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- Tyler Frantz: Competing in Scholastic 3-D Archery helps a young Pennsylvania archer growWhen my son, Foster, and I walked into the archery room at Palmyra Sportsmen’s Association in Pennsylvania during a Field Day event a few months ago, we unoff...
- Gear & Gadgets: Be ready for turkey season with Federal HEAVYWEIGHT TSS, and much moreKill gobblers at longer distances than ever before with Federal Premium ® HEAVYWEIGHT ® TSS. The tungsten-alloy shot material’s 18 g/cc density is 56 percen...
- Could lake sturgeon be federally protected? Interested parties from Minnesota await decisionLake sturgeon have become a hot topic in the fisheries world after the Center for Biological Diversity several years ago sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service...
- WI Daily Update: A technique to bring the crappies up…and biteSometimes you have to bring the crappies up a couple feet off the bottom to get them to bite on the ice. Here are the details. The post WI Daily Update: A techn...
- MN Daily Update: A technique to bring the crappies up…and biteSometimes you have to bring the crappies up a couple of feet off the bottom to get them to bite while ice fishing. Here are the details. The post MN Daily Updat...
- Commentary: The status of whitetails in Minnesota, and what our deer herd needsThe MDHA and the status of whitetails in Minnesota: what our deer herd needs The post Commentary: The status of whitetails in Minnesota, and what our deer herd ...
- Streams of Thought: Minnesota’s outdoors world loses a dandy with death of Earl Norris JohnsonAfter a few years on the beat here at Outdoor News, I’d established quite a few friendships with state DNR folks who worked with Minnesota’s fish and wildli...
- An Illinois Deer Classic hollering point: antlers or no antlers?What do we Illinois deer hunters choose to shoot, why do we choose to shoot it – and is there a chance that most of us just wing it and make such decisions on...
- Illinois Landowner of the Year inspired by quail, pheasant hunting as a youthChuck Martin, a lifelong upland bird hunter, conservation advocate and local author, is the DNR Illinois Recreational Access Program’s 2023 Landowner of the Y...
- Cost-share programs (Part 1): Finding what fits you when it comes to wildlife habitat managementIf you’ve ever done a habitat-management project – whether large-scale prairie restoration on land you own or a small timber stand improvement on a buddy’...
- Dave Zeug: Wolves are controversial in Spain, tooThe news article’s first paragraph was blunt. “The ban on wolf hunting is ratcheting up tensions, pitting farmers in the rural north who fear for their live...
- Ice-out surges across Minnesota as prior records begin to fallTo the surprise of few, historical ice-out records continue to fall as early open water progresses northward on Minnesota lakes. It’s the El Niño effect on f...
- Nature Smart: Visiting the Bunting LadyNature is in constant flux. It is how she works, and during the past 40 years of working as a wildlife photographer, I have witnessed change repeatedly. It is a...
- Backyard and Beyond: A heron on hard waterGreat blue herons engage in some “hard-water” fishing, too, as evidenced by the big bird observed by Vern Lemasters. He reports that the heron eventually wa...
- Wisconsin Assembly approves license fee hikes for nonresident hunters, anglersThe Wisconsin Assembly approved a bill Feb. 22 that would raise a variety of hunting, fishing, and trapping license fees for nonresidents to help shrink a defic...