The U.S. Forest Service Wants to Fine You $1,000 for Taking Pictures in the Forest

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When Pete Grannis' DEC did this in 2010, the environmentalists embraced it as the good thing ... And NY State didn't just do this for wilderness but ALL state land in their regulations.

"6 NYCCR 190 Section ee. On State lands, no person shall sponsor, conduct or participate in: advertising, weddings, commercial film making activities or film making activities that exclude other public use of the area, and other similar events, except under permit from the department."

http://www.dec.ny.gov/regs/4081.html#12996

Then again, Manhattan liberal politicians care about the environment more then the US Forest Service. They have Central Park, after all, and a very polluted part of the Hudson River. The US Forest Service, in contrast is run by Tom Tidwell, who has spent his career working on forest management issues.

Dry End to the Month

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It's been a fairly dry month so far, but hopefully we will get some by mid-next week.

Last Friday of September Update

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Good Morning! A Delightful Fall Friday. That’s the best way to describe today’s weather. It’s about 49 degrees out, and now that the fog has burnt off, it’s going to get up to upper 70s by afternoon. The weekend is looks pretty nice.

Still looking to get out Schoharie or maybe the Adirondacks on Saturday evening. I have stuff to do tonight and tomorrow morning but hopefully I still will be able to get out of town. It’s difficult to head up to the Adirondacks after work at this point, because it’s dark by 6:40 PM, and it means driving a lot of miles in darkness, with horny bucks racing across the road.

The colors would be better in the Adirondacks, but if I am down in the Hudson Valley on Saturday, Schoharie or maybe the Catskills makes more sense. I think it would be fun to get down to Northwestern Catskills, where the leaves are likely to be most colorful. I have fallen in love with the general Roxbury-area around John Burrough’s cabin. The cabin maybe closed this weekend, but his grave site is still pretty nice with views of Catskills. Then maybe take a scenic drive over to Mount Utsayathana. Also could pick up veggies to freeze at Shaul’s.

The following weekend, assuming the weather is nice, I would probably take a Central NY trip. I haven’t totally worked out the destinations, but probably Charles Baker State Forest or Stony Pond State Forest. Might do some fishing in Nelson Swamp, and somewhere along the way see if I can drop some tree rats while enjoying the fall foliage. Hopefully the leaves won’t be gone by then – they seem to drop early in that part of state.

Next week is October, and it will be turkey season around here. Not sure how much of the fall turkey season I will be participating in, as I will be busy with work and need to get some more gear for turkey season, but so be it. I probably will do more hunting during the spring turkey season, which is always those nice weeks in late April in the Adirondacks. I have some ideas of where to hunt in the Adirondacks already for spring turkey.