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- Gearing up for 2024 pheasants: Keep it simple, travel lightWe live in a day and age when gear – more of it, and the more expensive the better – can seem to be a solution to becoming a more successful hunter. Pheasan...
- Take proper care when mounting your scopeThe scope is getting more attention these days. Folks are buying scopes costing as much as their rifles. Manufacturers respond to the market demand by producing...
- MN Daily Update: Results are in from the August pheasant roadside surveyThe Minnesota DNR released the results of its 2024 August roadside survey. Here’s what pheasant hunters should know with the season opener about a month away....
- Notes off a soiled cuff: Why so little talk of forward-facing sonar in Pennsylvania?Why no talk here? We continue to be surprised that there is no conversation in Pennsylvania about the threat posed to fisheries by anglers using forward-facing ...
- ‘Outsider’ population ecologist offers thoughts on Wisconsin resource managementWhat would an outside professional think of Wisconsin’s wildlife situation? Dr. Bill Clark is a population ecologist, with a broad background in many wildlife...
- Bill Smith, Wisconsin NRB chair, shares vision with outdoor mediaBill Smith, chair of Wisconsin’s Natural Resources Board (NRB), has weathered a period of turmoil and change on the board, which sets policy for the Departmen...
- Fallen heroes mark the path to Ohio fishing spotsThey stand at attention, alone and silent at their final deployment. They are not standing in a faraway jungle or desolate desert. They stand guard along Ohio h...
- Patrick Durkin: Fresh fish took direct path to Mom’s heartI don’t know the secret to creating a hunter, trapper or angler, but a key to failing those goals is a mother who won’t drive her kids to the woods or water...
- Michigan’s beavers expand as trapping participation declinesBefore northern Michigan’s economy was a logging and mining economy, it was based on fur trade, largely beaver fur. Men’s hats made of beaver fur were incre...
- Research reveals extent of new challenges for waterfowlers as migration patterns evolveEvery autumn’s Grand Passage is different. That’s the nature of waterfowl migrations. Seasoned duck and goose hunters in every flyway – Pacific, Central, ...
- Michigan’s Mike Kelly is the champion the Saginaw Bay watershed needsThe 7,000 miles of rivers that flow through the 8,700 square miles of the Saginaw Bay watershed have a long history of ecological calamity. Dioxins in the Titta...
- Free fishing lure library appears in Wisconsin’s Hayward areaWhen Wisconsin high school senior Ethan Constantine approached Max Wolter, the DNR’s Sawyer County’s fish biologist, about ideas for an Eagle Scout project,...
- Preparing for a succesfull bowhunting season goes beyond target practiceI consider myself a graduate of the “University of Hard Knocks, and after logging more than 40 years of bowhunting experiences, I believe I have earned a mast...
- Perch spreaders losing ground to homemade perch ‘rigs’More than 60 years ago when I began perch fishing with my dad and grandfather, the standard operating procedure was to use a wire spreader with two snelled hook...
- Oldest conservation group in New York gets new leadershipThe oldest conservation organization in New York has been under the same leadership for more than a decade, but that is changing. Chuck Parker, who has guided t...