall of Fame to add four conservation figures
Wyoming Game and Fish will induct Talbott, Binns, Budd and Welch into the Wyoming Outdoor Hall of Fame on Nov. 5 in Cody.
Kentucky rewrites damage-tag rules to cover more than deer
Kentucky Fish and Wildlife’s 301 KAR 2:176 rewrite retitles the damage-tag chapter to cover all wildlife causing property damage, effective June 4, 2026.
Pennsylvania opens 8 fall driving tours on state game lands
The Pennsylvania Game Commission will host eight free fall driving tours across state game lands from Sept. 20 through Oct. 18, 2026.
Louisiana opens first stand-alone whistling-duck hunt Oct 3-11
Louisiana’s first stand-alone black-bellied whistling-duck season runs Oct 3-11 with a free permit, four-bird daily limit, and a 15-day harvest report.
Idaho leans on hunters to hold elk off Magic Valley crops in 2026
Idaho Fish and Game is working with landowners across eight Magic Valley counties to blunt fall elk depredation on high-value irrigated crops.
Colorado’s 87-to-1 shot: 66,000 hunters chased 761 moose tags
Colorado’s 2026 moose license lottery drew 66,000 applicants for 761 tags. Nonresidents faced odds of 205 to 1 or worse for a bull tag.