Author: Megan Plete Postol
Megan Plete Postol
Megan Plete Postol is an award-winning outdoor journalist covering hunting, angling, conservation, environmental issues, and outdoor news. She lives near the base of the Adirondack Mountains, where she loves to fish, hike, kayak, camp, snowshoe, and hunt. Her work has appeared in numerous outdoor publications, including Meateater, Wide Open Spaces, Outdoor News, All Outdoor, Miss Pursuit, Harvesting Nature, and more. Plete Postol is the author of the Women’s Perspectives column in the Trappers Post magazine. She is a member of the Association of Great Lakes Outdoor Writers, Outdoor Writers Association of America, and serves on the board of the New York State Outdoor Writers Association. She has a B.S. in Public Relations & Journalism from Utica University. She also serves as the New York Ambassador for Artemis Sportswomen, an initiative of the National Wildlife Federation that tasks ambassadors with conservation advocacy, mentorship, and organizing events for women to learn outdoor skills, such as hunting, fishing, and trapping.
Anyone who has hunted behind a well-trained bird dog knows that the experience can feel like walking within a midcentury painting. There is a timelessness to it. The frosty breeze winds through the crunchy wisps of dried grasses leftover from the summer lush. Hunters walk carefully behind the dog and wait for cues. The canine is well-attuned to its surroundings and telepathically connected to its handler as they work the landscape, on a mission to drum up a flurry of feathers, which will be met with the cadence of shotgun blasts. Bird dogs, often referred to interchangeably as gun dogs,…
Honoring a Legendary Turkey Hunting Mentor in West Virginia The turkey population numbers in Wayne County, West Virginia were dismal until one day a man named Roscoe Spaulding led the charge to re-populate turkeys in the region, poult by poult until the hills once again sang with the early morning gobbling of healthy, thriving, turkey flocks. Turkey hunter Roscoe “Poppy” Spaulding knew the turkey hunting around his hometown of Stepptown WV was not as good as it could be and wanted to do something about it. He was not the type to sit back and lament the bad luck of…
A hidden gem is nestled in the unsuspecting hills of Central New York State, and its name is Vernon National Shooting Preserve. It’s a heritage location for the modern sportsman: a generational family farm that has been lovingly converted into a full-service shooting sports and upland hunting center. It’s a complete package for anyone who loves to pull a trigger. Vernon National Shooting Preserve is not only a premier pheasant hunt destination, but it’s also a recreational target shooter’s dream with a wide range of options, including two fully automated sporting clays courses with 16 stations, fully lit trap field,…