Hunting News
Before 2024
- MN Daily Update: Help gather and sell black spruce cones to state nurseryThe Minnesota DNR is asking state citizens to help collect and then sell black spruce cones in northern Minnesota to the state forest nursery. Here’s how to g...
- WI Daily Update: CWD found in another new western countyThe Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources announced on Nov. 30 that it has confirmed the first positive test result for chronic wasting disease in a wild de...
- Christine Thomas: A great 2023 deer season is a wrapFor reasons that I do not know, and that do not matter to this narrative, my husband, Stan, had arranged to meet a client at the Arnott Milling Company in Arnot...
- For Minnesota’s Fred Bengtson, four decades with the DNR was an extension of a lifetime with wildlifeFred Bengtson left his job without even the rumor of fanfare. He didn’t give a farewell speech to his staff, or emote on social media. A party? No chance. Aft...
- How much deer disease can society tolerate? Wildlife managers weigh effects, results of cullingCulls in one form or another are how we produced domestic animals and many crop varieties (selective breeding is a form of culling). It’s been used to change ...
- Leashed tracking dog comes home after being lost four days in the New York woodsJust before midnight on Nov. 2, Brenda Dixon heard something on her front porch. She quickly opened the door and there was Dachs, their small dog that had been ...
- Advocate reminds New York lakefront owners of safe ways to use de-icerA Warren County woman is again reminding lake-front property owners to practice safety in the use of ice-eaters and/or bubblers. Cindy Mead, of Horicon, took on...
- New York Letters to the Editor: Ammo background checks were part of the plan all alongReader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Dec. 15, 2023, edition of New York Outdoor News. The post New York Letters to the Editor: Ammo backgroun...
- Dan Ladd: Hard to blame Remington for leaving New YorkWhen Smith & Wesson announced in 2021 that it was leaving Massachusetts, and taking over 700 jobs with them, many wondered if one day Remington would eventually...
- Walleyes, smallmouths the story at Elkhart Lake in Wisconsin’s Sheboygan CountySheboygan County’s Elkhart Lake ranks as the state’s fourth deepest natural lake and its dissolved oxygen levels at depth are high enough to not only be con...
- Wisconsin’s Outdoor CalendarA look at Wisconsin outdoor events from across the state published in the Dec. 15, 2023, edition of Wisconsin Outdoor News. The post Wisconsin’s Outdoor Calen...
- Nature Smart: The art of burying nutsA local TV news station recently asked me during an interview how squirrels find their buried nuts. This is an example of a super-cool thing in nature that most...
- Photos from the backyard: A magpie drops byBackyard reader Rita Tepley was trying to hurry out the door a couple weeks ago when she glanced at her feeders – and stopped in her tracks. Like all good pho...
- Hunting with Wisconsin’s ‘duck whisperers’ offers glimpse at unique calling styleMost waterfowl hunters buy a commercially-made wood or composite duck or goose call to attract their favorite species into shotgun range. However, some hunters ...
- Wisconsin Cuffs & Collars: Hunter harassment near Genesee DepotWisconsin cuffs and collars are Field reports from Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. These reports are from the Dec. 15, 2023, edition of Wisconsin Out...