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Dean Bortz: What can go wrong shall go wrong in the turkey woods
If you’ve already read this story from Outdoor News, then you know that the 2025 turkey season is off to a roaring start in Wisconsin. There’s no way of knowing how things will play out
Artists, fish-lure makers give floating trash a new life
A social-media friend recently sent me a link to YouTube videos about using “feminine napkins” as bait for catching bass, catfish, lake trout, and rainbow trout.
He considered the videos “LOL,” and said the
Bob Gwizdz: Examining the benefits of spring burns for native grasses
If you drive the backroads of southern Michigan, you likely notice some grass fires or the charred results of recent prescribed burns in uninhabited swatches across the landscape. And though it’s wildfire season, it’s a
Avian influenza naturally occurs in certain wildlife
Wisconsin is seeing a wide variety of mortality of wildlife species due to the H5N1 Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI), but the risk of the virus to the general public is relatively low.
Jasmine
Here’s how to stalk the aggressive spring pickerel in Pennsylvania
The stalks rising from the lake’s silted bottom were thick, heavy and straight, like a wooden fence row.
Everything seemed calm until I saw a flash of green poke through the slats. Then the
Clues suggest ‘Prince’ was a hunter who enjoyed seafood
As a Minnesotan, the name “Prince” immediately reminds me of a musical performer. However, this is not about that Prince but rather a young man named Prince who died 24,000 years ago after what was
CWD cases escaping the disease’s ‘hot zone’ in Illinois
A deer taken this past season by a hunter in Adams County that later tested positive for CWD has greatly loosened what had been a tightly contained disease “hot zone” in northern Illinois.
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State roundup: Wisconsin turkey hunters off to a fast start, and a frustrating litter find
It looks like turkey hunters are off to a good start on the 2025 spring season, judging by early harvest numbers for the first season.
According to Taylor Finger, the DNR’s turkey and waterfowl
Kroening pleads guilty to two counts in southeast Wis. deer poaching case
Jessica Jill Kroening, 37, of West Bend (formerly of Brownsville), the adult female suspect in a southeast Wisconsin three-county poaching case that involved more than 100 dead deer, pleaded guilty to two counts and had
