Hunting
Attorney sticks to his waterfowl hunting roots amid Chicago’s bright lights
I grew up on the prairies of Nebraska but moved to the Windy City shortly after college to study law at the University of Illinois Chicago. While my original intention was to become a big-city
Wisconsin budget carries license fee hikes for nonresidents
Nonresidents will pay more for hunting and fishing licenses now that Wisconsin’s new 2023-25 state budget is in effect.
Residents will see no increase in license costs, but hunters, trappers, and anglers also will see
Iowa’s public lands: A limited but appreciated resource for outdoor users
The state of Iowa has nearly 36 million acres of land, but only approximately 1% (owned by the State of Iowa and under Iowa Department of Natural Resources jurisdiction) is public land that Iowans and
Deer not only culprits raiding farmers’ crops
During three months last summer and early fall, I had placed a trail camera along the edge of a corn field at one of my hunting spots. The camera was fastened to a mid-sized beech
Stories from Ron Leys, longtime outdoor editor, teach lifelong lessons
Ron Leys retired over three decades ago as the Milwaukee Journal’s outdoors editor, roughly four years before Wisconsin’s largest newspaper merged with the company’s morning paper in 1995 to become the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.
Leys,
Spring counts for pheasants, waterfowl out of North Dakota show growing pheasant numbers
The North Dakota Game and Fish Department uses indexes to frame population estimates for waterfowl and upland game. While a census is an exact count, the resources needed for an exact population count aren’t a
Sportsmen just want to be left alone, but that’s not how this works
Those of us who hunt, fish and trap, by nature, are a passive bunch. We just want to go sit in a treestand, hit our favorite trout stream or bass pond, and be left alone
Commentary: New rules to take effect for game birds harvested in Canada
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has issued its 2023 rule regarding the import of game birds from Canada.
Could antler point restrictions be the answer for a more balanced deer herd in parts of Minnesota?
For decades, Minnesota DNR surveys have shown that many hunters want change, but there’s little agreement on regulations to increase the number of older bucks. The result continues to be a deer population that lacks
