Hunting
Tales of when predators attack…turkey decoys
Nature’s surprises often turn routine hunts into lifetime memories.
Sometimes you smile, wondering why a mallard hen would expose her waddling brood to avian and terrestrial predators by marching them across a bare 300-yard
State Roundup: Start with Iron County when looking deep into issues with Northern Wisconsin’s deer herd
Steve Heiting’s deer series continues with a look at Iron and Ashland counties, along with an accompanying article on the front page of our June 14 print edition of Wisconsin Outdoor News.
I grew
Illinois gobbler ranked 7th heaviest in state history, top tom taken by female hunter
As she did with the first five turkeys she shot in her hunting career, Jennifer Cheely grabbed the freshly-harvested Edgar County tom and threw it over her shoulder.
That’s what first made her go
Pennsylvania Reader Stories: Some poach gobblers during the Sabbath day
The so-called “Sunday hunting ban” has never stopped Norm Green, of Northeast Pa., or me, during spring gobbler season.
We have always utilized Sundays as scouting days during gobbler season. We’ve often located active
Bob Zink: Post-party illnesses a reminder of how to cook bear meat
I have friends who have varying degrees of meat aversion. One will eat fish, but no other meat. One has a pet pig and will eat nothing with pork in it. Another is a “locavore.”
Wisconsin Mixed Bag: Northwest Whitetails Unlimited chapter donates to Spooner, Shell Lake youth trap teams
Northwest Wisconsin Chapter of Whitetails Unlimited donated $2,000 each to Spooner’s Northland Trap Team and the Shell Lake FFA trap shooting team.
Spooner’s team is made up of 12 members and coached by Darby
Group-hunting with bows denied by Wisconsin’s Conservation Congress
Group-hunting has been legal during Wisconsin’s gun deer seasons since the mid-1980s, but four decades later it remains a bridge too far for bowhunters.
Group-hunting – also known as party-hunting or group-bagging – allows
Notes off a soiled cuff: Politics now everywhere, including in fish and wildlife management
For a long time many of us thought – naively I suspect – that public policy making for hunting, fishing and wild resource management was nonpartisan. But everything is political, now.
As evidence, the
Northern Wisconsin’s deer herd: Deer in Iron, Ashland counties living on the edge
Ashland and Iron counties in extreme northern Wisconsin have historically had some of the lowest deer populations in the entire state. Both counties feature lots of big timber, and heavy snow in what is known
