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- Lake Michigan coast focus of Prairie Research Institute researchPrairie Research Institute scientists are conducting a $2.3 million project to support the protection and restoration of part of the Illinois Beach State Park c...
- New York’s 2025 Great Lakes Preview: Lake Erie and it’s tributaries are a year-round fishing bonanzaLake Erie stands tall among the angling community. While it is the smallest of the Great Lakes in total water volume, it’s large number of fish populations he...
- MN Daily Update: Remembering outdoor writer Scott BestulSoutheast Minnesota-based outdoors writer and regular Outdoor News contributor Scott Bestul, age 64, died Saturday morning, April 19. Listen here for more ...
- Uninterested hen leads gobbler to a waiting hunterFrom nearly a half-mile away, I spotted two black dots on a bend in the farm road. I blinked and they were still there, so I raised my binocular and confirmed t...
- WI Daily Update: Remembering outdoor writer Scott BestulSoutheast Minnesota-based outdoors writer and regular Outdoor News contributor Scott Bestul, age 64, died Saturday morning, April 19. Listen here for more about...
- Wisconsin’s Sturgeon Guard back to work with spawning underwaySporting a fluorescent green Sturgeon For Tomorrow vest, Tom Markowski and Mike Schmalzer stood out like sore thumbs as lake sturgeon cruised the Fox River in d...
- Lotteries open for moose, elk hunts in eastern statesBig game hunters annually look to hit the jackpot – and every year a few do. Maybe even someone you know. And this year, it could even be you. Not the Mega Mi...
- Artist Lake: fishing a popular puddle on Long IslandIt’s actually labeled a kettlehole lake, the product of melting chunks of partially buried glacial ice a long, long, long, time ago. There is no inlet or outl...
- New York’s Outdoor CalendarA look at upcoming outdoors-related events from across New York published in the May 2, 2025, edition of Outdoor News. The post New York’s Outdoor Calendar ap...
- New York Cuffs & Collars: Don’t trespass to catch your troutNew York cuffs and collars are field reports from DEC Officers. These reports are from the May 2, 2025, edition of Outdoor News. The post New York Cuffs & Colla...
- New York’s 2025 Great Lakes Preview: Let’s keep the Great Lakes ‘great’For the most part, we are coming off a stellar year in 2024 on both of New York’s Great Lakes – Erie and Ontario. What happens in 2025 and beyond is anyoneâ...
- New York’s annual I BIRD Challenge returnsAlbany — New York’s annual I BIRD Challenge is underway. The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation began the program for birders of all ag...
- New Southwick report shows hunters, anglers spend billionsRecent reports from the American Sportfishing Association and the Sportsmen’s Alliance Foundation show that hunting, target shooting and recreational fishing ...
- Wildfires, prescribed burns keep New York fire crews hoppingNew York State Forest Rangers and Fish and Wildlife staff have had a busy spring when it comes to woodland fires. When Forest Rangers are not fighting unintenti...
- New York Mixed Bag: DEC holding Great Lakes sub-basin work group meetings April 29 – May 6DEC is poised to host a series of Great Lakes Action Agenda Sub-Basin Work Group Meetings in late April and early May. The Great Lakes Program invites the publi...