Hunting News
Earlier this year
- Pennsylvania’s statewide fishing report on Feb. 20, 2025Another frigid spell has ice fishermen sittin’ pretty. Here’s a look at the Pennsylvania fishing report on Feb. 20, 2025. The post Pennsylvania’s statewid...
- Brooke Rollins confirmed as Secretary of AgricultureLawyer Brooke Rollins was confirmed earlier this month as secretary of agriculture, placing a close ally of President Donald Trump into a key cabinet position a...
- Why pursue light geese in springtime? The reasons are manyTrue story: My fascination with snow geese began in bed. It was the late 1990s. I’d moved from St. Paul, Minn., to Aberdeen, S.D., only a few months earlier. ...
- Christine Thomas: Thrill of victory, agony of defeat“I think duct tape could solve all your problems,” my husband, Stan, offered helpfully (not). This sage advice was given as we were on our way to Sheboygan ...
- Gretchen Steele: Illinois legislation that hunters, anglers should know aboutOne thing we can always count on this time of year is a flurry of introduced bills in Springfield that affect outdoor enthusiasts in Illinois. This year is no e...
- Looking for a winter blues buster? Upgrade your fly fishing gearI’d gone years trying to cast heavy bass flies with my trout-fishing gear. A person can do that, but it’s a tough gig. I had to depend on the current a lot ...
- MN Daily Update: Find the fish when they’re tightly schooledThe No. 1 priority during the late ice-fishing season is to find the fish during a period when fish school up tight. That’s sometimes easier said than done. H...
- Minnesota’s Pope County pheasant group keeps conservation local for over 40 yearsGary Weber has trained six hunting dogs since 1982, the year he helped form Pope County Pheasant Restoration, a conservation/hunting nonprofit organization that...
- WI Daily Update: Find the fish when they’re tightly schooledThe No. 1 priority during the late ice-fishing season is to find the fish during a period when fish school up tight. That’s sometimes easier said than done. H...
- Steve Piatt: Good to be back on hard water in New YorkWhen my wife, Paula, and I left the Adirondacks in the late summer of 2013, it was a painful move in more ways that one. Loading up our rented U-haul for a trio...
- Des Moines to host Iowa’s 18th annual state archery tournament, beginning Feb. 28An estimated 2,200 students from more than 140 schools from across Iowa will be in the Richard O. Jacobson Exhibition Center (Bullseye) and the 4H Building (3D)...
- Evidence of river otters found at Ohio’s Mad River for first time during annual surveyA simple track in the snow and a bit of scat served to delight county wildlife officer Nick Oliver and research technician Doug Wensink on Jan. 8, during the an...
- DNR to begin capturing and collaring elk for research project in northwest MinnesotaResearch biologists from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources and University of Minnesota-Twin Cities will begin capturing and collaring elk for an in-...
- Minnesota DNR proposes bear permit area boundary revisions; public invited to commentThe Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is recommending changes to several bear permit area boundaries based on input from wildlife managers and Tribal re...
- Crappie kingdom in Minnesota’s Hubbard County: Island Lake anglers most often seek its panfishLocated seven miles north of Park Rapids in Hubbard County, Island Lake is well known locally as a decent multi-species fishery with an emphasis on producing bi...