Hunting
Taking kids turkey hunting can be a blast, but there’s ways to do it right
It wasn’t long ago when the best way to introduce youngsters to hunting youngsters to hunting involved a .22 rifle and some squirrels. Or maybe a single-shot shotgun and some cottontails. Today, most kids get
Reader Stories: Being able to start a fire critical if you get lost
Years ago, I had a book of outdoor stories by Ted Trueblood. He wrote for various outdoor magazines. In that book were two stories that stuck with me: The first: “How Not to Get Lost.”
Youth turkey hunters break Illinois harvest record
Tilly Jack Cuzzort harvested her first turkey – it most certainly will be the first of many for the 7-year-old Springfield girl.
And that’s exactly what DNR and the state’s hunting community are hoping
More than $15,000 in fines levied on two Mississippi men in Ohio deer poaching case
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife announced on Friday that two Mississippi men pleaded guilty to multiple wildlife violations after poaching white-tailed deer in southeast Ohio. The men were ordered to
Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson offers wolf delisting bill
The battle to permanently delist the gray wolf in the lower 48 states continues at the federal level now that U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) joined two other senators last week to offer their version
Wolf delisting bill moves onto House of Representatives floor
Federal wolf delisting took one small step closer to becoming reality as members of the House Committee on Natural Resources passed the Pet and Livestock Protection Act, H.R. 845, out of committee by vote of
Passion for hunting and fishing still burns bright for Wisconsin’s Marie Skic at 97
In the year Marathon County’s Marie Skic was born, the world was a very different place. Charles Lindbergh was flying across the Atlantic for the first time, penicillin had just been invented, and a film
Notes off a soiled cuff: Fishing license fees in Pennsylvania, and thoughts on ‘Baby’ the pet deer
Looks like the price of fishing licenses won’t increase next year. During his presentation of the Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission’s annual report to the Senate Game and Fisheries Committee, Tim Schaeffer, executive director, said
Lesson No. 1 in turkey hunting? Gobblers seldom cooperate
How many times have you been face-to-face with unpredictable gobblers during their spring mating activities? We know they can be wary and habitat astute. But, they can also become very unpredictable when mating overrides their
