Outdoor News
Earlier this year
- Glenn Sapir: A patch of green shows some potential as a food plotWhen it grows up, it might qualify as a food plot. And this year, I do expect to expand it by a few feet, but by anybody’s measurement, the green oasis on the...
- Redemption in the pumpkin patch; reflecting on a Wisconsin turkey hunting seasonWhat I love most about spring turkey hunting is the variety of weather conditions, bird behavior, and wildlife encounters each season brings. No two seasons, or...
- Nature Smart: Examining the crazy ways of Western grebesWhen I was a kid in the 1960s, my family watched the Walt Disney program on Sunday evenings, like most families. It was one of the few programs the entire famil...
- Examining Wisconsin’s fish trains and the era of ‘badger’ carsIn the second half of the 19th century, market hunting was decimating the nation’s wildlife resources. In Wisconsin, deer, bear, ducks, geese, quail, prairie ...
- Part three of Ernest Hemingway’s “Big Two-Hearted River”In the morning the sun was up and the tent was starting to get hot. Nick crawled out under the mosquito netting stretched across the mouth of the tent to look a...
- Steve Sarley: Pure joy to pass along the family outdoors traditionAs I write this article, it is Father’s Day. My wife, Joyce, and I are proud to acknowledge that we have three wonderful adult children, a daughter-in-law and...
- Dan Ladd: Remembering New York’s Hadlock Dam failure 20 years laterThe very first article I had published in New York Outdoor News was during the summer of 2005, the paper’s first year. It was a news story about the dam breac...
- PFOS concerns create new health guidelines for eating Michigan’s fishMichigan health officials issued nearly 1,000 new or updated Eat Safe Fish guidelines for 2025, driven by samples from dozens of new waterbodies and revised thr...
- Michigan’s statewide fishing report on June 27, 2025Weather put damper on fishing; Hex hatch is on. Here’s a look at the Michigan fishing report across the state on June 27, 2025. The post Michigan’s statewid...
- High school student earns 20th Maryland Master Angler awardNathan Choinski, of Churchville, has earned a Master Angler Milestone Award under the Maryland Department of Natural Resources’ FishMaryland program. Choinski...
- Pennsylvania Mixed Bag: West Falls Access to be temporarily limited to carry-in, unpowered boat useThe Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission recently announced that the West Falls Access, which provides fishing and boating access to the North Branch Susquehanna...
- Dan Small Outdoors Radio: Show 2026On this week’s show, Lake Michigan charter captain Dumper Dan Welsch reports mixed-bag catches of big lake trout, steelhead and chinooks topping 25 pounds off...
- Centre County kayaker drowns in Pennsylvania’s Youghiogheny RiverA Centre County man died while kayaking with friends on the Youghiogheny River at Ohiopyle State Park in Fayette County, Pa., June 13. Michael Barney, 43, of St...
- Delaware is named Pennsylvania’s River of the Year for 2025The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources recently joined the Pennsylvania Organization for Waterways and Rivers to celebrate the Delaware River...
- Iowa’s statewide fishing report on June 27, 2025Here’s a look at the Iowa fishing report from across the state on June 27, 2025. The post Iowa’s statewide fishing report on June 27, 2025 appeared first on...