Opinions
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
Mike Schoonveld: Nighttime fishing requires abiding by common-sense rules and knowing your insurance policy
There’s an “old saying” coined not long after the start of the Internet era in the 1990s that is simple: “Don’t believe everything you see or read on the Internet.”
Great advice and advice
Tom Venesky: CWD threat no reason to pass on venison
One of the main reasons we hunt for deer is food.
Sure, hunting to survive isn’t a necessity in this day and age, but for many of us venison is a delicacy, and it
