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Dean Bortz: A tribute to friend Tom Coulthurst and our many adventures
I met Tom Coulthurst not long after moving to Wisconsin’s Minocqua/Woodruff area in June 1986 to work as a reporter at The Lakeland Times. It was summer. Probably 1986 or 1987.
I went to

Russ Mason: Would a simpler licensing structure benefit Michigan hunters?
In 1934, the Michigan hunting regulations pamphlet was a single piece of paper folded in half, creating a front, back, and two inside pages.
Today, the document has expanded to 80 pages, and also

State Roundup: Wisconsin bear hunters off to a great start
As of Sept. 20, Wisconsin’s black bear harvest totals stood at 91% of this year’s harvest goal with 3,527 animals registered across the six bear zones. The 2024 harvest goal was set at 3,850 bears.

Ben Moyer: Hunting’s approval runs broad and deep in Pennsylvania
You can feel tension these days. It portends the political climax we’ll reach in a few weeks. It would all be more constructive if the intense rhetoric could be tamped down to rational discourse. Everyone

Streams of Thought: Vacancies continue to hinder Minnesota DNR’s fisheries field offices
There’s really not down time, so to speak, when it comes to the operations at Minnesota’s 29 area fisheries offices. That said, things get pretty serious about this time of year, when the task of

Tom Venesky: Oral rabies vaccine appears to work; could method one day be a blueprint for stemming CWD?
Throughout the summer, government officials were busy tossing thousands of oral rabies vaccine packets across western Pennsylvania and several other states in the East.
The packets were dropped from airplanes and helicopters, along with

Minnesota Letters to the Editor: There’s no need to shoot hen mallards
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Sept. 27, 2024, edition of Minnesota Outdoor News.

Michigan Letters to the Editor: Disagrees with the does-only rule for the youth deer hunt
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Sept. 27, 2024, edition of Michigan Outdoor News.

Outdoor Observations: Might decision of antlerless-only harvest during Michigan’s Liberty and Independence hunts get reversed?
Baseball legend Yogi Berra said, “It ain’t over ‘till it’s over.” That famous quote could certainly apply to the recent Michigan Natural Resources Commission decision to make the Liberty and Independence hunts for antlerless deer