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Wisconsin Mixed Bag: Deer season framework, spring hearing results on tap for NRB June 26 in Green Bay
Wake boats, the 2024 deer season framework, and results of DNR and Conservation Congress spring hearing advisory question voting are just three topics Natural Resources Board (NRB) will field when it meets in-person at 8:30

Loggers weigh in on northern Wisconsin deer herd past and present
They say if you want to know where the deer are, ask a logger. After all, the men and women who cut and haul timber for a living are in the woods every day of

50,000 turkeys shot during Wisconsin’s spring season for first time since 2009
Wisconsin’s turkey hunters broke the 50,000 harvest mark for the first time in 15 years when the spring season ended May 28 with a registered kill of 50,435 jakes and gobblers.
By most accounts,

Summer scouting: Start laying the foundation for your best deer season ever
Archery season may be weeks away, but Minnesota expert Bob Borowiak is already gearing up to do some of the most important scouting he’ll do all season.
While most successful deer hunters recognize the

Simple and spunky, fishing for summer bluegills never gets old
As summer approaches, I am taken back to my time as a youth, and to my son’s time when he was a kid to the simpler times of fishing. These types of outings are still

Delaware River’s Pocono section great for bass in Pennsylvania
Just the day before I had picked up a flint arrowhead as I walked the edge of a cornfield along the Delaware River in the rain.
This day I latched onto an 18-inch smallmouth

Mixed news for duck production outlook in the Dakotas
Wetland conditions across large portions of the Prairie Pothole Region in North Dakota and South Dakota are vastly improved since the end of winter, thanks to weeks of steady precipitation going back to early April.<br

New York’s waterfowl seasons announced as vet, youth hunts continue
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, in collaboration with the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, has set migratory game bird hunting seasons for the 2024-25 hunting season. These include seasons for ducks,

Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula is an untapped gem for smallmouth
Copper mining in Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula ended decades ago but one hidden gem remains: a nearly untapped bronzeback (aka smallmouth) bass fishery that rivals the best the state has to offer.
The Keweenaw area