Hunting News
Earlier this year
- Habitat projects aim to improve Driftless Region grouse numbers in WisconsinHunters who remember the ruffed grouse heydays of the 1970s and 1980s in the Driftless Region of southwestern Wisconsin may be scratching their heads, wondering...
- Three truths about training your dog to find shed antlersThe shed-dog craze seems to have slowed down some in recent years. For a while, it was a hot topic in the dog and deer world, and for good reason. At least for ...
- Mike Schoonveld: ‘The Fish Thief’ is a must-see for any avid Great Lakes anglerI’m not a film critic or movie reviewer. Few of the great movies (as proclaimed by true motion picture pundits) are on my personal favorites list and few of m...
- Wisconsin’s Whitetails Unlimited, hunting loses a friend with passing of Darrel SnellThirty-four years ago a group of northern Wisconsin deer hunters got together to form a Whitetails Unlimited chapter to support the new group founded in 1982 wh...
- Want to try Pennsylvania’s trout waters on the ice? Here’s how to do itThe snow slanted down hard, pushed ahead by what the weatherman would later say were 48-mph gusts. If I had been home during such conditions, I’d never open t...
- How to choose your next knife and how to keep it sharpMy dad used to say that only a dull knife would cut you, but I found out the hard way that that isn’t totally the case when I borrowed my grandpa Eli’s knif...
- A doe with a muzzleloader helps thin Ohio’s South Bass Island deer herdSince I moved off Ohio’s South Bass Island, aka Put-in-Bay, after my retirement in 2011, I have watched as the island’s deer population jumped from a couple...
- Minnesota foundation helps youth with life-threatening illnesses ‘just be kids’Dan Oliver remembers. He remembers that Lake of the Woods ice-fishing trip several years ago. One night, sitting at a lodge bar sipping an adult beverage with f...
- Daily 10-panfish bag limit offered for Wisconsin’s Big Green Lake and other watersBig Green Lake, one of Wisconsin’s most popular fishing destinations, may soon see the daily panfish bag limit drop from 25 to 10 if sportsmen support a DNR p...
- Options abound for your next coyote rifleWith deer gun season behind us, it is a good time to grab your coyote rifle. The breeding season for these canines runs through February. Coyotes pay no mind to...
- Here’s how to manage a timber sale on your landMost of us who enjoy spending time in the outdoors readily recognize the recreational value of owning wooded land – having a place to hunt, hike, camp, view w...
- Tom Venesky: Timing of new CWD cases in Pennsylvania poses riskYears ago, as chronic wasting disease was starting to spread across south-central Pennsylvania and northward, I asked a biologist friend if he thought the disea...
- CWD debate heats up in North Dakota LegislatureThe North Dakota Legislature currently is considering several bills regarding chronic wasting disease, sparking heated debate among hunters, conservation groups...
- Oil and gas advocate named by Trump to lead agency that manages federal landsPresident Donald Trump has nominated a longtime oil and gas industry representative to oversee an agency that manages a quarter-billion acres of public land con...
- Bill Hilts, Jr.: NWTF Hall of Fame call is a worthy honor for New York’s Ernie Calandrelli“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” – Winston Churchill Ernie Calandrelli of Lewiston, N.Y., truly believes he is...