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Family, friends, colleagues celebrate the life of Wisconsin conservationist George Meyer
In a room filled with grief, but also a sense of awe and deep appreciation, citizens gathered in Fort Atkinson last month for the celebration of life of a man whose name, for many, has

Are jake decoys all they’re cracked up to be? Let’s talk about it
Let’s talk about that full-strut jake decoy you lug around the turkey woods.
When it works… holy hannah the video footage you get of gobblers spoiling for a fight! They come in at a

Join a summer trap or skeet league to improve fall wingshooting
Thinking back to last hunting season, do the memories of birds missed number as many as the memories of birds bagged? If so, you’re not alone.
But do you wonder how to go about

Ryan Rothstein: The gamble that saved my 2026 turkey season
If there’s one thing I’ve learned in my turkey hunting career, it’s that you never know quite what you’re going to get. I’ve had years where turkey hunting seemed easy. This year was not one

New habitat, public lands available northwest of metro in Minnesota
It has become increasingly rare for conservation groups to acquire public land for outdoor recreational use as you get closer to the Twin Cities metropolitan area. But that’s precisely what happened recently in Wright County,

Tom Pink: Sharptail hunters, landowners are happy with Michigan’s Hunting Access Program
I moved to the Upper Peninsula from southeast Michigan more than 40 years ago with the idea of staying for just four years until I finished my bachelor’s degree. I grew up hunting and fishing

New York DEC commissioner discusses crossbows, future projects with outdoor writers group
The New York State Outdoor Writers Association recently held its annual conference in Greene and Columbia counties, where one of the highlights was a chance to sit down for a discussion with New York State

New York’s whitetail harvest up slightly in 2025-26
New York’s white-tailed deer harvest for the 2025-26 hunting seasons rose slightly from that of the season prior, and mostly on par with the five-year average. New York’s estimated total harvest of 227,032 was up

National Elk Refuge CWD discovery calls for talk of reducing nation’s largest herd
The discovery of chronic wasting disease on the National Elk Refuge in Wyoming adds urgency to a 2021 plan to reexamine the size of the 11,000-strong Jackson Elk Herd, the nation’s largest migratory herd.