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 ...

I’m a forward-thinking sportsman, so I’m always looking forward to an upcoming hunting season. That’s especially true this year since I’m getting an early start by accompanying a buddy on his ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Award-winning outdoors scribe Hal Herring hails from Augusta, Mont., which allows him to use the tagline “Writing from the edge of the Bob Marshall Wilderness.” Originally from north Alabama, Herring ...

Once upon a time, there was a poor mountaineer named Jed. One day he was out shooting at some food, he obviously missed, and a thick, black crude oil came bubbling up where his bullet hit the ground.