Hunting
Process your own venison and reap the rewards
The 8-point buck – a handsome specimen of a white-tailed deer – tapped out about 50 yards to my front in a cut alfalfa field.
With about 15 minutes of shooting time left on
Commentary: Report shows scavenging swine could spread CWD
Feral hogs – anywhere, anytime – are bad news. They destroy crops, prey on fawns, destroy nests, and in their spare time, spread a variety of diseases, including African swine fever and pseudorabies.
Feral
More than 1,500 pelts changed hands at Ohio fur auction
As Ohio State Trappers Association (OSTA) fur auction coordinator Shawn Bentley drove though the heavy snowfall in Butler County, he wondered if he should have canceled the first sale of the season in the name
Minnesota Mixed Bag: St. Cloud Sportsmen’s Show set for Feb. 7-9
The 37th annual St. Cloud Sportsmen’s Show runs Feb. 7-9 at the St. Cloud River’s Edge Convention Center. This is central Minnesota’s biggest sport show, featuring boats, camping gear, RVs, hunting and fishing equipment, travel
In Minnesota, ‘community science’ has big impact on conservation efforts
Here’s a resolution for 2025: more community science. All in favor, raise your hand … or wing, or fin, or whatever.
In case readers are not aware, community science (alternately, “citizen science”) happens when
Results are in from Ohio’s 2023 deer hunter, landowner survey: ‘We need to do something’
Every three to five years the Ohio DNR Division of Wildlife sends out a survey to Ohio’s hunters and farmers to ask their opinion on deer population size.
Information from that survey gives Mike
How do Canada geese respond to hunting pressure? They didn’t flee far in Pennsylvania study
Geese appear to understand when and where hunting takes place but are willing to risk the danger to stay close to resources and their primary habitats, according to a new study led by researchers at
Bob Gwizdz: Making sense of the unwritten rules in hunting and fishing
Hunting and fishing are a lot like baseball in some ways. There are rules and there are unwritten rules. Like you always take a 3-0 pitch. There’s no penalty for swinging at a 3-0 pitch
A quick chat with Clay Newcomb — avid outdoorsman and storyteller
Clay Newcomb, 44, is host of the Bear Grease podcast, which is part of the MeatEater Podcast Network. He has worked for MeatEater since October 2021.
Newcomb grew up in the Ouachita Mountains of
