Hunting
New York Mixed Bag: DEC completes annual whitefish egg collection from Cascade Lakes
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s Region 5 Fisheries staff last month completed their annual round whitefish egg take at beautiful Cascade Lakes.
New York’s winter sport show season about to begin
The 2025 sports show season is poised to begin soon, with shows getting under way in January and continuing throughout the year. The winter and early spring periods, however, remain the busiest with many large
Dean Bortz: 2,347 miles, a blown tire, and one white-tailed buck
Just about every fall since probably 2010 or 2011 I’ve been able to hunt deer, elk, or pronghorn in South Dakota (deer and pronghorn), Wyoming (deer), and Montana (deer and elk). I did hunt the
Dan Ladd: New York legislature should move on crossbows in 2025
The 2025 legislative session is coming and after years of discussion, New York lawmakers should consider the hunting community, the Department of Environmental Conservation and even the white-tailed deer herd this year and pass crossbow
Wisconsin’s sport show season kicks off in January
Outdoors lovers – whether walking the aisles at sport shows for decades or are considering checking one out for the first time – can chase their passions indoors during the coming weeks.
A sure-cure
Wisconsin Reader Stories: A heart scare is the wrong kind of excitement in the deer woods
Sometimes men are foolish. In November I was one of those foolish men. This isn’t your typical deer hunting story. There’s no big buck or hardly any deer involved. But it is a story of
Make time to get youth into the outdoors this year
Fish, fish, fish.
For several summers, that’s about all my son and I did.
Mornings and evenings and weekends, we’d be on the water, chasing bass. He’d ask to go walleye fishing. I’d
Wisconsin Natural Resources Board reviews possible fish, wildlife rule changes
The Wisconsin Natural Resources Board (NRB) approved statements of scope to start the process of drafting new hunting and fishing regulation questions to be presented at the 2025 spring hearings in April.
At the
Here’s how to keep your hunting dog’s paws in top shape during off-season exercise
Unless you’re game to head out of state, most of the bird-hunting opportunities in Minnesota have come to a close. Adventurous souls with the time and money could head off to Nebraska or maybe Arizona
