Outdoor Recreation News

If and when 11-year-old Kyle Adamski sees a deer in the crosshairs of his rifle's scope this weekend, his father, Randy, will be just an arm's length away.

BATON ROUGE - The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries is alerting hunters that flooding conditions along the Ouachita and Boeuf rivers will reduce the available hunting area within the Boeuf Wildlife Management Area in Caldwell Parish.

Federal officials are backing a plan to remove five million pounds of unwanted carp each year from Utah Lake near Provo in an effort to save an endangered fish.The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Thursday released a draft assessment of the project and is recommending that it move ahead.

Published online 11/19/2009 10:22 PM Aaron Hysell, 12, and other youth hunters walk a pasture for birds during a youth pheasant hunt north of Hutchinson earlier this month.

The not-so-sweet truth about sugar Evidence is mounting that a diet high in sugar may lead to hypertension and heart disease.

South Carolina shoppers will get a second chance to buy tax-free guns. The state Revenue Department sent out a reminder Wednesday of the upcoming "Second Amendment Weekend." The 48-hour tax break begins just after midnight the Friday after Thanksgiving.

Yellowstone-area grizzly bears will stay on the list of threatened and endangered species, at least for now.

State police have been searching for three men who allegedly beat a homeless man with poles and clubs as he slept in a tent in a wooded area of western Pennsylvania.

The body of 26-year-old Chad Stroup, of Columbia, was found only 1,000 feet from his truck Wednesday afternoon, which was located one and a half miles down Birch Run Road in Michaux State Forest.

GOLD BEACH - With current and anticipated rains and resulting higher flows in the Chetco River, officials with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife have decided to reopen the lower river beginning Thursday to fishing for Chinook salmon.

Jamey Mosch Jamey Mosch, who got separated from his hunting group Monday afternoon in the Big Cypress National Preserve, is believed to be between a mile and two miles north of Interstate 75's Alligator Alley near Turner River Road , marked as a vertical, dotted line in the center of this National Park Service map of the area.

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DNA taken from 69 crocodiles housed in the moats of the Phnom Tamao Wildlife Rescue Center showed nearly 50 percent were Siamese crocodiles, which until recently were believed to have become extinct in the wild, researchers said Wednesday.

Thousands of stargazers stayed awake overnight for what was forecast as an intense Leonid meteor shower over Asia this year, but the show fizzled rather than sizzled for many viewers - partly due to cloud cover.

In this April 17, 2002 file photo, a Thai carver works on with ivory of an image of a Buddhist monk in Nakhon Sawan province, Thailand.

A federal judge says the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation should have considered the environmental impacts before moving forward with a plan to protect a threatened California fish species.

The body of a missing 19-year-old has been recovered from southern Oregon's Iron Gate Lake.

A 14-year-old boy caught a red-bellied piranha fishing in a retention pond near West Palm Beach.

Slow walking may not only mean getting to your destination later but it could also be taking its toll on your health, according to a French study.

Jeremy Bloom won't get the Olympic medal he dreamed of through so many years of juggling his skiing and football ambitions.