Hunting
Commentary: Make sure your outdoors ‘last call’ doesn’t come with regrets
The outdoors – Mother Nature – offers each of us intriguing experiences away from large social crowds of humans. Our learning experiences and personal privacies will never be matched. The feel of a hard-fighting fish.
New report shows CWD spikes again in Illinois
Deer hunters in Illinois expecting a new high mark for confirmed CWD cases got what they expected from the DNR’s 2024-25 Surveillance and Management Report.
The report, released Aug. 22 and based on findings
Wisconsin Mixed Bag: Sandhill State Wildlife Area taking trapping applications through Sept. 15
The DNR is accepting applications for a special trapping season within the Sandhill State Wildlife Area designed to help the DNR achieve its furbearer management goals on the 9,150-acre property. The deadline to apply for
Wisconsin DNR can begin drafting ‘housekeeping’ regulations for wildlife and fish rule changes
The Wisconsin Natural Resources Board (NRB) approved two scope statements involving future wildlife rules and one statement for fisheries rules that now allow the Department of Natural Resources to begin drafting minor “housekeeping” regulations.
Remade Klum Lake should be on Iowa birders, duck hunters radar this fall
Ringed by trees and away from the busy roads in eastern Louisa County, Iowa’s Klum Lake has undergone a significant makeover over the past decade or so.
The 250-acre natural floodplain lake – historically
New York’s hunting seasons ready to begin for big and small game
Sept. 1 marks the start of the sporting license year in New York, at least for hunters and trappers. That date also kicks off an early Canada goose season across much of the state that
An end-of-summer checklist to complete before bowhunting season
As summer winds down, hunters are shifting gears in preparation for chasing whitetails this fall. Bows are being dusted off, landowners are being visited, and glassing velvet bucks is in full swing.
However, while
Dove details to get you ready for the Minnesota season
Travel far enough south and you’ll enter a world where the dove opener is dang near a regional holiday. Over fields of millet, sorghum, and a host of other dove-friendly plantings, folks will line up
Steve Piatt: Great adventures elicit great emotion
It has happened before, and I’m sure it will again. I don’t know exactly when, but I have a few ideas.
I’m going to cry. I won’t collapse into a blubbering mess, but certainly
