Opinions
New York Letters to the Editor: Turkey seasons should likely begin later rather than sooner
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the May 31, 2024, edition of New York Outdoor News.
Wisconsin Letters to the Editor: Fun, but few hunters, no deer
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the May 31, 2024, edition of Wisconsin Outdoor News.
Patrick Durkin: Recent study offers detailed look at Wisconsin’s falling hunter numbers
More females and crossbow hunters joined Wisconsin’s deer hunting’s ranks the past decade, but those gains didn’t halt the state’s nearly 20-year decline in hunter numbers and license sales.
That’s one takeaway from a
Commentary: A close look at wolf, bear impacts on buck kill in Wisconsin
In the March 22 issue of Wisconsin Outdoor News, Jim Johannes argued that wolves more likely than bears demonstrate the ability to suppress deer numbers. Johannes uses an apples to orange comparison by looking at
Wisconsin State Roundup: Access to DNR wildlife biologists made difficult during reporting on northern deer herd
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers must just about lay an egg any time a license-buying sportsman utters the word deer or wolf out loud. I say that based on the reaction we received from the DNR
Bill Hilts, Jr.: New York’s Niagara River surprises lead to a huge walleye, media memories
For more than 25 years, some of the top outdoor media mavens in the country have converged in the village of Lewiston, N.Y., a cast away from the lower Niagara River.
It is a base
Ben Moyer: Notice of Stocking is a positive start for Pennsylvania fisheries
Progress in natural resource conservation is always welcome news.
Same thing for managing outdoor recreation, which is why it’s good to know the Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission’s Notice of Stocking regulation is in
Steve Pollick: H2Ohio doesn’t go far enough in Lake Erie cleanup
Every heavy rain event this spring into mid-summer in the western Lake Erie watershed is contributing to the now-annual, late-summer eruption of the infamously familiar “green goop” – toxic blue-green algae blooms – on the
Commentary: Changing technology and a new frontier in the great outdoors
Twenty years ago, I wrote a column about technology. It was inspired by a walk through an early-spring hunting and fishing expo. What I wrote then and what I’m thinking about today with forward-facing sonar
