Outdoor News
Earlier this week
- Ask a Fisheries Biologist: The winter life of fisheries professionalsThe job duties of fisheries professionals tend to fascinate anglers. What is not to like about a job in which a workday can be anything from wrangling 100-pound...
- Nature Smart: Why three toes? Meet the black-backed woodpeckerWinter in the northwoods is a special place and time of year. There is just something exceptional and inviting about the absolute silence, stillness, and wildne...
- Backyard and Beyond: Food theft for young eagleHeading recently for open water on a tributary to the Mississippi River, Scott Thiede carried his blind, chair, camera, and some raw poultry to an ice shelf. Th...
- Wisconsin Letters to the Editor: Someone just say no to earlier gun deer season openerReader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Jan. 23, 2026 edition of Wisconsin Outdoor News. The post Wisconsin Letters to the Editor: Someone just ...
- Panfish abundant, but run small, in Wisconsin’s Little Green LakeThe local Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) fisheries team ran a comprehensive survey on Little Green Lake in 2024 and found all populations of al...
- As new ice anglers enter the fold, here’s a primer on proper etiquetteThe conservation officer wasn’t pleased. Nor were the ice anglers who happened by that winter afternoon. The site: a Mississippi River backwater near Wabasha ...
- WI Daily Update: Reserve your spot to view the sharptail grouse mating danceThe reservation period to access blinds for up-close viewing of the remarkable mating dance of the sharptail grouse is now open. Here’s what to know. The post...
- ‘Runaway’ muskies regularly returned to Busse Lake in IllinoisEvery year, muskies slip over the dam on Busse Lake’s southeast corner and drift into the narrow flow of Salt Creek. If no one intervened, many would continue...
- Changing Wisconsin’s Oct. 31 sturgeon spearing tag deadline could increase the cost of licenseMoving the Oct. 31 Lake Winnebago sturgeon spearing license deadline closer to the February season date could end up increasing the cost of the $20 tag by three...
- Busy antler measuring season about to begin in New YorkWith deer season in New York all but over (Long Island runs through Jan. 31) the New York State Big Buck Club is gearing up for what is anticipated to be anothe...
- Metro Area Fishing Report – January 18, 2026 – videoAn update on conditions and what we’re seeing on the ice. The post Metro Area Fishing Report – January 18, 2026 – video appeared first on Outdoo...
Earlier this month
- Steve Griffin: Hunting licenses are not claim checksOne of my best hunting days last fall, many might have considered a failure. I was perched in a ladder stand watching a patch of woods I’d eyed many other day...
- Bane of the understory: Tips for battling buckthornThe United States is vast in geography and varied in climate. Every region struggles with its own distinct invasive or “interfering” species. Yet few plants...
- Dean Bortz: Go ahead, pick the low-hanging fruitThe fall of 2025 afforded me an extended visit to the state of Montana in October and early November for some archery elk hunting in the central part of the sta...
- Bust the brush for bunnies this winter; here’s where to targetRabbit hunting is a rewarding way to spend time with family and friends. Walking and talking back and forth among your party will not spoil a hunt. In fact, it ...