
WI Daily Update: Reduce conflicts with bears emerging from their dens
Black bears across the region are emerging from their dens after winter. Here’s how you can reduce conflicts with bears at this time of year.

Black bears across the region are emerging from their dens after winter. Here’s how you can reduce conflicts with bears at this time of year.

The DNR Hayward fisheries team ran a netting survey on Spider Lake, as well as Little Spider, Clear, Fawn and North, from April 2-25, 2024, followed by an electrofishing survey for adult walleyes on April
A look at upcoming outdoors-related events from across Wisconsin published in the April 4, 2025, edition of Outdoor News.

Wisconsin cuffs and collars are field reports from DNR wardens. These reports are from the April 4, 2025, edition of Outdoor News.

Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the April 4, 2025, edition of Wisconsin Outdoor News.

Minnesota native Easton Fothergill had quite a personal comeback over the last two years to win the 2025 Bass Pro Shops Bassmaster Classic on March 23. Listen here for the details.

A former Wisconsin DNR furbearer and large carnivore biologist called the Great Lakes Region wolf population fully recovered – and said that recovery occurred years ago.
Nathan Roberts, now a biology professor at the

If you want to know what’s happening in rural America, ask a farmer.
Right now, if you ask Wisconsin’s corn growers and potato producers, they’ll tell you our state has a sandhill crane problem.

Jessica Jill Kroening, 36, of West Bend (formerly of Brownsville), the adult female suspect in a long-running three-county deer poaching case in southeast Wisconsin, made her fourth appearance in Washington County Circuit Court March 21.<br
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