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  • 09-19-2026 West Virginia Outdoors with Chris Lawrence

    09-19-2026 West Virginia Outdoors with Chris Lawrence
    2026/09/19
    Chris Lawrence broadcasts live from Stonewall Resort State Park in Lewis County for the DNR's annual National Hunting and Fishing Day celebration. DNR Director Brett McMillan and Wildlife Chief Paul Johansson join Lawrence to break down the economic weight of hunting and fishing in West Virginia — 598,000 licensed hunters and anglers generating more than $41 million in annual spending and 2.1% of the state's GDP — and explain how Pittman-Robertson and Dingell-Johnson excise taxes generate $11 to $12 million in federal conservation funding for the state each year. Newly promoted Colonel Dave Trader of the DNR Law Enforcement section discusses the swift water rescue and underwater drone technology deployed during recent flooding events, the division's canine corps, and an ongoing hiring push to reach full staffing of 126 officers. Chef Marion Holanger of Little Mountain Creek Lodge at Pipestem State Park previews the Taste of State Parks luncheon — an Appalachian-focused wild game menu featuring deer, rabbit, duck, elk, and wild boar. Mike Booth of the On the Limb Podcast closes the show, previewing the podcast's three live recordings at the event.
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    54 分
  • 09-12-2026 West Virginia Outdoors with Chris Lawrence

    09-12-2026 West Virginia Outdoors with Chris Lawrence
    2026/09/12
    Chris Lawrence marks opening day of squirrel season with a full hour alongside Dave Arnold, co-founder of Class VI River Runners — which became Adventures on the Gorge — and one of the pioneers of the commercial whitewater rafting industry in West Virginia. Arnold traces the history of Gauley Season from its scrappy origins in a 1956 Safeway trailer to the congressional legislation championed by Congressman Nick Rahall that made downstream recreation an official project purpose of Summersville Dam, securing the annual fall water releases that now draw rafters from around the world. He also shares the inside story of the New River Gorge's elevation from national river to national park and preserve in 2020 — crediting Senators Capito and Manchin — and explains how the preserve designation protected hunting rights that nearly derailed the effort. The conversation also covers fishing on the Gauley's flat water below Swift, the economic boom across Fayetteville, Hinton, and surrounding communities, and Arnold's observation that the National Park designation benefited local towns more than the rafting industry itself.
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    54 分
  • 09-05-26 West Virginia Outdoors with Chris Lawrence

    09-05-26 West Virginia Outdoors with Chris Lawrence
    2026/09/05
    Chris Lawrence opens the show with Tyler Harmon of Ravenswood, who recounts landing a new state record blue catfish — 72.75 pounds — from the Ohio River's Ravenswood Pool on a spontaneous Friday evening trip with his four-year-old son and father, kept alive overnight in a tackle shop tank before being officially weighed and released. DNR wildlife biologist Keith Krantz then joins for a wide-ranging conversation on West Virginia's squirrel season, which opens to youth hunters this weekend and to the general public the following Saturday — covering mast crop conditions, squirrel biology, the decline of squirrel hunting participation, the woodsmanship skills the sport builds in young hunters, and the debate between shotgun and rifle. Paul Redford of Chief Logan State Park Lodge closes the show previewing guided elk viewing tours at Tomlin Wildlife Management Area running weekends from September 13th through October 22nd, with morning and afternoon departures and a new elk observation tower on site.
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    44 分
  • 08-29-2026 WV Outdoors with Chris Lawrence

    08-29-2026 WV Outdoors with Chris Lawrence
    2026/08/29
    On this episode of West Virginia Outdoors, Chris talks with Ron Bierstine on the current state of fishing in Lake Ontario (or Lake America), and Colin Carpenter from the DNR Bear Project talks about the opening day of bear hunting season.
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    54 分
  • 08-22-2026 WV Outdoors with Chris Lawrence

    08-22-2026 WV Outdoors with Chris Lawrence
    2026/08/22
    On this episode of West Virginia Outdoors, Chris talks with Steve Rauch from the WV DNR about the upcoming hunting seasons for doves and geese, and Larry Nibert with West Virginia Experience talks about the impact of excessive rain on commercial rafting and fishing.
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    54 分
  • 08/15/26 West Virginia Outdoors with Chris Lawrence

    08/15/26 West Virginia Outdoors with Chris Lawrence
    2026/08/15
    Chris Lawrence continues the summer's remarkable pumpkinseed sunfish story, interviewing Robert Glover of Morgantown — the third angler to break the state record in less than a month — who caught a 9.76-inch, three-quarter-pound fish at Cheat Lake using a long-rod drift technique with a nightcrawler. Lawrence notes the record has now changed hands three times before it could even make the full news cycle. The show then shifts to deer season preparation with Chris Ashley of Mineral Wells, a dedicated whitetail hunter who was awarded Buck of the Year by the West Virginia Big Bucks Facebook page for a six-and-a-half-year-old deer harvested during last year's EHD outbreak. Ashley details his year-round approach to habitat management — including clover food plots on more than 500 acres across three properties, invasive removal, and protein supplement tubs that have helped deer populations rebound dramatically in EHD-hit areas of the Mid-Ohio Valley.
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    54 分
  • 08/08/2026 - West Virginia Outdoors with Chris Lawrence

    08/08/2026 - West Virginia Outdoors with Chris Lawrence
    2026/08/08
    Chris Lawrence opens with a tribute to DNR Commissioner and West Virginia Trappers Association legend Janet Hamrick Hodge, who passed away overnight after a private battle with advanced cancer — read her resignation letter to the commission just days earlier. The show then tells the remarkable story of West Virginia's first-ever state record pumpkinseed sunfish, set by Ken Neher of Morgantown from a public pond in Preston County after a year and a half of targeted pursuit — a record that was broken within two weeks by Sierra Adamson of Beverly, who caught hers on a nightcrawler in the Tygart River in Elkins, and has since been broken a third time at Cheat Lake. DNR furbearer biologist Holly Morris closes the show explaining the science behind the Natural Resources Commission's decision to increase the otter trapping bag limit from one to two — stopping short of three due to population modeling showing the risk of regional extirpation — and addresses how the agency handles otter nuisance complaints and accidental catches above the limit.
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    54 分
  • 08-01-2026 WV Outdoors with Chris Lawrence

    08-01-2026 WV Outdoors with Chris Lawrence
    2026/08/01
    On this episode of West Virginia Outdoors, Chris talks with Katie Zipfel from the WV DNR on the Ohio River carp populations. Plus, a previously enjoyed fishing trip off the coast of North Carolina.
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    54 分