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Thursday, May 7th, 2026

Breaking News for

Sportsmen Since 1968

Brian Peterson

A quick chat with Dr. Brooke Bateman on leading the iconic Christmas Bird Count

The sights and sounds of her childhood still resonate with Dr. Brooke Bateman.
Birds can do that.
“When I visited my Nana (grandmother) in northern Wisconsin, she always took the time to point out all the birds and help me identify them. I recall spending entire days sitting next to her in her older years, watching birds with her at her feeder in Wisconsin.”

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A quick chat with wildgame chef Andrew Zimmern

Andrew Zimmern has been preparing and cooking outdoors fare for about as long as he can remember – so just about as long as he’s been an outdoorsman.
Yes, for Zimmern, the two have always been intertwined.
“Since I was a little kid, I was very active doing outdoor stuff,” said Zimmern, 63, a four-time James Beard Award-winning chef and television personality. “I think about the outdoors when I’m cooking and, obviously, when I’m in the outdoors, it’s to bring things into my kitchen.”

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A quick chat with Christine Thomas, a conservationist, leader in helping get more women outdoors

Becoming an outdoors woman was an easy thing for Christine Thomas, a lifelong outdoors enthusiast.
The Becoming an Outdoors Woman program? Well, there was a bit more to that.
“In 1990, I was asked to help organize a conference on women hunters,” Thomas said of the formation of Becoming an Outdoors Woman, a program designed to give women introductory experiences and instruction in various outdoors activities, such as hunting and fishing.

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