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- Ohio’s Free Fishing Days are June 15-16Ohio’s annual free fishing days on Saturday, June 15, and Sunday, June 16, give all residents a chance to fish at any public waterway without a license, accor...
- Wisconsin Letters to the Editor: Forest Service, DNR policies compound hunter attritionReader-submitted letters to the editor published in the June 14, 2024, edition of Wisconsin Outdoor News. The post Wisconsin Letters to the Editor: Forest Servi...
- MN Daily Update: Hunters shatter state’s harvest record during spring turkey seasonMinnesota’s 2024 spring turkey hunting season is officially a record-breaker after the season ended on May 31. Listen here for details. The post MN Daily Upda...
- Mike Schoonveld: Some noteworthy highlights from recently-published Lake Michigan reportThe Cooperative Science and Monitoring Initiative – CSMI – is a binational effort by the United States and Canada to coordinate Great Lakes research and mon...
- Commentary: Death of Wisconsin prairie chicken at hand?The greater prairie chicken (GPC) is a native species to Wisconsin. There are fewer than 500 prairie chickens remaining in Wisconsin, with two-thirds of them co...
- WI Daily Update: Support walleye research by fishing on Escanaba LakeYou can support walleye research by fishing at Escanaba Lake. Here are the details. The post WI Daily Update: Support walleye research by fishing on Escanaba La...
- Bowhunters played major role in tracking expansion of Illinois bobcatsDespite the difficulty people have spotting bobcats in Illinois’ wilderness, DNR relied on sightings by the public to document the predator’s expansion in t...
- Minnesota DNR fire teams stay on alert during the spring seasonMany locations in northern Minnesota received abundant rainfall during the middle of May, and no one was happier to see the precipitation fall than Ben Lang. As...
- White bass bring walleye anglers back to Wisconsin’s Wolf RiverWisconsin towns along the Wolf River recently saw a second surge of anglers chasing a spawning run, but this one was for white bass, not the better known walley...
- Tales of when predators attack…turkey decoysNature’s surprises often turn routine hunts into lifetime memories. Sometimes you smile, wondering why a mallard hen would expose her waddling brood to avian ...
- Pennsylvania’s Conneaut Lake a nice choice for late spring bass fishingFishing adventures are more fun when shared with a buddy, so I asked my friend, Mark, to accompany me for a bass fishing adventure at Conneaut Lake in Crawford ...
- State Roundup: Start with Iron County when looking deep into issues with Northern Wisconsin’s deer herdSteve Heiting’s deer series continues with a look at Iron and Ashland counties, along with an accompanying article on the front page of our June 14 print edit...
- Wisconsin Natural Resources Board seeking more input on wake boat issuesWake boats, and issues associated with their use, caught the attention of Wisconsin Natural Resources Board (NRB) members in May and will be on their agenda in ...
- Black carp movement is evident in IllinoisEfforts to monitor black carp in Illinois rivers continue to strengthen, with a bounty program that pays anglers for catches remaining in place and the species ...
- Hybrid striped bass can be found in many Ohio waters, and certainly earn their hard-fighting reputationHeterosis (hybrid vigor) means a hybrid striper has more potential than the parents to grow faster, attain a beefier physique, and show a higher tolerance to st...