{"id":173508,"date":"2026-03-24T18:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T18:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/173508\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T18:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T18:01:09","slug":"dec-2025-new-york-hunting-season-safest-on-record-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/173508\/","title":{"rendered":"DEC: 2025 New York Hunting Season Safest on Record | Local"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Hunting\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/688cea8a5dd5b.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>ALBANY, N.Y. &#8212; New York\u2019s 2025 hunting season was the safest ever recorded.<\/p>\n<p>The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation reported that there were seven hunting-related shooting incidents in 2025, with five being self-inflicted and two involving more than one person.<\/p>\n<p>One of the incidents involved an unlicensed person hunting illegally.<\/p>\n<p>No shooting fatalities were reported during the 2025 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap mt-3 overflow-auto text-sm break-words\">The DEC also documented nine falls from tree stands or elevated platforms, including one fatality.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap mt-3 overflow-auto text-sm break-words\">Officials said hunters can prevent severe injuries or death by wearing and properly using a fall-arrest system that keeps them attached to the tree at all times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALBANY, N.Y. &#8212; New York\u2019s 2025 hunting season was the safest ever recorded. The New York State Department&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2586,70744,2199,22478,9,11,10,49,51,50,19582],"class_list":["post-173508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-dec","tag-dept-of-environmental-conservation","tag-hunting","tag-hunting-season","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-nysdec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}