Hunting
Need extreme taxidermy fix? Go visit Wisconsin’s John Balfanz
John Balfanz’s rural Prairie du Sac home in Wisconsin is filled from top to bottom with “entaxied” animal mounts. There are shoulder and euro mounts of white-tailed deer. There are turkey tailfeathers and beards. There
Calverton Pine Barrens State Forest is a Long Island hunting and recreational option
Long Island’s Calverton Pine Barrens State Forest is, at 191 acres, certainly not the biggest state-owned parcel in the state.
Deer hunters in New York’s Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge offered lead-free ammo rebates this fall
New York’s Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge is among 13 such areas where the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is extending the Voluntary Lead-Free Hunting Ammunition Incentive Program for the 2025-2026 deer hunting season.
Dan Ladd: Drought conditions take a toll across New York
Back in the spring, when rains were washing out fishing trips and turkey hunts, I mentioned in this space that I wasn’t too complacent in terms of potential future drought conditions.
The indicator at
New rules in effect for nonresidents using public lands in Oklahoma
New this year, nonresidents in Oklahoma accessing certain public hunting and fishing areas for any reason must check in and out of the area, and most nonresidents hunting game birds on a state wildlife management
Junior big game hunt runs Oct. 11-13 in New York; here’s what to know
Another youth big game hunting weekend is about to take place in New York, as Columbus Day weekend, Oct. 11-13, marks the annual hunt for junior hunters ages 12-15.
During what is labeled a
Wisconsin hunter’s first bear is huge 586-pounder that comes on final day of hunt
Wisconsin’s Teri Jo Fendler may not be a bear-hunting expert, but she’s well aware that the Burnett County black bear she shot Sept. 14 is a once-in-a-lifetime trophy.
Fendler made the four-hour trip from
A quick chat with outdoors journalist and conservation advocate Hal Herring
Award-winning outdoors scribe Hal Herring hails from Augusta, Mont., which allows him to use the tagline “Writing from the edge of the Bob Marshall Wilderness.” Originally from north Alabama, Herring also works in forestry, and
Youth hunt sets the deer stage for the Illinois season
Forty percent of the deer taken during the 2024 youth season in Illinois were adult females, indicating young hunters are slightly less likely than regular archery and firearms hunters to pass on a doe to
