The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), in partnership with the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), is offering a reward of up to $10,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for a Feb. 12, 2026, burglary of a federally licensed firearms dealer in Star Prairie, Wisconsin.
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the May 1, 2026 edition of Wisconsin Outdoor News.
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Staff from DEC’s Bureau of Wildlife spent a day in early March working together to improve habitat for wildlife at French Creek Wildlife Management Area in Jefferson County.
It was almost like the good old days on Monday, April 13, in Vilas County when 103 citizens poured into the St. Germain Elementary School for Wisconsin’s annual spring fish and game hearings proctored by local Conservation Congress delegates and local Department of Natural Resources fish biologists, wildlife biologists and game wardens.
That turnout reminded me of spring hearings back in the late 1980s and early 1990s when more than 100 sportsmen would pile into the Plum Lake town hall in Sayner when guys like Tony Rizzo and Neal Long would raise a skeptical eyebrow at some proposed DNR rule changes, while standing up to champion other proposals.
Dean Bortz: Wisconsin’s Vilas County showcases strong DNR team during spring hearings Read More »
Minnesota anglers are starting to feel it now.
The state’s walleye and pike opener is less than two weeks away. While many anglers will get out onto small bodies of water in the early season, the following lakes are tried and true producers that bring walleye anglers back year after year. Here’s a look at how the ‘Great Eight’ Minnesota waters look heading into the 2026 open-water season.
Here’s the 2026 outlook for Minnesota’s Great 8 walleye lakes Read More »
When the Musky Clubs Alliance of Wisconsin (MCAW) gifted $75,000 last year to the state Department of Natural Resources, it was with the intent of helping the agency stock more muskies in northeastern Wisconsin waters. Instead, the alliance got a case of indigestion.
Saying the issue gave him “heartburn,” MCAW President Dave Allen, of Kaukauna, questioned how the DNR spent the donated money during the MCAW’s directors meeting April 11 in Stevens Point.
Wisconsin Musky Clubs Alliance asking where money it donated to DNR went to Read More »
After debris from recent storms, the Wisconsin DNR is encouraging
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Wisconsin’s fisheries program is facing a projected $7.3 million budget shortfall in fiscal year 2027 (starting July 1).
This shortfall means forced proposed cuts that include up to 70% reductions in some fish stocking efforts, the potential closure of two state hatcheries, and scaled-back habitat and survey work across hundreds of waters statewide.
Wisconsin DNR fish program looking at $7.3 million budget shortfall Read More »
Upcoming events this spring will help women develop a variety of outdoors skills.
These will include the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s Becoming an Outdoors Woman (BOW) Bowhunting 101 Workshop, which takes place May 15-17 at the Great Camp Sagamore, in Raquette Lake, Hamilton County.
Events coming up in New York designed to teach women outdoors skills Read More »
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