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Earlier this week
- Michigan’s statewide fishing and hunting report on Dec. 16, 2024With inconsistent ice, fishing stalls across most of state. A look at the Michigan fishing and hunting report on Dec. 16, 2024. The post Michigan’s statewide ...
- Tim Spielman: In the dark, windy woods, the death of a buck is a tough experience to witnessOn Oct. 9, my black Lab was the first to make the discovery. Going about her morning-relief rituals, she began an incessant barking – not the usual hey-neighb...
- MN Daily Update: CWD cases continue to climb this yearThere’s some bad news on the CWD front in Minnesota as the number of positive cases in 2024 may double the number of cases from a year ago. Here are more deta...
- WI Daily Update: Comment on proposed new deer management unit ruleThe Wisconsin DNR is looking for public comments on a proposed new deer management unit rule. Listen here for the details. The post WI Daily Update: Comment on ...
- Lauren Dean: Here’s how I became an Illinois hunterLauren Dean is the newest addition to DNR and the Illinois Natural History Survey’s Learn to Hunt team. She grew up in Maryland before moving to New Orleans, ...
Earlier this month
- 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 ...