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Commentary: Protecting Wisconsin’s Pelican River Forest provides multi-faceted benefits for generations to come
Conserving and maintaining working forests – and supporting the communities that depend on them – remains one of The Conservation Fund’s top priorities. We’re celebrating a hard-won victory in northern Wisconsin to secure the future

Wisconsin Letters to the Editor: Truth be told, even a knife can be called a ‘weapon of war’
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Feb. 9, 2024, edition of Wisconsin Outdoor News.

State Roundup: Wisconsin sturgeon spearers anxiously monitor the ice situation on Lake Winnebago system
Most any angst associated with this warm spell is going to center on the Lake Winnebago system where sturgeon spearers were anxiously monitoring the ice situation last week.
The 16-day sturgeon season will open

Commentary: Measure of deer hunting success evolves with experience
Sportsmen participating in outdoor activities often go through several stages of meeting their goals and defining their measure of success.
After interviewing about 1,000 hunters, University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse professors Robert Jackson and Robert Norton

Jeff Frischkorn: That weekend getaway in an RV doesn’t come without headaches
Having given up on Rving and RV ownership several years – and three units – ago, I do not miss one iota of the trials and tribulations of said products.
Not that I remain

Steve Pollick: Much good came from a sad loss of a black walnut tree
Spooky Tree was a landmark in my little rural bailiwick, and it stood for decades at the edge of a neighbor’s farm field across the ditch on the township lane that winds back toward town.<br

Tom Venesky: Don’t give rifles a shot for fall turkey season in Pennsylvania
What about rifles for fall turkeys?
When the agenda for the Pennsylvania Game Commission’s Jan. 27 meeting was released, it was revealed that the agency planned to increase the length of the fall season

Streams of Thought: Where are we at with a plan for Minnesota’s Wildlife Management Areas?
While the Minnesota DNR’s timber management – mismanagement, depending upon whom you ask – on some of the state’s major wildlife management area units has been well-documented here and elsewhere in recent months (years, actually),

Ben Moyer: The use of drones for game recovery just doesn’t fly
Early last month, state Sen. Jarrett Coleman, Bucks, Lehigh counties, circulated a memorandum seeking support for his soon-to-be-introduced legislation that would make use of aerial devices (drones) legal in Pennsylvania in game recovery.
Proponents