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December 27, 2025

Oak Duke: A great hunt during the heart of the whitetail rut

It’s bound to happen. Viewed from a big pine tree. Wind and thermal perfect, in my face, overlooking an active licking branch scrape in a funnel above an impenetrable bedding area.
Halloween, was a few days earlier. It was dead quiet. After an hour of nothing… a doe flew past. Flat out. A marvel to watch something that large speed through trees.

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Planting trees this spring? Here’s how to up your odds of success in Wisconsin

There are somewhere around 11.5 billion live trees in Wisconsin. That number should stay robust if the DNR and private citizens continue a longstanding history of reforestation in the state.
Every spring, the Wisconsin DNR distributes 3 to 5 million seedlings in an ongoing effort to bolster the state’s forests. The initiative depends on a public nursery that helps landowners create habitat, lumber, scenery and more.

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Ryan Rothstein: It’s back to the basics for last-call whitetails

It’s amazing to me how much gusto I used to have for deer hunting.
Come hell or high water (or blizzards), my high school and college self would run headlong into the ground during the course of a deer season, and by the time we hit New Year’s Day, I didn’t even want to think about hunting for at least a month or two. Even in years when December was brutal, I was undeterred.

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Gretchen Steele: New Year’s resolutions that keep us coming back

By the time this column finds its way to your kitchen table or the console of your truck, the calendar will be close to rolling over once again.
The Christmas lights may have already been packed away – though I’ll admit, no one is that ambitious at our house this year, and the coffee in your mug might be poured a little stronger these mornings. Maybe, like me, you’ve paused at the window before heading out, watching that faint winter sunrise glaze the fields or the frozen pond, and thought, “Well… here we are again.”

Gretchen Steele: New Year’s resolutions that keep us coming back Read More »

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