Late March into early April might be the most underrated window of the year for getting kids outside.
It’s easy to wait for “real spring” or push plans into summer, but once school lets out, schedules fill fast – camps, games, vacations, and long, hot days that tend to pull everyone back indoors by afternoon. Good intentions get crowded out.
Gretchen Steele: Ideas for getting kids outdoors before summer chaos Read More »
Every outdoorsperson thirsts for that once-in-a-lifetime hunting or fishing trip. It could be a fly-fishing adventure on a famed Western river, a peacock bass pursuit in the Amazon or, perhaps, an elk hunt in the Rockies.
They are all worthy of a dream, but what has fueled my dreams are not first-time adventures that I long for, but, instead, activities that I’ve done before and I look forward to doing again, year after year.
Glenn Sapir: Traditions are a foundation of outdoor pursuits Read More »
A panel of three women educators with the Friends of the Boundary Waters gathered online recently to discuss their work bringing Minnesota youth, many of them for the very first time, into the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.
The webinar, titled “Women Guiding the Next Generation in the Boundary Waters,” was hosted in honor of International Women’s Day last month and spotlighted the organization’s education program, No Boundaries to the Boundary Waters.
Women guiding the Boundary Water’s next generation Read More »
With temperatures hitting the 50s, the ice fishing season is behind us, but the action is just getting started in the coulees and under the bridges.
North Dakota Fishing Report – April 3, 2026 – video Read More »
Roughly 3,000 whitetails from 16 Michigan counties were lost to Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease (EHD) during 2025, DNR veterinarian R. Scott Larsen told the Natural Resources Commission at their March meeting.
The estimate of losses to the disease only include those from counties where EHD was confirmed to be the cause of death through laboratory examination.
What toll did EHD take on Michigan’s deer in 2025? Numbers shed some light Read More »
President Donald Trump’s administration will move the U.S. Forest Service headquarters out of the nation’s capital to Salt Lake City as part of an organizational overhaul that involves shuttering research facilities in 31 states and concentrating resources in the West, the agency announced on Tuesday.
Trump plans to move Forest Service headquarters to Utah and shutter research sites Read More »
Walleyes entering Detroit River; turkeys strutting. Here’s a look at the Michigan fishing and hunting report on April 3, 2026.
Michigan’s statewide fishing and hunting report on April 3, 2026 Read More »
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The Pennsylvania Game Commission’s gigantic fiscal reserve was again a topic of conversation at a Senate Game and Fisheries Committee hearing March 17.
At the session held to hear the Game and Fish & Boat commissions’ annual reports, Sen. Greg Rothman, committee chairman, asked Game Commission Executive Director Steve Smith if he had plans to spend the money.
Pennsylvania Game Commission’s financial reserve is questioned by senator Read More »
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