Moose Whose Lingering Closed Mountain Trail for 2 Months Is Euthanized

New York environmental conservation officials had observed a sharp decline in the animal’s health that gave it “a low likelihood of survival.”

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Lingering Moose Shuts Down Popular Adirondack Trail for a Month

Sickness, not stubbornness, is the most likely explanation for the animal’s “unusual behaviors,” which prompted the unusually long closure, officials said.

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Two Men’s Fight to Protect the Geese at the Central Park Reservoir

Two New York men who bonded over bird-watching at the Central Park Reservoir are united in their efforts to save the nests of its resident Canada geese.

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Ed Van Put, Who Hooked Jimmy Carter on the Catskills, Dies at 88

A master fly-fisherman, author and conservationist, he guided the famous, including a former president, and the not-so-famous in the hunt for rainbow trout.

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New York Raises These Pheasants to Be Shot. Is It Hunting or Cruelty?

Some lawmakers hope to end a program that is meant to introduce children to field sports but that critics say makes the birds easy targets, if they don’t die another way.

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