DEC Educational Camp Offering

BRGC is currently accepting applications from members in good standing, immediate family and youth members between the age of 11-14 for two one-week camper sponsorship to a DEC Environmental Education Camps. DEC camps are one of the best kept secrets in the state! The DEC camp program includes a variety of workshops and activities that help campers become more aware of the environment around them and learn how to be good stewards of our natural resources. Activities and workshops are conducted outdoors, providing campers with direct hand-on experiences with their environment.

NYSDEC has four residential youth summer camps:

• Camp Colby- located on western shore of Lake Colby (Franklin County)
• Pack Forest- located in southern Adirondacks north of Warrensburg.
• Camp DeBruce- located in the southern Catskill near Livingston Manner.
• Camp Rushford- located in the Hanging Bog Wildlife Management Area (Allegany County)

Camps starts first week in July and run through second full week of August.

Please click HERE for additional information.

Only 2 sponsorships available, campers will be selected on a first come first serve basis with a random drawing If there are more than two camper request.

If interested please contact BRGC Board member David Dunn ASAP @ 845-496-6481 or daveii@frontiernet.net

All applications need to be postmarked on January 28, 2012.

Pheasant Preserve Open

The pheasant preserve is open. The final bird release of the season will be done on 12/31/2011. Remember, no hunting before 9:00 AM, all hunters must sign in and out, all hunters must wear blaze orange, no discharging a firearm with in 500 ft of a dwelling, no hunting in standing corn or on the Christmas tree farm.

Trap Range Update

Trap range will be closed Sunday mornings beginning 11/13/11. Trap will be open each Monday evening beginning 5:00 PM.

Newsletter now available to download

The final newsletter for the year is now available to download. Click here or follow the link on the left.