Outdoor News
Earlier this year
- Wisconsin’s Outdoor CalendarA look at upcoming outdoors-related events from across Wisconsin published in the April 18, 2025, edition of Outdoor News. The post Wisconsin’s Outdoor Calend...
- Patrick Durkin: Wisconsin’s Conservation Congress struggles, but no worse than state legislatureA good friend gets a little testy whenever he starts talking about Wisconsin’s annual spring conservation hearings. Once he gets rolling, he starts blowing sn...
- Wisconsin Letters to the Editor: Yorkie disappears on heels of owner during Wabasso walkReader-submitted letters to the editor published in the April 18, 2025, edition of Wisconsin Outdoor News. The post Wisconsin Letters to the Editor: Yorkie disa...
- Fishing for springtime panfish can be super productive with the right planThere’s no other season in fishing that rewards scouting, timing, and location knowledge as does spring. When it comes to chasing panfish – especially crapp...
- Marcy West won’t seek second term on Wisconsin Natural Resources BoardMarcy West, Wisconsin Natural Resources Board (NRB) member from Vernon County, announced at the board’s April 9 meeting that she is ending her position on the...
- Youth hunters ready to jump-start New York’s spring gobbler seasonNew York’s annual youth turkey hunting weekend is coming up April 26-27, providing the opportunity for junior hunters – those ages 12-15 – to go afield wi...
- Steve Griffin: Michigan trout anglers get a fresh start on Opening DayMichigan trout season offers a real opening, going from no fishing to plenty of it. And, it just gets better and better. We like fresh starts. The first day of ...
- Steve Pollick: A rookie’s first prairie burn is a learning experience that impressesPrairie fires are serious business. All you have to do to understand that statement is volunteer to tote and deploy a drip-torch – a heavy metal canister with...
- Wisconsin’s Hunter Nation meeting sees strong turnout to discuss wolf delisting, crane huntMore than 100 sportsmen braved a snow and ice storm late Sunday, March 30, to attend a Hunter Nation meeting in Ashland, Wis., where issues ranging from wolf ma...
- WI Daily Update: Good news for anglers heading to CanadaAmerican anglers and other travelers into Canada who were fretting potential delays and added costs upon reaching border crossings can rest easier, at least for...
- MN Daily Update: Good news for anglers heading to CanadaAmerican anglers and other travelers into Canada who were fretting potential delays and added costs upon reaching border crossings can rest easier, at least for...
- Illinois DNR’s Deer Report gives insight into 2024-25 seasonAn incredible 30% of deer harvested during 2024-25 firearms seasons were taken with rifles, a 10% increase over 2023-24 – the first season rifle hunting was l...
- Taking kids turkey hunting can be a blast, but there’s ways to do it rightIt wasn’t long ago when the best way to introduce youngsters to hunting youngsters to hunting involved a .22 rifle and some squirrels. Or maybe a single-shot ...
- Mike Schoonveld: Are fish guts food, fertilizer, or garbage when a fish house isn’t available?My first fishing trip of the season was successful. The cohos were in southern Lake Michigan, right on schedule, and my friend and I caught our limits plus a bo...
- Reader Stories: Being able to start a fire critical if you get lostYears ago, I had a book of outdoor stories by Ted Trueblood. He wrote for various outdoor magazines. In that book were two stories that stuck with me: The first...