Hunting
Wisconsin Wardens at Work: ‘Admin’ wardens go afield for deer season
DNR game wardens may have dreamed of becoming a field warden because they love being out in Wisconsin’s natural resources. They know protecting those resources comes before personal recreation, and that means working the nine-day
Patrick Durkin: CWD, sick deer, bones all common in SW Wisconsin
Mike Purnell and his brother Lloyd concede they can’t find every carcass, skeleton or bone after deer die of chronic wasting disease on the family’s 700 acres of farmlands in southwestern Wisconsin.
But heading
Wisconsin forester spearheads movement to stop landowners from using high fences, creating “gray area” game farms
Poet Robert Frost famously wrote that good fences make good neighbors. When it comes to hunting, not everyone shares Frost’s sentiment.
A forester and former Jackson County Conservation Congress delegate in Wisconsin alleges
These mini tools will have your mini food plots pulling in deer
Tom Hart, a good buddy, former cop, and current Outdoor News advertising salesman has harvested a lot of big bucks from small urban spots to larger out-of-state leases. The thing is, he doesn’t claim to
Wisconsin DNR confirms CWD in wild deer for the first time in Menominee County
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) confirmed the first positive test result for chronic wasting disease (CWD) in a wild deer in Menominee County.
The deer was a hunter-harvested 2-year-old buck and is
Deer Management Assistance Program 2.0 offers new benefits — plus fees — for Wisconsin landowners
More landowners interested in managing their land for wildlife will be able to receive extra help from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR), but in exchange for new fees and new reporting requirements.
Christine Thomas: A 2024 Wisconsin deer season report from the little cabin
“If either of them comes down to the south end of the field, he is chili,” I texted to Dave Clausen and Duke Welter, friends with whom I served on the Wisconsin Natural Resources Board
Dean Bortz: Let’s move Thanksgiving out of Wisconsin’s deer season
This is a purely personal and selfish suggestion and one I’m making only because I think I’m growing cynical, ornery, and old – the old part maybe having something to do with the first two
Wisconsin 10-pointer is an antlered doe… or is it?
Lancaster high schooler Georgia Vesperman and her dad, Jerry, were surprised when they rolled over the Wisconsin 10-pointer she had dropped at 260 yards during the 2023 gun season. It had no visible male genitalia.
