Hunting
Michigan hunters will have the option of using e-tags in 2026
In an increasingly digital world – one of email, evites, and ecommerce – the Michigan Department of Natural Resources is planning to allow hunters to tag their deer with e-kill tags beginning in 2026.
Minnesota DNR gets serious with its statewide WMA planning, target completion date now set
While updated plans have been completed for some of Minnesota’s “big” wildlife management areas during the past two years (Mille Lacs, Whitewater, Carlos Avery, for example), a DNR effort to establish a statewide “system” plan
Outdoor Observations: Didn’t fill your tag? Many opportunities still exist this season for Michigan deer hunters
For many Michigan deer hunters, the season pretty much ends one-half hour after sunset on Nov. 30 when the regular firearms season draws to a close.
Ah, but not so fast. There’s always the
Ohio Mixed Bag: ODNR’s Natalie Foos earns award from Water Management Association
The Ohio DNR (ODNR) reports that Natalie Foos, Land and Water Resources Manager for the Division of Parks and Watercraft, has been honored with the Wayne S. Nichols Award from the Water Management Association of
Treestand falls still the biggest threat to hunters
A hunter who fell from a treestand in Pennsylvania’s Armstrong County as firearms deer season dawned was recovering from traumatic injuries in early December.
The victim tumbled from his ladder stand in a wooded
The 2025 Ohio Outdoor News year in review
The year of 2025 in the pages of Ohio Outdoor News began and ended with state records in the fishing category.
In between were a lot more stories that made the cut for this
Ohio’s young deer hunters experience good hunt during 2025 youth season
Nearly 10,000 Ohio deer hunters age 17 and under helped fill their family freezers with venison in late November.
During the Nov. 22 and Nov. 23, Ohio youth-only deer firearms hunting season, the state’s
Ohio Insider: A history lesson on the state’s gun deer season
I’m writing this column amidst the traditional gun week for deer in Ohio.
If you will allow, I thought it would be fun to look back on the origins of the Buckeye State’s gun
First-ever Congressional rollbacks of public land use now law
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
