Hunting
Four thoughts on spring habitat work to benefit fish and wildlife
Ernest Hemingway wrote that when spring arrives, the only problem is “where to be happiest.” It’s a time of rebirth, a time of hope and, for wildlife, a season when tender green buds and shoots
11-year old takes massive buck during Minnesota’s youth season
Walking out to a deer stand on his family’s acreage in Polk County, Teagan Lee and his mother, Sarah, of Trail, Minn., spooked several deer before they sat down and waited for a buck to
New York DEC’s waterfowl webinar features good and bad news
It was a little bit of good news, bad news type of scenario as the New York Department of Environmental Conservation hosted a virtual meeting on Sept. 29 to update the public on what’s happening
Revisiting a century of South Dakota pheasant hunting
South Dakota’s first pheasant-hunting season opened Oct. 30, 1919, with about 1,000 hunters harvesting about 200 birds in Spink County in one day.
Now, fast-forward to 2024, when 1.4 million birds were harvested by
Youth hunters kick things off as hunting, trapping seasons highlight fall’s progression in New York
Hunters across New York continue to have a multitude of opportunities for both big and small game, and as October morphs into November that will only accelerate. Trapping seasons, too, are just getting under way
New York’s statewide fishing and hunting report on Oct. 23, 2025
Transition time for hunters and anglers. Here’s a look at the New York fishing and hunting report on Oct. 23, 2025.
Trappers are still needed in Pennsylvania and beyond
I don’t know about your portion of the state but where I live in the south-central region of Pennsylvania it is not uncommon to see a half dozen or more freshly killed furbearers on the
Target staging areas in late October for better bowhunting; here’s what they look like
There were fresh deer droppings and tracks all over a corner of the beanfield that had just been combined during the previous week.
The problem? The corner was 15 yards from a well-traveled road
270 Winchester cartridge – a century of success
O’Connor once wrote about a hunt he shared with another outdoor writer, who did not feel the 270 was a capable elk cartridge. That is until Jack dropped a bull elk that was more than
