Outdoor News
Earlier this month
- A 2025 grouse tour? Minnesota has more options than you might realizeFor more than a decade, my brother and I and sometimes others have annually embarked on our “Grouse Tour.” Sometimes we’re on the hunt for ruffed grouse, ...
- With concerns over Federal money, Wisconsin DNR budget remains a mysteryThe Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) 2025-27 budget is enough to keep current operations running, but without major additions. Maggie Hutter, DNR...
- MN Daily Update: Walk-in access acres open todayThere are a number of important dates coming up as it pertains to Minnesota’s outdoors, including today, Sept. 1, being the day the public can start utilizing...
- WI Daily Update: Bear hunting in Wisconsin more popular than everWisconsin’s black bear hunting season opens on Sept. 3, and the season has never been more popular in the Badger State. Listen here for more details. The post...
- Sub-gauges for upland game? Here’s what to considerSub-gauges, are they viable choices for upland game or just a commercial gimmick? Using one has become more of a reality with advances in powder, shot, wads, an...
- September means smallmouths on a binge in these Michigan watersFishing for smallmouth bass in Michigan is exceptional during the summer months. Still, anglers know that cooler nights and the resulting drop in water temperat...
Last month
- September bluegills can be a tasty challengeBluegills can be pushovers in May when it is easy to find the willing biters. You may have to work to find them in September, however. The challenge starts with...
- Wisconsin DNR appears to have cleared detailed budget audit hurdleThe Legislative Audit Bureau (LAB) finally released its audit of the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) management of its Fish and Wildlife Account to the St...
- Wisconsin NRB tracking Minnesota wake boat studyThe Wisconsin Natural Resources Board (NRB) again heard from citizens stressing that wake boats are deserving of more attention from the NRB and Department of N...
- Steve McComas: Lake drawdowns: some intended, others by surpriseEarlier in August, all the water of Lake Alice, a 26-acre lake in William O’Brien State Park (north of Stillwater, Minn.), drained accidentally into the St. C...
- Lackawaxen River’s redbreast sunfish brighten September fishing in PennsylvaniaThe Lackawaxen is one of the great rivers of Pennsylvania. In the spring and later in the fall the Lackawaxen is full of stocked trout but now at the end of sum...
- Mike Schoonveld: Coping with ‘lure addiction’ requires workThe term posed in the title of this column is specifically about all the fishing lures I own and what I do with them. I’ve probably got a million of them – ...
- Illinois bobcat season again to max out at 2,000 permitsThe 10th Illinois bobcat season won’t see the changes previous seasons have, but interest in securing one of the 2,000 hunting and trapping permits distribute...
- Quinney Fishing Club makes a difference on Wisconsin’s Lake WinnebagoWhile there usually isn’t much going on in Quinney, a small unincorporated community on Lake Winnebago’s east shore, the local fishing club named for the co...
- Commentary: Make sure your outdoors ‘last call’ doesn’t come with regretsThe outdoors – Mother Nature – offers each of us intriguing experiences away from large social crowds of humans. Our learning experiences and personal priva...