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- MN Daily Update: When needed, call in a dog to find your deerA dog can be a great resource for helping you to find your deer after a shot. Tim Lesmeister explains how to find a dog near you in Minnesota and Wisconsin. The...
- Oak Duke: Tips for hunting the tail end of the deer seasonPutting a late season buck on the ground is a challenging task. But when I do, it’s usually been in snow. And over the years, I have found that usually, the s...
- Late-season pheasants are fun to hunt, but be careful out there with your dogsThere’s nothing quite like the explosion of a rooster out of a snow-covered patch of sawgrass and cattails. It’s the promise of that moment that keeps the h...
- Steve Sarley: My respect for catfishing continues to growI rarely write about catfish because I rarely fish for them. My mistake. There are two kinds of cats that we normally fish for here in Illinois, and really acro...
- Jeremiah Haas: Northern Lights put on a spectacular show; here’s how they occurIt isn’t often that I can be pulled away from my work and spend an entire evening wandering around, staring at the sky. The post Jeremiah Haas: Northern Light...
- Thanksgiving comes with memories of special hunts before dinnerPeering out the picture window and waiting with keen interest to see the line of cars and trucks I knew would be pulling into the driveway, I silently hoped my ...
- MN Daily Update: On the road for trophy muskies in late fallHitting the road to find open water might be worth it right now for anglers looking to catch a trophy muskie. Tim Lesmeister details how to catch them this late...
- Commentary: USFWS seeks changes to Endangered Species Act; environmental groups reactThe Department of the Interior’s U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Nov. 19 announced four proposed rules to restore Endangered Species Act regulations to thei...
- Steve Piatt: By golly, Miss Molly is a hunterOwners of hunting dogs are rightfully proud of them; at least they should be. My wife, Paula, and I fit that mold, always happy to have a fellow hunter – and ...
- Nature Smart: What’s the story with black-phase squirrels?Even common critters in nature can exhibit amazing behaviors or characteristics. The Eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) may be the most common yet ove...
- WI Daily Update: On the road for trophy muskies in late fallHitting the road to find open water might be worth it right now for anglers looking to catch a trophy muskie. Tim Lesmeister details how to catch them this late...
- Gretchen Steele: Giving thanks for the miracles under our bootsThanksgiving weekend has a way of slowing us down – if only for a moment. Maybe it’s the quiet of the late-November woods, or the long shadows across the bo...
- National Parks to raise fees for millions of international tourists to popular U.S. parksThe National Park Service said on Tuesday, Nov. 25 that it is going to start charging the millions of international tourists who visit U.S. parks each year an e...
- Bill Hilts, Jr.: Reflecting on opening days of New York’s big game seasonHow often have you heard “where has the time gone?” More than I care to think about or even count, and it’s starting to happen with individual days like t...
- Crappies are anglers’ top targets on Prairie Lake in St. Louis County, Minn.There aren’t many other fishing options near Prairie Lake in St. Louis County. Located about 17 miles south of Floodwood, Prairie is a 794-acre fishery that m...