Syracuse.com - Figura working on outdoor activities for New Year's Day, his 2014 bucket list

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HAPPY HOLIDAYS!! Here's what I'm working on: - I'm proposing a new tradition -- getting outdoors on New Year's Day. Don't be a couch potato. Consider a hike, or maybe a cross country ski or snowshoe outing. I'm assembling a list of locations. - My outdoors bucket list for 2014. What's on your list? Send ideas to me at [email protected]....

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!

Here's what I'm working on:

- I'm proposing a new tradition -- getting outdoors on New Year's Day. Don't be a couch potato. Consider a hike, or maybe a cross country ski or snowshoe outing. I'm assembling a list of locations.

- My outdoors bucket list for 2014. What's on your list? Send ideas to me at [email protected].

- An update on the Wild Boar War. The DEC wants to ban the hunting of them. Seen any lately in CNY? Send your comments and photos to me at [email protected].

- A profile on Steven Fland, a sculptor who specializes in wildlife...

- A follow to the story about the Peterboro woman who was ticketed by the DEC for keeping a fawn as pet.

- Extreme Outdoors winter adventures. Folks do all sort of daring and dangerous things each winter around Central New York and the Adirodacks.

- The special Tompkins County deer hunting season that spans the month of January. What worked, what didn't work about it last year and why.

- A Q&A with Stephen Wowelko, departing president of the Onondaga Federation of Sportsmen's Clubs.

ANYTHING ELSE READERS OF THIS REPORT WOULD LIKE TO SEE ME WRITE ABOUT?

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