Metro Area Fishing Report – August 24, 2025 – video
The summer-ish patterns are still in full swing.
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August 24, 2025
Hunting in comfort: Is a box blind the best option for your top deer spot?
Thirty years ago, you could tune into outdoor programming and if there was a whitetail hunting episode on, there was a good chance it was filmed in Texas.
There was also a good chance that the host would have been hunting out of a box blind of some sort. At that same time, steel hang-on stands that weighed enough to snap a tow rope were pretty standard in the Upper Midwest.
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Christine Thomas: Bobcats thrive in Wisconsin’s Driftless Region; and at the little cabin
“Christine, I am looking for blurbs for my book. I know you have things to do, but if it works out …” messaged Al Cornell, a retired Wisconsin DNR wildlife technician, author, photographer, and one of my Facebook friends.
He lives in the Driftless Region of Wisconsin on the family farm. Last year he published an amazing book called A Year at a Beaver Pond: Observations from One Little Dynamic Ecosystem. I was honored that he asked me to do a “blurb” for the back cover of his new book, Bobcats Return to the Driftless Area: Including a Pictorial Chronology of a Mother and Kittens.
Hunters and other conservationists can lead by example when it comes to reducing window collisions with wood cocks, other birds
In the cold of February, a bird was found dead on the sidewalk of Philadelphia, killed after colliding with a building window. It was an American woodcock, or timberdoodle – an iconic game bird of eastern North America, adored by nature lovers and hunters alike.
According to the banding and encounter data managed by the U.S. Geological Survey’s Bird Banding Lab, part of the Eastern Ecological Science Center in Maryland, this woodcock was a female, age 2, banded in Concordia Parish, Louisiana, in January 2023, just one year before its death.
