{"id":217695,"date":"2026-05-02T14:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T14:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/217695\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T14:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T14:48:10","slug":"nys-department-of-environmental-conservation-announces-new-hunter-achievement-awards-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/217695\/","title":{"rendered":"NYS Department of Environmental Conservation announces new Hunter Achievement Awards Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALBANY, N.Y. \u2014 New York State has launched a new Hunter Achievement Awards Program to recognize hunters and trappers who legally harvest game species. <\/p>\n<p>The Department of Environmental Conservation says the program offers commemorative stickers for 24 game species, including wild turkey. Hunters and trappers must submit an entry form with a photo of their harvest within 30 days of the season closing. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNew York offers diverse and high-quality hunting and trapping opportunities,\u201d\u00a0said Commissioner Lefton.\u00a0\u201cThese awards highlight not only the harvest, but also the commitment of\u00a0hunters and trappers to conservation of natural resources across New York.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Only legal harvests will be considered for awards.<\/p>\n<p>More information on the awards can be found on the <a href=\"https:\/\/dec.ny.gov\/things-to-do\/hunting\/new-york-hunter-achievement-awards\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/dec.ny.gov\/things-to-do\/hunting\/new-york-hunter-achievement-awards\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DEC\u2019s website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFor Related Stories:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whec.com\/tag\/nysdec\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NYSDEC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALBANY, N.Y. \u2014 New York State has launched a new Hunter Achievement Awards Program to recognize hunters and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50,19582],"class_list":["post-217695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","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\/217695","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=217695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}