Wisconsin bear hunters will have to wait until Jan. 28, 2026, to find out for certain, but there’s a better than even chance they will see a healthy increase in bear harvest tags for 2026.
That’s the date Natural Resources Board (NRB) members will take up a Department of Natural Resources (DNR) recommendation on next year’s black bear harvest quota and harvest tag numbers.
Wisconsin bear hunt could see more tags in 2026 Read More »
In case you weren’t sure (because every boat leaves a wake), a wakeboat is, as its name suggests, a large, heavy boat that sits deeper in the water than the average boat, and creates a large wake for those wanting to “surf” behind it – known as “wake sports.
Should we leave wakeboats in our wake in Minnesota? Read More »
At 4:54 a.m. on opening day of the 2025 bowhunting season, a curious Illinois hunter took one last sip of coffee and paused before shutting down his laptop to head out his back door toward the woods.
“I wondered to myself if ChatGPT knew where I could find a deer?” Matt Carlson said, recalling that awkward thought. “So I typed in that exact question.”
Carlson laughs out loud when he describes the answer the Artificial Intelligence (AI) website offered. AI wasn’t much help to Carlson. but it is on the list of technologies being closely eyed by DNR’s Office of Law Enforcement.
Artificial intelligence won’t find you a deer, but may find you trouble as a hunter Read More »
The Wisconsin DNR released its preliminary totals for license sales
WI Daily Update: DNR releases preliminary numbers from 2025 firearms deer season Read More »
The Minnesota DNR’s EagleCam went live on Dec. 2. Listen
MN Daily Update: DNR’s EagleCam goes live for the season Read More »
I can’t believe we’ve nearly reached the end of another year of enjoying Wisconsin’s great outdoors, with a wonderful Thanksgiving still close in the rearview mirror and Christmas just around the corner.
We have more snow than we might care to have right now, but at least it didn’t fall on newly forming ice – at least in my neck of the woods. Most of our medium and large lakes in north-central Wisconsin were not sheeted by ice yet when the big snow fell from Nov. 24-27.
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