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Hunters steaming into final week of deer season
The state’s deer season wraps up Sunday, and it appears hunters will easily top last year’s harvest total. DNR has released numbers from the first weekend of the late-winter and special CWD seasons, which produced

If you fill the feeders, they will come
Take your bird-feeding responsibility seriously.

Reminiscing about the year that was in the outdoors
Here’s to a great 2017 – and hopes of fishing and hunting more, and maybe trying some new things in 2018 as well.

Deer kill holding steady, trending upward
Muzzleloader hunt runs Jan. 6-9.

Alsheimer leaves lasting legacy in the whitetail world
Like so many in the deer hunting community, especially in New York, I was saddened to hear of the sudden passing of Charlie Alsheimer a few days before the New Year. The fact that he

Pennsylvania Game Commission’s officer name-change is a step in the wrong direction
Field officers with a diverse set of duties need a better name than the antiquated and single-focused term “game warden.”

From Mille Lacs to CWD to the Hautmans to white-tailed deer hunting: the top 10 Minnesota outdoors stories of 2017
The past 12 months saw thousands of outdoors headlines across the state, region, and nation, but here are the topics that stood out for staffers at Outdoor News.

Winter can be tough on a fishing fanatic
Over the last several months, I have been bombarded by work and home obligations that have kept me from spending much-needed time on the water. But if I don’t pick up a fishing rod soon,

Remembering Charlie Alsheimer: A legend who left behind a forever-legacy
When I received a text from Dan Schmidt, editor-in-chief for Deer & Deer Hunting, in the early morning hours of Jan. 1, letting me know that Charlie Alsheimer – renowned whitetail behaviorist, photographer, writer, and