Hunting draws over half a million people to New York’s forests and fields each year. Here’s three topics of conversation New Yorker hunters should know about before heading afield this fall.

Chris Potter

Binghamton Press & Sun-BulletinView Comments

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• Hunting is accessible to anyone in New York with a license as the state offers thousands of acres of public lands open to hunters. Deer season provides many with an inflation-proof source of meat.
• Hunting serves an important ecological function to keep deer populations in check. Overabundance is disrupting the regeneration of forests and leaving deer more susceptible to diseases like CWD.
• Predators like wolves and mountain lions once kept deer numbers in balance. Genetic testing confirmed a canid killed during the 2021 coyote hunting season was actually a wolf. Its origins are unknown.

It’s a tradition that draws over half a million people to New York’s fields…