MORGANTOWN – 15 years. 15,000 pounds of donated meat. 0 safety incidents. For organizer Rick Bebout, those numbers tell the tale of the Morgantown Urban Archery Deer Hunt, and support his claim that it’s “the best volunteer-based program the city has.” This year’s hunt, ...
MORGANTOWN -- For the second consecutive year, a record number of deer were harvested during Morgantown’s annual urban archery hunt. The 134-day 2024-’25 season concluded Jan. 31 with a total of 143 deer killed. That number includes 32 antlered bucks and 111 antlerless deer. The ...
With hunting season progressing, I’ve been thinking about the wildlife surrounding me. It’s a notable day when I don’t see deer nearby, or at least the evidence they leave behind. Over the summer, they ate all the buckwheat I planted, nibbled the tops off my cucumbers, stunting their ...
COMMENTARY BY DR. DAVE SAMUEL In March 2008, health officials in North Dakota, Minnesota and Iowa restricted the use of venison in food pantries because of fragments of lead bullets in the meat. Before that lead fragments were found in California condors that consumed gut piles from big ...
Before I was deep in the rabbit hole of the whitetail hunting world, I was exploring how to cook healthy and consistently delicious meals. I remember leaving my house in Ritchie County and embarking on a four-year journey in Morgantown, attending West Virginia for my undergraduate ...