Opinions
Dan Ladd: Weather impacting outdoor recreation in New York this summer
Before talking about the extended hot weather pattern’s effect on outdoor recreation, let’s reflect on something a little more serious.
Mike Raykovicz: Be mindful of invasive species on your travels this summer
It’s the middle of July and many New Yorkers will be traveling to camping and fishing venues throughout the state and beyond its borders. However, this travel is not without the danger of attracting and
Wisconsin Letters to the Editor: Are CDAC members wasting their time if NRB isn’t listening?
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the July 26, 2024, edition of Wisconsin Outdoor News.
Wisconsin State Roundup: Still no resolution to suspended trout rearing program
Local sportsmen’s club volunteers who have raised trout in cooperation with the DNR for more than 55 years continue to try to make sense of the agency’s decision to suspend the popular co-op rearing program.<br
Patrick Durkin: Wisconsin’s drumming grouse numbers take big jump during latest spring survey
Six years after Wisconsin policymakers panicked over declines in the ruffed grouse population, the state’s “thunder chickens” climbed atop their drumming logs in big numbers this spring.
The DNR reports that statewide drumming rose
Joe Fellegy: Mille Lacs mess gets messier, and money for the Minnesota fishing museum
There is no good excuse for the present no-keeping-of-a-walleye regulation until mid-August on Mille Lacs. Do any of the other “big eight” lakes in Minnesota have such extremist regs?
Ben Moyer: Pennsylvania lags behind in debate over use of trail cameras
This frequently happens when I search the Pennsylvania House or Senate websites for specific information. I’ll encounter something else that’s unrelated, but interesting.
That’s how I learned about House Bill 59, which was introduced
Mike Schoonveld: Boating fatality numbers at all-time low
I am a frequent boater and have been most of my life. I don’t think of boating as a particularly unsafe activity (it’s not) but I also don’t think of it as more or less
Streams of Thought: Nominate outdoor leaders from your Minnesota communities
It’s nearly August (how can that be?), so it’s the time of year again when we at Outdoor News send out the call for nominations for our Outdoor Leaders Award.
Selecting winners of our
