A major wastewater discharge from the Great Lakes Cheese plant in August that caused a widespread fish kill in Ischua Creek was seemingly the worst since the facility began operations in late 2024.

As attention turns more and more toward non-toxic ammunition, the Wisconsin Natural Resources Board (NRB) learned more about a new ad hoc inter-agency team encouraging hunters to reduce exposure to ...

Beavers are making a comeback in Michigan. Once extirpated from the southern Lower Peninsula, the toothy critters are showing up in places such as Ann Arbor and even the Detroit River. At one time ...

My friend and I have been opening the duck season on a stretch of a small river the past five years, and we didn’t expect anything different. But when we arrived at the oxbow in the river, there were ...

Opening day of pheasant hunting’s celebratory mood turned as dark as an Edgar Allan Poe poem not long after the season’s first shot shells were chambered. Cinematically, it had the aura of a ...

Brad Heidel, the new executive director of Wisconsin Waterfowl Association (WWA), is excited to carry on the momentum retired WWA Executive Director Bruce Ross brought to the group during his ...

When I finally grow up I hope I can become a successful elk hunter just like Patrick Durkin and Christine Thomas. As it stands right now, after – what? – 13 years of trying I still haven’t shot an elk ...

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 ...

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.

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.

Most people rarely see a snapping turtle in the wild. The most common time we see them is when we’re driving around in the early summer and we encounter an adult female moving to lay its eggs near 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 ...