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- Nature Smart: A new way to monitor the amazing bird migrationBird migration is one of nature’s most interesting, yet mysterious events. On the surface, migration seems simple and straight forward, but it has many shades...
- Backyard and Beyond: Moving marsupialsOpossums are unique and wonderful creatures, our country’s only marsupial mammal, meaning that after they’re born they develop inside their mother’s pouch...
- Wisconsin Letters to the Editor: Be fair to residents with idea of DNR license fee increaseReader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Oct. 17, 2025 edition of Outdoor News. The post Wisconsin Letters to the Editor: Be fair to residents wi...
- Wisconsin Roundup: Clearing up any confusion on turkey hearing; and bears producing many cubsThe Wisconsin Natural Resources Board (NRB) will meet Wednesday, Oct. 22, at 8:30 a.m. at the DNR’s headquarters in Madison. During the proceedings, the DNR w...
- Wisconsin DNR, Department of Health Services working up new plan to decrease use of lead ammoAs attention turns more and more toward non-toxic ammunition, the Wisconsin Natural Resources Board (NRB) learned more about a new ad hoc inter-agency team enco...
- WI Daily Update: What can state pheasant hunters expect this season?Wisconsin’s pheasant hunting season opens on Oct. 18. Listen here for a rooster forecast in the state this season. The post WI Daily Update: What can state ph...
- Broken down on the water? Erie Canal towing a continuing and traditional serviceWhen the Erie Canal was created 200 years ago, canal boats filled with commercial goods and passengers were pulled down a tow path by a team of mules. This beca...
- Nearly 46 million pounds of carp removed from Illinois RiverAt the halfway point of 2025, DNR and partner agencies had removed about 46 million pounds of invasive carp from the Illinois River. That large number is the to...
- CWD ‘prevention plan’ hits Wisconsin legislatureWisconsin Rep. Jenna Jacobson (D-Oregon) and Sen. Jeff Smith (D-Brunswick) introduced what they are calling a “CWD Prevention Package” containing three bill...
- MN Daily Update: Fall fishing update on Lake of the WoodsFall fishing can be excellent on Lake of the Woods. Here’s an update on how to take advantage of the bite at this time of the season. The post MN Daily Update...
- Try these outside-the-box deer hunting maneuversRustling leaves can be deceiving, another squirrel. A stick snapping signals something much heavier. The rhythm in the leaves causes my heart to pound from adre...
- Late-arriving canvasbacks make this a hunt to rememberChuck and I sat listlessly, perched on 5-gallon buckets while guarding a little pothole off the big water where ducks like to settle in for the night. We had tr...
- Paddling to your duck spot? Here are ways to be more successfulA drake wood duck blazed past me as I leaned against an old cottonwood tree that stood alongside a narrow slough in the Mississippi River bottoms of southeaster...
- Brad Heidel excited to ‘do great things for ducks and duck hunters’ as he takes reins of Wisconsin Waterfowl AssociationBrad Heidel, the new executive director of Wisconsin Waterfowl Association (WWA), is excited to carry on the momentum retired WWA Executive Director Bruce Ross ...
- No need to dig really deep for bass in the early fallIf the vegetation is starting to color up but not yet showing fall’s brightest hues, it’s probably time for bass fishermen to use lures that range medium-de...