Hunting
Joe Stangel takes reins of management for Minnesota’s southern region wildlife
No one had to give Joe Stangel a tour of the office when his new gig as the Minnesota DNR’s southern region wildlife manager position was made official in September.
For the year prior,
Rifle-barreled shotguns still a good choice for deer hunters; here are some great options
For more than four decades I carried a slug-loaded shotgun in the woods during Wisconsin’s gun deer season.
From Alaska to Africa: Bucket list hunting adventures to target for 2026 and beyond
Too many adventures and too little time.
That (plus too little money, perhaps?) is the outdoorsman’s challenge. But there are ways for you to fill your wish list bucket. Let’s cover them plus some
Notes off a soiled cuff: Send your old hunting, fishing photos to Pennsylvania Outdoor News
Over more than two decades editing this publication, I have watched how reader submissions fluctuate with hunting and fishing seasons, sportsmen’s issues du jour, time of year, and severe weather – and I try not
Bob Gwizdz: Working the late shift stocking Michigan game areas with roosters
It’s 10:30 on Friday night as Joe Bosch pulls his F-250 up to the gate at the Michigan state game area. He unlocks the gate, moves his truck forward a dozen yards or so, drops
Minnesota’s ‘CWD hunt’ harvest tops last year’s
As the 2025 archery deer season neared its Dec. 31 end, Minnesota almost had its final tally on chronic wasting disease from the hunting season.
During the late-CWD hunt from Friday, Dec. 19, to
How did inclusion of crossbows impact New York’s deer kill? DEC releases preliminary harvest percentages
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation on Dec. 30 shared preliminary data on New York’s white-tailed deer harvest, at least as of Dec. 14.
In its weekly Hunting and Trapping Newsletter the
Sunset date removed from Michigan’s pheasant stocking program
The Michigan Senate gave southern state bird hunters a holiday gift a week before Christmas by passing a House bill that removed the sunset provision on the pheasant release program on state game areas. The
Where things stand with the corner-crossing issue for hunters, anglers
If you laid a checkerboard grid over aerial photos of any county in the rural Upper Midwest, and declared each red square 640 acres of public land, you’d likely assume it’s OK to step from
