Outdoor News
Earlier this year
- Gretchen Steele: Illinois legislation that hunters, anglers should know aboutOne thing we can always count on this time of year is a flurry of introduced bills in Springfield that affect outdoor enthusiasts in Illinois. This year is no e...
- Looking for a winter blues buster? Upgrade your fly fishing gearI’d gone years trying to cast heavy bass flies with my trout-fishing gear. A person can do that, but it’s a tough gig. I had to depend on the current a lot ...
- MN Daily Update: Find the fish when they’re tightly schooledThe No. 1 priority during the late ice-fishing season is to find the fish during a period when fish school up tight. That’s sometimes easier said than done. H...
- Minnesota’s Pope County pheasant group keeps conservation local for over 40 yearsGary Weber has trained six hunting dogs since 1982, the year he helped form Pope County Pheasant Restoration, a conservation/hunting nonprofit organization that...
- WI Daily Update: Find the fish when they’re tightly schooledThe No. 1 priority during the late ice-fishing season is to find the fish during a period when fish school up tight. That’s sometimes easier said than done. H...
- Steve Piatt: Good to be back on hard water in New YorkWhen my wife, Paula, and I left the Adirondacks in the late summer of 2013, it was a painful move in more ways that one. Loading up our rented U-haul for a trio...
- Des Moines to host Iowa’s 18th annual state archery tournament, beginning Feb. 28An estimated 2,200 students from more than 140 schools from across Iowa will be in the Richard O. Jacobson Exhibition Center (Bullseye) and the 4H Building (3D)...
- Evidence of river otters found at Ohio’s Mad River for first time during annual surveyA simple track in the snow and a bit of scat served to delight county wildlife officer Nick Oliver and research technician Doug Wensink on Jan. 8, during the an...
- DNR to begin capturing and collaring elk for research project in northwest MinnesotaResearch biologists from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources and University of Minnesota-Twin Cities will begin capturing and collaring elk for an in-...
- Minnesota DNR proposes bear permit area boundary revisions; public invited to commentThe Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is recommending changes to several bear permit area boundaries based on input from wildlife managers and Tribal re...
- Crappie kingdom in Minnesota’s Hubbard County: Island Lake anglers most often seek its panfishLocated seven miles north of Park Rapids in Hubbard County, Island Lake is well known locally as a decent multi-species fishery with an emphasis on producing bi...
- Minnesota’s Outdoor CalendarA look at upcoming outdoors-related events from across Minnesota published in the Feb. 21, 2025, edition of Outdoor News. The post Minnesota’s Outdoor Calenda...
- Backyard and Beyond: Winter favors the hardy – and the luckyWhen Ray Pruss and his grandson, Archer, built a rugged statue and named it Stoneman, did they know that one day a red fox would stop by? Because a bobcat had b...
- Minnesota Cuffs & Collars: A reminder of the rules when it comes to burningMinnesota cuffs and collars are field reports from DNR conservation officers. These reports are from the Feb. 21, 2025, edition of Outdoor News. The post Minnes...
- Steve Carney: Minnesota sportsmen’s group celebrates 85 yearsI recently was asked to speak to a sportsmen’s group in Rice, Minn., and upon doing some research, I couldn’t believe its history of giving to the community...