Those looking to bear hunt in Minnesota in 2026 have until May 1 to apply in the lottery for a bear hunting license from the DNR. Listen here for details.
Whenever folks badmouth public servants who work for schools, agencies or simply “the government,” you’d like to stand them before a crowded auditorium to meet guys like Neil Payne, Keith McCaffery or the late William
What follows are a few anecdotes from a topic I’ve covered in this space before, but they bear repeating.
Just like deer hunters on Long Island this past season, turkey hunters on state-managed lands in Suffolk County have a new reservation process.
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation said turkey
The arc of the American hunter has been bending south for a long time.
Fifty years ago, hunters were far more numerous. Today, according to government statistics, they comprise but 4.5% of adult Americans.
The turkey hunting season in New York officially gets underway with the annual youth turkey hunting weekend, April 25-26. Since 2004, the hunt has provided the opportunity for junior hunters (ages 12-15) to go afield
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) issued 15,245 bear harvest authorizations (kill tags) for the 2026 fall bear season. Some of those recipients are considering a transfer of their tag to a qualified person.<br
Even as sales of most fishing, trapping, and hunting licenses decline in Wisconsin, the all-inclusive conservation patron license has grown nearly 50% in popularity after bottoming out in 2012.
Sales of the $165 patron
When answering a gobbler’s call, sometimes success in closing the deal requires reverse psychology.
The auditory experience afforded by a lusty gobble is electric, intensely resonant and emotionally charged. A hunter’s call in response
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