Outdoor News
Earlier this month
- Wisconsin’s Outdoor CalendarA look at upcoming outdoors-related events from across Wisconsin published in the Sept. 5, 2025, edition of Outdoor News. The post Wisconsin’s Outdoor Calenda...
- Nature smart: A trip to the Galapagos Islands and the differences between turtles and tortoisesI think it would be safe to say that most people are aware of turtles and tortoises. But at the same time, I think there is a lot of confusion surrounding these...
- Backyard and Beyond: Late-summer scenesChuck Kartak was watching an osprey nest just as a parent came in with a meal for its twins. These fish hawks are experts at snagging their prey, ending up with...
- Wisconsin Cuffs & Collars: Multiple people caught snagging sturgeon below Dells damWisconsin cuffs and collars are field reports from DNR wardens. These reports are from the Sept. 5, 2025, edition of Outdoor News. The post Wisconsin Cuffs & Co...
- EHD hitting deer hard in southeast OhioA fast-spreading deer disease has hit areas of southeast Ohio hard in this late summer season, according to the ODNR Division of Wildlife. Epizootic hemorrhagic...
- Wisconsin Letters to the Editor: And the vote goes to … Gooch’sReader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Sept. 5, 2025, edition of Wisconsin Outdoor News. The post Wisconsin Letters to the Editor: And the vote...
- Commentary: A few suggestions to help hunters harvest more does where neededDeer hunters have gradually and reluctantly moved past the old mindset of avoiding doe harvests. In some parts of Wisconsin protecting does is important, but fo...
- Four reasons you aren’t having the bowhunting success you wantMy wife and I were in our kitchen almost 15 years ago on a summer Sunday afternoon when I brought up deer hunting, a subject she’d heard me mention frequently...
- MN Daily Update: 13 new conservation officers graduateThirteen individuals recently graduated from the Minnesota DNR’s Conservation Officer Academy and have begun patrolling Minnesota’s fields, waters, and wood...
- WI Daily Update: Rare subtropical wood stork found in WisconsinA deer hunter out scouting recently discovered a rare subtropical wood stork that found its way to the wilds of Wisconsin. Listen here for details. The post WI ...
- Drifting along Minnesota’s Driftless Region makes for great kayak fishingMy jerkbait skipped across the turbid water as I cast into a well-known river in the Driftless Region of southeastern Minnesota. The lure came to rest under a l...
- Mike Raykovicz: A ‘modest’ proposal for a doe seasonWhen Jonathan Swift wrote “A Modest Proposal” in 1729, it was widely regarded as an inflammatory essay. In his essay, Swift suggested that the children of t...
- Outdoor horoscopes for the week of Sept. 1 to Sept. 7, 2025♈ Aries (March 21 – April 19) Someone will say, “Teal season’s easy – just point and shoot.” You’ll discover otherwise as blue-wings zip by like f...
- Wisconsin’s Brett Leable spreading word on free-dive fish spearing“I always say if you like to hunt, and you like to fish, you will love spearfishing,” Brett Leable said. “It’s basically hunting while underwater.” Le...
- A day of sampling fish on the Mississippi River is an eye-opening experienceFish smells gone wild and the baking August sun suddenly vanished when the unmistakable bill of a paddlefish surprisingly and seductively began bobbing up and d...