Outdoor News
Last year
- The story of the heaviest bear taken during Pennsylvania’s 2025 seasonNate Miller, a 38-year-old construction worker from Beaver County, had the hunt of a lifetime on the opening day of Pennsylvania’s regular firearms bear seaso...
- Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission finishes its slate of winter trout stocking on iceThe Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission stocked more than 1,000 rainbow trout at Locust Lake State Park in Schuylkill County Dec. 16 in one of its final trout s...
- Pennsylvania Mixed Bag: Two-day regulated deer hunt at Presque Isle State ParkSixty-two hunters participated in a regulated hunt in Presque Isle State Park and harvested 14 antlerless deer and two bucks over a two-day special hunt. The po...
- Three in running for Pennsylvania’s River of the Year designationThree waterways are in the running for Pennsylvania 2026 River of the Year, and the public gets to choose which will win. The Conestoga River, Chillisquaque Cre...
- Pennsylvania Letters to the Editor: Merger of agencies a no-brainerReader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Jan. 2, 2026 edition of Pennsylvania Outdoor News. The post Pennsylvania Letters to the Editor: Merger o...
- MN Daily Update: No need to drill a lot of holes this ice-fishing seasonTim Lesmeister says he no longer drills a huge amount of holes when he’s ice fishing. Just a couple do the trick. He explains why. The post MN Daily Update: N...
- Whitetails are survival machines in winter; here’s how they do itWhile the Upper Midwest has experienced some bouts of mild weather the past few weeks, it’s undeniable that winter is here. We’ve gone through a few blizzar...
- Record catfish, massive ice storm highlight Michigan’s 2025 outdoorsThere was no shortage of eye-popping news stories on the pages of Michigan Outdoor News last year. From confirming breeding cougars in the Upper Peninsula to a ...
- What to know if heading south for winter anglingEvery year our family goes down to Florida for a trip, and I always make sure we are on a canal, beach or some place that gives my crew an opportunity to fish. ...
- WI Daily Update: No need to drill a lot of holes this ice-fishing seasonTim Lesmeister says he no longer drills a huge amount of holes when he’s ice fishing. Just a couple do the trick. He explains why. The post WI Daily Update: N...
- Steve Piatt: The stay-at-home hunterIt is Saturday, Dec. 6, 7:15 a.m., the second Saturday of Pennsylvania’s firearms deer season. My wife, Paula, has been settled into her tree stand for the pa...
- Les Winkeler: It’s been a good year of long walks, talks with MiloAlthough my wife and I are approaching the age where buying green bananas is considered speculative, we decided to bring a puppy into our home in late summer of...
- Spring tree planting tips to up your odds of successA reforestation guide from the USDA and Green Infrastructure Center says more trees lead to less crime, better health, lower utility costs, less flooding, less ...
- Oak Duke: A great hunt during the heart of the whitetail rutIt’s bound to happen. Viewed from a big pine tree. Wind and thermal perfect, in my face, overlooking an active licking branch scrape in a funnel above an impe...
- Planting trees this spring? Here’s how to up your odds of success in WisconsinThere are somewhere around 11.5 billion live trees in Wisconsin. That number should stay robust if the DNR and private citizens continue a longstanding history ...