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- Tom Bahti: Hunting camps are special places shared with special peopleHunting camps are all different, but they are also all the same. They are places where the adventures begin, and that life-long love affair with hunting and the...
- Father’s Day gift guide for the outdoors dad who thought he had everythingKeep Dad safe when he’s entering or leaving the boat with Ezee Step’s sturdy and safe step system along with a grab pole that makes even launching solo a br...
- Here are the best ways to dodge danger in snake countryFour of us were heading to the spot where prairie dogs had built a hefty community and the landowner needed them thinned. Halfway there, we heard the telltale s...
- Illinois high school bass fishing finals set for Lake Shelbyville debutAn all-time high of 329 teams entered the Illinois High School Association’s state bass fishing series this year – a year of big change for the ground-break...
- Bob Gwizdz: The secret to catching big trout? Just keep fishingI’ve been trying to come up with an approach to trout fishing the past few years that maximizes the opportunity to catch big fish. I’ve considered about eve...
- Wisconsin Wildlife Federation honors George Meyer for his advocacy of threatened greater prairie chickensGeorge Meyer might be retired, but he’s not tired. Well, at least not too tired after 50 years of working conservation causes to challenge what conservation g...
- Jeffrey Frischkorn: Getting bullish over bullheadsNature is loaded with not-quite eureka moments, little items of common things that most of us let simply pass by our view as uninteresting. That is, of course, ...
- Backyard and Beyond: Bald eagle anticsEagles can be thieves, sometimes stealing the hard-earned catch of other birds, like osprey, ducks, even other bald eagles. Linda Rappel and her husband like to...
- Patrick Durkin: Wisconsin’s spring hearings voters OK April trout openerWisconsin could move its traditional trout opener from early May to early April next year, based on a landslide 63-37 percentage vote during mid-April’s annua...
- Spring turkey harvest in Illinois hits record levels for second straight yearIllinois DNR Wild Turkey Project Manager Luke Garver gave himself plenty of wiggle room this winter when sharing his vague forecast for the spring hunting seaso...
- Illinois’ statewide fishing report on May 23, 2025Bass starting to hit spring cycle, crappies going strong. Here’s a look at the Illinois fishing report from across the state on May 23, 2025. The post Illinoi...
- Wisconsin Mixed Bag: Elk application deadline is May 31Wisconsin’s would-be elk hunters have until Saturday, May 31, to apply for a 2025 elk hunting license. Wisconsin’s expanding elk population has seen an annu...
- Episode 72 — Roy Dust of the New York Crossbow CoalitionLegislation that would expand crossbow use in New York cleared both the Senate and the Assembly ENCON committees recently. To clarify the legislation and talk a...
- Dan Small Outdoors Radio: Show 2021Charter captain Dumper Dan Welsch says the coho bite is still going strong and shares a delicious recipe for grilled salmon. He says Ranieri’s Four of a Kind ...
- 42 years later, these trout habitat ‘tools’ still at work in WisconsinAnglers wading and floating small trout rivers and streams this month may not even notice them, but LUNKERS structures have – and still do – play a key role...