Conservationist Recent Issues

Highlights of the October/November 2024 issue:

• Building community through bowhunting
• Dam removal 
• Cover crops
• Ring-necked pheasants
• A North-South Lake adventure
• Sustainability upgrades to DEC’s High Peaks interior outposts

And more!

Highlights of the August/September 2024 issue:

• Tracking New York's bobcats
• CleanSweepNY
• Land conservation in the Tug Hill region
• Wolves and coyotes in New York State
• Climate Smart Communities
• Burying beetles

And more!

Highlights of the June/July 2024 issue:

• The Haudenosaunee conservation ethic
• Community forests
• 100 years of the Northville-Placid Trail
• The legacy of ECO Powell
• Green and sustainable remediation
• Environmental DNA
• Students research Great Sacandaga Lake walleye

And more!

• Marine fish records
• Air quality forecasting
• The legacy of Ranger Murray
• Seneca Lake's hidden secrets
• Muskellunge conservation and management
• Sustainable landscaping
• And more!

• Learn about wetlands and groundwater and how DEC protects both
• An eclipse is coming!
• Read about ongoing moose research
• Meet the female fire tower observers
• Prepare for spring planting season
• And more!

Highlights of the December 2023/January 2024 issue:

• Read about DEC highlights from around New York State
• Enjoy the 2024 Conservationist calendar

And more!

Highlights of the October/November 2023 issue include:

• Revitalizing New York's industrial past
• Creating new conservationists through turkey hunting
• 2022 white-tailed deer harvest summary
• Picking the perfect hunting dog
• Biological monitoring in the Hudson and Mohawk Rivers
• Recycle Right New York

And much more!

Highlights of the redesigned August/September 2023 issue include:

• Fighting wildfires
• Prescribed burning
• Hunters protecting eagles
• Sharks
• DEC and University at Albany in STEP
• Camping quiz

And more!

Highlights of the June/July 2023 issue include:

• Old growth forests in the Catskills
• New York State historical markers
• Fishing excursions for kids with cancer
• Accessible recreation
• Staghorn sumac
• Civilian Conservation Corps 90th anniversary
• Hummingbird moths

And much more!

Highlights of the April/May 2023 issue include:

• Fishing and turkey hunting stories
• The plight of native pollinators
• Return of whip-poor-wills to the Albany Pine Bush
• Restoring the Hudson Raritan Estuary
• American shad restoration

And more!

Highlights of the February/March 2023 issue include:

• The Cobleskill Lovebirds
• Capital District Wildlife Management Area
• Fingerposts
• Nature Journaling
• Game Protector Bryan Burgin
• Tracking wildlife and banding birds

And much more!