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Ron Schara: It’s fall game survey season, and the numbers will be crunched
It’s game survey season, in case you haven’t noticed – a time for raising expectations. Or lowering them.
Recently, outdoors headlines have been filled with surveys about pheasant counts, duck numbers, grouse counts …
Steve Sarley: Butkus? Rodman? My toughest athlete is an angler
There have been a lot of tough guys who have played for our Chicago sports teams. Who is the toughest athlete that you can think of, past or present?
In football, I offer the
Commentary: Interior order threatens Land and Water Conservation Fund
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers is calling for the immediate reversal of Secretarial Order 3442, signed earlier this month by Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, which undermines the Land and Water Conservation Fund – America’s most successful
Minnesota Letters to the Editor: Walleye limit change? Where’s the data showing that it’s necessary?
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Sept. 19, 2025 edition of Minnesota Outdoor News.
Streams of Thought: Will audit of Minnesota timber harvest spur the DNR to emphasize wildlife again?
How Minnesota’s forested acres – on Wildlife Management Areas and in state forests, alike – are managed for timber harvest matters.
Few know that better than Tim Quincer who, on Sept. 9, retired as
Illinois Letters to the Editor: Outdoorsmen need to set better examples for youths
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Sept. 19, 2025 edition of Illinois Outdoor News.
Ralph Loos: New ‘rewilding’ law in Illinois an open invite for skeptics among us
Anytime a missive begins “Illinois is the first state to . . .” or “Illinois has done what no other state has done . . .” most of us who’ve been around the block a
New York Letters to the Editor: Some are cheated by 500-foot X-bow setback distance rule
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Sept. 19, 2025 edition of New York Outdoor News.
Dan Ladd: What’s next for New York hunters in wake of crossbow expansion?
As the excitement of deer season looms, especially the opening of archery hunting seasons, the expanded crossbow hunting opportunities are an obvious highlight.
While certainly not every New York hunter is on board with
