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Steve Weisman: Getting you ready for what should (hopefully) be a better ice-fishing season than last year in Iowa
While late fall fishing and various hunting seasons are taking place across the country, there’s something else taking place. Yes, plans for ice fishing have been going on at ice fishing manufacturers and retail outlets

What hunters need to know heading into Iowa’s gun deer seasons
For an expected 100,000-plus deer hunters, the long wait is almost over, Iowa’s gun deer seasons are right around the corner.
But before heading to the timber, it’s important that hunters go through their

Holiday buyer’s guide: Here’s what outdoor enthusiasts want under the tree this year
Let’s face it. Does anyone need another lure, gadget, or gizmo for the outdoors? Well, maybe not, but we all want another lure, gadget, or gizmo that helps us in our outdoor lifestyle.
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Tom Venesky: Where’s the whitetail rut in Pennsylvania?
Beyond the decreasing length of daylight hours, I don’t believe there are many other factors that significantly influence when rut activity takes place.
But this year seems to be a little different. Several trips

Mild weather greets New York’s Southern Zone opening day deer hunters
The opening weekend of New York’s Southern Zone rifle season was a comfortable one for hunters in the southern tier, with daytime temperatures both Saturday and Sunday hovering in the 50s, and even approaching 60

17,000 invasive axis deer were killed on Maui this year, but they just keep coming
About 50 axis deer crowded around the fence line separating Maui Nui Botanical Gardens and Keopuolani Regional Park, startling the gardens staff on a recent Thursday afternoon.
The threat posed by the invasive deer

Iowa’s busiest deer seasons are almost here
Iowa’s most popular deer hunting seasons are just around the corner, when roughly 100,000 hunters take to the timber for the long-awaited gun seasons.
Iowa’s first gun season is Dec. 7-11. Second gun season

Mike Raykovicz: In New York’s Southern Zone, consider taking a doe this year
According to information provided by the New York Department of Environmental Conservation, last year hunters in New York harvested 209,781 deer. It was estimated that 112,224 antlered bucks, and 97,557 antlerless deer were taken and

Outdoor Insights: Minnesotans overwhelmingly stand up for the outdoors again
Last week, I spoke with Paul Austin, executive director of Conservation Minnesota. He shared a couple of points that illustrate just how thoroughly Minnesotans supported the out-of-doors via the Nov. 5 amendment to re-dedicate lottery