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- Outdoor horoscopes for the week of May 12 to May 18, 2025Aries (March 21 – April 19) You’ll march confidently into the woods this week, only to realize your turkey vest still has last year’s half-melted cough dr...
- Wisconsin Mixed Bag: Gov. Evers names two DATCP board membersGov. Tony Evers announced the reappointment of Cindy Brown and the appointment of Andy Hatch to the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Prot...
- Wisconsin Letters to the Editor: Keep it simple; live sonar is the wrong answer for fishingReader-submitted letters to the editor published in the May 16, 2025, edition of Wisconsin Outdoor News. The post Wisconsin Letters to the Editor: Keep it simpl...
- North Dakota hunter takes record-book moose in velvet with the help of local quilting clubWhen Christian Levitt, of Buffalo, N.D., drew a once-in-a-lifetime bull moose tag in 2022, he understood how special the opportunity was. Nearly 9,000 hunters h...
- Trapping season changes appear to have minimal effect in MinnesotaAfter rolling out regulation changes for trapping bobcats, fishers, and otters this year, it’s been informative for the Minnesota DNR researchers behind the s...
- Deer meeting in Wisconsin’s Waupaca County turns to talks about CWD concernsWhile the Waupaca County’s County Deer Advisory Council (CDAC) met May 1 for three hours to make recommendations for the 2025 deer seasons, much of that time ...
- WI Daily Update: Spraying for spongy moth caterpillars at three state propertiesThe Wisconsin DNR will conduct aerial spraying for spongy moth caterpillars at three state properties this spring. Listen here for the details. The post WI Dail...
- Long-term delegates on Conservation Congress challenged in Wisconsin’s Washburn, Bayfield countyA degree of political backlash or reprisal seems to have crept into the election of Washburn County Conservation Congress delegates during the April 14 spring h...
- New York’s Lake Champlain lake trout holding their own as stocking ends after 2025Are wild lake trout that have become more prevalent in New York’s Lake Champlain better able to escape predation by sea lamprey? Some anglers and fisheries ex...
- MN Daily Update: A drawdown to better duck habitat on Teal LakeA drawdown is underway this spring on Teal Lake in southwest Minnesota’s Jackson County to help boost wildlife habitat. Listen here for the details. The post ...
- Group seeks National Park status for Shawnee Forest in IllinoisA new effort is under way to re-designate the Shawnee National Forest as the “Shawnee National Park and Climate Preserve.” Supporters say this change could ...
- Pymatuning Reservoir is the perfect place for adventure along the Pennsylvania, Ohio borderIt is said that only the stupidest anglers reveal their secret hotspots to other fishermen. I wonder if that is equally true of outdoor writers who not only rev...
- Late-season gobblers can be had, often with a subtle approachThe last two weeks of spring gobbler season can provide tough though rewarding hunting. Many gobblers have been tagged, and the ones that remain may have endure...
- Commentary: Why no DNR wolf estimate in latest monitoring report from Wisconsin?The latest Wisconsin DNR Wolf Monitoring Report, furnished to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, contains no wolf population estimate. Why is the previous wint...
- Light turnout at Dane, Vernon county spring hearings in WisconsinWhat a difference a year makes, as the Dane County Conservation Congress and Wisconsin DNR spring conservation hearing held April 14 drew only 23 attendees. In ...