Byline: Dick Nelson
It's hard to believe we are coming to the end of another trail. But by midnight tonight, 1995 will have become history, and for some, it's not a minute too soon. Looking at it from a sportsman's point of view, it had its share of ups and downs.
Here are just a few of the stories that made news over the past 12 months: JANUARY
Aside from Gov. George Pataki taking over as chief executive, the biggest news of the month was the announcement that whirling disease a parasitic malady that prompted the Department of Environmental Conservation to destroy 570,000 rainbow and steelhead trout at four of its 12 hatcheries in 1994 had been discovered in wild rainbow trout in more than a dozen streams.
That was the bad news. The good news is that all four of the infected hatcheries are currently disease-free. FEBRUARY
In a decision that still …
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