Known to some as the “Freshwater Everest,” if you want to explore this mountain, you don’t go up, you go down. In the middle of Lake Superior, near the boundary between Canadian and U.S. waters, sits ...

The North Dakota Game and Fish Department’s 78th annual spring breeding duck survey conducted in May showed an index of about 2.66 million birds, down from 2.9 million in 2024 and 3.4 million in 2023.

Michigan’s proposed hunting and fishing license fee increase appears to be, if not dead in the water, on serious life support. While the Senate version of a fee increase bill is still breathing, the ...

Opening weekend of the 2025 Minnesota duck season had a little bit of everything for the state’s roughly 50,000 waterfowl hunters. Lots of blue sky. Unseasonably warm morning weather that turned into ...

After 12 years and more than 200 columns, I’m hanging up my hat as a columnist for Outdoor News in Minnesota. It’s been a great run, but it’s simply time for a change. Change has been at the heart of ...

Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Senior Forester Adam Zirbel died Sept. 22 after being struck by lightning in the Kettle Moraine State Forest Northern Unit east of Kewaskum. Zirbel ...

I create a file on my desktop for each of the 26 issues of Wisconsin Outdoor News every year. All of those files are tucked inside my main “Issues Folder.” Within each folder I’ve created more folders ...

So, just when did the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) printed 2025 hunting regulations pamphlets reach the hunting public? That was a question that Jamie Cleaver, a Wisconsin Outdoor ...

Exceptions for Wisconsin landowners hunting rabbits and squirrels on their property are not always well understood or are often overlooked. In part, the hunting regulations for the fall of 2024 and ...