Hunting News
Before 2024
- Winterizing your boat means more than just focusing on mechanical partsA spring “shakedown cruise,” is normal practice for many boaters. This is when they go to the lake specifically to check to make sure everything is working ...
- Late-winter deer season in Illinois seen as chance to boost ‘time spent’ in the woodsMore than 16% of Illinois deer hunters spend 25 days or more in the woods each season. But half the state’s hunters (49%) spend only between two and 10 days h...
- Illinois’ statewide fishing report on Dec. 8, 2023Cooler water brings muskie bite, crappies feeding hard. A look at the Illinois fishing report on Dec. 8, 2023. The post Illinois’ statewide fishing report on ...
- Remington closing its firearms manufacturing plant in Ilion, N.Y.RemArms, or what continues to be known by many as Remington, announced Nov. 30 that the company would close its firearms manufacturing plant in Ilion, in Herkim...
- Dan Small Outdoors Radio: Show 1849Environmental historian Lowell Baier discusses whether wolves should still be protected by the Endangered Species Act. Florence County, Wisconsin offers great s...
- Episode 35 — The Family Forest Carbon ProgramHost Dan Ladd talks with Sierra Giraud, of the Family Forest Carbon Program, which is working to become established in New York and across the Northeast. The pr...
- December deer hunting: Unconventional warm weather calls for unconventional tacticsI distinctly remember the weather that day. It was a lackluster December day – slightly overcast, with temps at least five degrees above normal. Sure, there w...
- Wisconsin Letters to the Editor: Two significant problems exist with state’s new wakeboat bill, and plenty of deer thoughtsReader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Dec. 15, 2023, print edition of Wisconsin Outdoor News. The post Wisconsin Letters to the Editor: Two si...
- Necropsy finds Wisconsin cougar killed by bowhunter was healthy, well fedA necropsy on the cougar killed in mid-November by a bowhunter in Wisconsin’s Buffalo County found the cat was healthy, well fed, and carrying good fat reserv...
- Wisconsin Mixed Bag: Natural Resources Board to meet Dec. 13 in MadisonThe Natural Resources Board (NRB) will meet in-person at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 13, in Room G09, State Natural Resources Building (GEF2), 101 S. Webster Stre...
- Ask a fisheries biologist: No, pike don’t lose their teethSome time ago, I asked about fishing rumors or myths that people have heard and a friendly reader reminded me of an interesting rumor concerning northern pike. ...
- University of Wisconsin students, staff work worthy cause with Green Bay wild rice restoration projectA story about the Green Bay wild rice restoration project serves as one more reminder of just how fortunate we are here in Wisconsin to have so many volunteers ...
- Partnerships key in 10-year project dedicated to restoring wild rice along west shore of Wisconsin’s Green BayA 10-year project to restore wild rice beds all along the west shore of Green Bay continued this fall as state and federal employees joined forces with a lot of...
- Wisconsin legislators schedule listening sessions with public after deer harvest drop in Northern Forest ZoneNorthern Wisconsin deer hunters looking at the buck kill decline from this season when compared to 2022 (down 26.6%) and the five-year average (down 14.3%) expe...
- Ben Moyer: Selfless steelhead angler an example all can learn fromHopefully, the young man described below is an Outdoor News reader and will recognize himself here. I didn’t ask him, as the moment was his. There was no call...