Jeff Pritzl, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) deer ecologist, gave a thumbnail nine-day gun deer season report to the December meeting of the Natural Resources Board (NRB), saying the preliminary 2025 harvest numbers are
Bobcats, because of their shy, reclusive behavior, cause many people to think they’re a rare wildlife species, although when wildlife agencies throughout the northern tier of states evaluate their status, they’re finding bobcats are thriving.<br
On December 11, President Donald Trump signed a series of Congressional resolutions into law that rolled back Resource Management Plans (RMPs) and RMP amendments for millions of acres of Bureau of Land Management lands in
Fifteen minutes after squeezing the trigger, I was dumbfounded. The shot at the buck was only a little more than 50 yards and my crosshairs had been squarely on its shoulder.
As it ran
This has not been a normal fall at the little cabin. Our Airedale, Major, has had another round of significant health issues.
At 10-1⁄2 years of age, anything can happen, as dog people know.
Former DNR secretary and Wisconsin Wildlife Federation executive director George Meyer, 78, passed away Wednesday, Dec. 10, in Madison.
Meyer had been a Wisconsin conservation leader for more than 50 years. He worked as
So, if you’ve been following along in this space for a few years, you likely know that when it comes to deer hunting, my friends and hunting party members have been struggling to see and
Wisconsin long considered its nine-day gun-deer season “the hammer” for managing whitetails, accounting for more than 90% of the annual deer kill during the early 1970s, and routinely 85% of it through 1995.
But
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.<br
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