Hunting
Patrick Durkin: Wisconsin Natural Resources Board should worry more about helping deer than hurting CDAC members’ feelings
When the Natural Resources Board (NRB) tried mopping up Wisconsin’s 2026 deer management plans during its June meeting, members merely rearranged the dust and debris while wishing for better things next year.
Such futility
Ron Schara: Want pheasants? It’s always been a simple formula
Looking back, Minnesota pheasant hunters have gotten smarter and pheasant numbers have increased, too. It’s no coincidence. But it hasn’t happened overnight.
For example: Almost unheard of these days are pheasant hunters complaining about
Keith Tidball passes torch as New York State Conservation Council president
When Keith Tidball took over as president of the New York State Conservation Council two years ago, he knew he had a lot of work to do to get the organization back in shape.
Commentary: History of sportsmen’s licenses… from excluding outsiders to funding conservation
Today, buying a hunting or fishing license is such a routine part of being a sportsman that it is easy to forget how – and why – the system began. Licensing was not originally created
Indiana hunter scores 614-pound bear in Wisconsin
Opening day of bear season is a busy time at Whiskey Ridge Sport Shop on Hwy. 70 in this normally sleepy Northwoods Wisconsin crossroads community.
Owner Mark Heath sells sporting goods, but he also
Blazing trails through an aspen rebirth
According to family lore, when a tornado ripped through his land in June, 1973, my grandfather was so depressed that he considered selling the 162 acres in Minnesota’s Crow Wing County that he had purchased
Wisconsin DNR reviews CWD, EHD situations as fall hunting seasons get going
The Wisconsin Natural Resources Board (NRB) received updates on the two biggest white-tailed deer health concerns – chronic wasting disease (CWD) and epizootic hemorrhagic disease (EHD) – during a Sept. 22 briefing from the Department
Minnesota artist Bob Hautman wins federal duck stamp contest for fourth time
Minnesota’s own Bob Hautman, from Delano, won the 2026 Federal Duck Stamp Art Contest today with his acrylic painting of a pair of long-tailed ducks. After two days of judging, the announcement happened at an
Illinois bow season opens Oct. 1 with few changes
The DNR has floated the idea of establishing additional Restricted Archery Zones in other parts of the state, but this year’s bow season opened Oct. 1 with only the original zone: the same cluster of
