Hunting
Wisconsin’s statewide fishing and hunting report on Sept. 12, 2025
Fishermen battle high winds, cool temperatures. A look at the Wisconsin fishing and hunting report on Sept. 12, 2025.
PFAS-related consumption advisories issued for ducks, deer and fish in parts of Wisconsin
The alphabet soup of chemical pollutants (DDT, CWD, VHS, HPA, PFAS) just expanded with the release of a consumption advisory for mallards and wood ducks harvested from Green Bay due to the contamination of per-
Why is meat from some feral hogs tainted blue?
I used to take my two sons to southern Texas during spring break to bowhunt hogs at a high-fence ranch. (I’m not a beach guy; I’d rather hunt.) In three days of hunting, we’d average
Michigan’s Dathon Skelton: A decoy carver extraordinaire
Dathon Skelton says working gunning decoys tend to have simpler paint schemes and less detail. He has branched out from carving duck decoys to carving more songbirds. Regardless, he says carving is essential, but painting
Outdoor Insights: Time to organize a Duck Summit in Minnesota to address dwindling populations
Count Outdoor News among those endorsing Dennis Anderson’s suggestion that the Minnesota DNR should coordinate and host a Duck Summit. Gov. Mark Dayton pitched a Pheasant Summit in 2014, and hunters may actually be enjoying
Early deer season is often all about acorns, but you have to figure out how to hunt the favored forage
Opening-week strategies for bowhunting deer hunters often center on ag fields and food plots. Whether that’s posting up over a sea of soybeans or on half an acre of clover planted just for the deer,
Sportsman profile: Mark Nale, a writer, photographer and activist, living large in Pennsylvania’s Centre Co.
At 74, sportsman Mark Nale, of Port Matilda, Centre County, Pa, is proof that age is much more than a number.
If Nale isn’t targeting wild trout on a central Pennsylvania stream or
Minnesota’s Zone 31 produces 560-pound bear as state hunters find average success early
While spending Minnesota’s Sept. 1 bear-hunt opener watching a bait in Bear Permit Area 31, it was unusually quiet as Laura Gaulke, of Cloquet, said she’d seen only a squirrel and a grouse. So when
Liberal duck seasons expected again in 2026 after results of 2025 federal survey
When the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service released its 2025 Waterfowl Breeding Population and Habitat Survey Field Reports on July 3 – the precursor to the annual Waterfowl Population Status Report – you could almost
