Wisconsin’s Outdoor Calendar
Staff Report
November 24, 2025
A look at upcoming outdoors-related events from across Wisconsin published in the Nov. 28, 2025 edition of Outdoor News.
Wisconsin
Wisconsin Cuffs & Collars: Crossbow-hunting deer for years without first obtaining a license
Staff Report
November 24, 2025
Wisconsin cuffs and collars are field reports from the DNR. These reports are from the Nov. 28, 2025 edition of Outdoor News.
Wisconsin Letters to the Editor: Weber identifies the real essence of deer hunting
Wisconsin Letters To The Editor
November 24, 2025
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Nov. 28, 2025 edition of Wisconsin Outdoor News.
State Roundup: Jeff Pritzl, Wisconsin DNR’s deer program leader, to retire in December
Dean Bortz
November 24, 2025
If Jeff Pritzl’s name sounds familiar to readers, it’s likely because you’ve seen it on these pages fairly often over the past four, five years as Pritzl ran the DNR’s statewide deer program.
Pritzl
WI Daily Update: What to know about upcoming hunting seasons
Outdoor News
November 24, 2025
Wisconsin’s firearms deer season is taking place right now, but it’s not the only season underway. Here’s more hunting season details from the Badger State.
Patrick Durkin: Bowhunters’ ‘tools of choice’ don’t matter to deer
Patrick Durkin
November 24, 2025
Wisconsin’s bowhunters registered 103,904 deer during 2024’s four-month arrow-flinging season, the fourth highest archery kill in modern times and the fifth in which they’ve killed over 100,000 whitetails.
That success – driven mostly by
Wisconsin’s Spooner fish hatchery gets a facelift
Jim Bishop
November 24, 2025
Thanks to the help of a Hayward painting company, Phase 1 of restoring a Wisconsin fish hatchery building in Spooner, built in 1913, is now complete.
Crew members from Chris Schobert Painting, of Hayward,
Wisconsin voter turnout, wolf delisting top Hunter Nation ‘wish list’
Beckie Gaskill
November 24, 2025
Hunter Nation leaders and U.S. Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-Wisconsin) urged Wisconsin sportsmen and women to vote and to ramp up pressure on wolf management issues, saying strong voter turnout among hunters, anglers, and trappers could
Here’s how to pursue underrated ‘salmonids’ through the ice
Joe Albert
November 23, 2025
There’s a neighbor at our cabin whose family has fished the lake decades longer than I’ve been alive.
This is Lake Carlos in the Alexandria, Minn., area and growing up, I used to be
