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- Nature Smart: The hunt for a perfect shot at a whitetail… with a cameraI was walking through the woods, moving slowly, making sure not to step on a stick or twig that might snap and make a loud noise. Thankfully, it had rained earl...
- Minnesota reader stories: The ‘perfect double’ makes for a goose hunt to rememberIt had been three weeks since the start of Minnesota’s regular duck-season opener, and it was another day of blue skies, no wind, and nearly 80 degrees. Not e...
- New York Reader Stories: Too cold for geese to fly? Time to deer huntIt was so cold, the geese would not fly. My hunting partner, Steve, and I had been in our ground blinds since first light, waiting for the resident Canada geese...
- Illinois Natural History Survey water quality technician keeps eye on zooplankton, fishRachel Prostko is a water quality technician at the Illinois Natural History Survey. With an undergraduate degree in marine biology, biology, and history from t...
- When is fur at its prime? Here’s a guide for Illinois, other Midwestern statesI started the trapping season on Nov. 10 in a deer camp in western Illinois. I start every season there because I have to get out before the start of the deer g...
- There’s beauty in December flushes of ruffed grouseThere’s much focus on October ruffed grouse hunting, which makes sense. The season is just kicking off, the woods are pleasant, and the birds are scattered ac...
- Iowa’s statewide fishing report on Dec. 13, 2024A look at the Iowa fishing report from across the state on Dec. 13, 2024. The post Iowa’s statewide fishing report on Dec. 13, 2024 appeared first on Outdoor ...
- ‘Wild places are worth fighting for’: Concern grows for receding South Dakota wetlandsJohn Cooper, 80 years old and with a new set of knees, still rises before the sun, dons waders, sets up decoys and tries to call in ducks. “I love waterfowl h...
- Trophy buck, known by local hunters as ‘King Louie,’ taken illegally in New YorkA buck of legendary clout, known to hunters within the Fonda/Johnstown locale in Fulton and Montgomery counties in New York as “King Louie,” was poached dur...
- So you want to be an ice angler? Here’s how to get startedHe’d occasionally drag me onto a southern Minnesota lake when I was a kid growing up in Belle Plaine and Shakopee, but in most years, he’d make one trip to ...
- Jeremiah Haas: Patience pays off for ‘like-minded’ Illinois hunters in 2024Long-time readers may remember a deer I named “Wrapped 10.” After several years of cat-and-mouse with him, he was finally harvested on the farm. For those w...
- WI Daily Update: Mr. Walleye details his setup for getting on a good ice biteFreshwater Fishing Hall of Famer Gary Roach details his setup that catches him lots of fish during the ice-fishing season. The post WI Daily Update: Mr. Walleye...
- Ohio cracks down on illegal dumping with grants through ‘Shine a Light on Dumpers’ initiativeBuilding on the success of the “Shine a Light on Dumpers” initiative, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost is expanding the campaign to include funding for commu...
- Optimism around effort to return quail to PennsylvaniaThe Pennsylvania Game Commission is encouraged by the early results of a long-term mission to reintroduce bobwhite quail, a native species that disappeared from...
- Targeting these nontraditional species through the hard water can be fantastic funThey are the seemingly odd types you might have ignored in high school. They’re a little different. Under-appreciated. A bit “off” by conventional standar...