Wisconsin’s Outdoor Calendar
Staff Report
May 13, 2024
A look at upcoming outdoors-related events from across Wisconsin published in the May 17, 2024, edition of Wisconsin Outdoor News.
Hunting
Wisconsin Cuffs & Collars: Individual uses crossbow to hunt deer over bait after dark
Staff Report
May 13, 2024
Wisconsin cuffs and collars are field reports from Wisconsin DNR. These reports are from the May 17, 2024, edition of Outdoor News.
Wisconsin Letters to the Editor: Green Bay ‘trib’ violations not as bad as it was made to sound
Wisconsin Letters To The Editor
May 13, 2024
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the May 17, 2024, edition of Wisconsin Outdoor News.
Celebrating 100 years of the Upper Mississippi River Wildlife and Fish Refuge
Tori McCormick
May 13, 2024
Drazkowski grew up in Winona, exploring the federal refuge with a fervor and curiosity nurtured by his father and grandfather that has never relented.
Afternoons and evenings can be great times to target turkeys, especially late in the season
Site Staff
May 12, 2024
If you rewind the clock and look back at the history of the turkey season in Minnesota, you’ll see that a few decades ago, things were vastly different.
One of the changes, that’s a
Play the wind to get your gobbler this spring
Joe Martino
May 12, 2024
Perusing the hunting section of a local farm store one spring day, I asked the associate where the scent free soap and sprays were. “Man, you know turkeys can’t smell you, don’t you?” he said.
Dean Bortz: When it comes to the chore list, it’s never ‘just’ for me
Dean Bortz
May 12, 2024
So here it was, opening weekend of Wisconsin’s 2024 fishing season and even though plenty of work had been accomplished leading up to Saturday, May 4, the chore list still looked fairly foreboding.
Typically,
Getting pushy with toms: Here’s when and how to call aggressively for turkeys
Joel Nelson
May 11, 2024
We’ve all heard aggressive turkey calling – on TV, sitting next to a hunting friend, or sometimes even in the woods just after fly-down as two hens dish out an array of insults toward one
Notes off a soiled cuff: Thoughts on turkeys, CWD in Pennsylvania, and more
Jeff Mulhollem
May 11, 2024
By now, you likely have heard about researchers in Texas reporting last month on a case in which two deer hunters contracted a rare and fatal brain disease after eating venison from deer that may
