Outdoor News
Earlier this year
- New York Letters to the Editor: Competition is the real elephant in the bowhunter’s roomReader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Feb. 21, 2025, edition of New York Outdoor News. The post New York Letters to the Editor: Competition is...
- Dan Ladd: Is there any good news for New York gun owners?There’s been some hope coming down the pike lately for New York gun owners, mostly because of two recent developments at the national level. First is the Cons...
- Big Butternut Lake in Wisconsin’s Polk County earns its reputation as a walleye stopThe local DNR fisheries team surveyed Big Butternut Lake to assess the fishery during 2022 with early spring fyke netting, early spring and late spring night el...
- Wisconsin’s Outdoor CalendarA look at upcoming outdoors-related events from across Wisconsin published in the Feb. 21, 2025, edition of Outdoor News. The post Wisconsin’s Outdoor Calenda...
- Wisconsin Cuffs & Collars: Elk or deer in the back of his truck? Driver gets reportedWisconsin cuffs and collars are field reports from the DNR. These reports are from the Feb. 21, 2025, edition of Wisconsin Outdoor News. The post Wisconsin Cuff...
- Wisconsin Letters to the Editor: Some readers blaming the wrong people on carcass taggingReader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Feb. 21, 2025, edition of Wisconsin Outdoor News. The post Wisconsin Letters to the Editor: Some readers...
- Michigan Reader Stories: Father, son share emotional elk hunt that at one point didn’t seem possibleWe started into the pines moving slowly through the deep snow. The bulls were already in the woods on the opposite side headed to bed down. This stalk was diffe...
- WI Daily Update: DNR to begin prescribed burning across the stateThe Wisconsin DNR announced that it intends to begin prescribed burning across the state. Here’s what to know. The post WI Daily Update: DNR to begin prescrib...
- Habitat projects aim to improve Driftless Region grouse numbers in WisconsinHunters who remember the ruffed grouse heydays of the 1970s and 1980s in the Driftless Region of southwestern Wisconsin may be scratching their heads, wondering...
- Three truths about training your dog to find shed antlersThe shed-dog craze seems to have slowed down some in recent years. For a while, it was a hot topic in the dog and deer world, and for good reason. At least for ...
- Mike Schoonveld: ‘The Fish Thief’ is a must-see for any avid Great Lakes anglerI’m not a film critic or movie reviewer. Few of the great movies (as proclaimed by true motion picture pundits) are on my personal favorites list and few of m...
- Wisconsin’s Whitetails Unlimited, hunting loses a friend with passing of Darrel SnellThirty-four years ago a group of northern Wisconsin deer hunters got together to form a Whitetails Unlimited chapter to support the new group founded in 1982 wh...
- Want to try Pennsylvania’s trout waters on the ice? Here’s how to do itThe snow slanted down hard, pushed ahead by what the weatherman would later say were 48-mph gusts. If I had been home during such conditions, I’d never open t...
- How to choose your next knife and how to keep it sharpMy dad used to say that only a dull knife would cut you, but I found out the hard way that that isn’t totally the case when I borrowed my grandpa Eli’s knif...
- A doe with a muzzleloader helps thin Ohio’s South Bass Island deer herdSince I moved off Ohio’s South Bass Island, aka Put-in-Bay, after my retirement in 2011, I have watched as the island’s deer population jumped from a couple...