Opinions
Dan Ladd: Might there be a normal ice fishing season in New York?
I used to really be into winter. In fact, as soon as deer season was over, I would be breaking out the ice fishing gear, tuning up the cross-country skis and watching the weather forecast
Wisconsin Letters to the Editor: Spomer is right, dry firing pays off but protect the firing pin
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Jan. 24, 2025, edition of Wisconsin Outdoor News.
Wisconsin State Roundup: Numbers from fall turkey, holiday deer hunt are in
It looks like fall Wisconsin turkey hunters registered a preliminary number of 4,482 turkeys as of Jan. 2, according to the DNR’s web site.
That number might increase ever so slightly since the season
Steve Pollick: Big band of pronghorns are a rare treat on a recent road trip out West
“Whoa!” I shouted to my spouse as we tooled along U.S. 6 about 50 miles east of Denver on a recent road trip. “Those are pronghorns!”
Old hunters always are excited to see game
Commentary: USFWS denies Sportsmen’s Alliance petitions on wolves
On Jan. 7, the Sportsmen’s Alliance Foundation received “not-warranted” findings as a politically-motivated farewell folly from the Biden administration on two Endangered Species Act petitions requesting the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service delist gray wolves
Mike Schoonveld: Sea lamprey in the Great Lakes benefited from COVID shut down
Much of the world changed thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic.
We are still living in its aftermath and will be for the foreseeable future. Decades ago, much of the Great Lakes fish populations changed
Tom Venesky: Pennsylvania Game Commission committee a good idea, but timing is off
The recently formed Pennsylvania Board of Game Commissioners’ Wildlife Management Committee makes sense, but the timing could be better.
As for the committee itself, it consists of five commissioners who discuss various proposals and
Outdoor Insights: Important notes from Minnesota’s 2025 DNR Roundtable
The Minnesota DNR held its annual roundtable meetings event last Friday, Jan. 10, in Bloomington. It saw 400-plus attendees, and the agenda improved from recent years, although I would’ve liked to have seen one of
Jeff Frischkorn: More study needed on straight-walled cartridges’ impact on deer harvest in Ohio
There’s an adage in outdoor journalism that says never to argue with a biologist – even when you are correct.
I reminded myself of this axiom since the figures arrived for Ohio’s general firearms
