He lived around Harrisburg in downstate Pennsylvania. Worked at the Nestle’s water plant in that area. That’s about all I knew about him. Well, that’s not entirely correct.

What a difference a year makes, as the Dane County Conservation Congress and Wisconsin DNR spring conservation hearing held April 14 drew only 23 attendees. In 2024 the event, also held at the ...

Even if a hunter, fisherman, or trapper is in violation of one or more rules and a citation is likely, a little cooperation and congeniality may help the situation and lessen the sting. Such was the ...

All the twists and turns and trips and tricks navigated by Tammy Miller over her nearly three decades with the DNR were the result of a particular skill learned by rural small-town farm kids across ...

For a week in early April, Ohio’s Sandusky River had hardly lived up to its designation as “state scenic,” boiling brown and angry and flooding bankside lowlands. Four and a quarter inches of rain or ...

North Dakota’s spring light goose conservation order opens Feb. 15 and continues through May 11. Residents must have a 2024-25 (valid through March 31) or 2025-26 (required April 1) combination ...

After a quick check with our reporters who attended CDAC meetings, CDAC members and DNR personnel, it sounds as though the proposal for new numbered deer units – switching from county units to units ...

While the calendar is barely past spring, it is not too soon to plan your food plot strategy for fall. In the planning stages myself, I reached out to a handful of experts I trust for sound advice. My ...

Joe Rist, owner of Trout Town Flies, in Roscoe, in the Catskills is the 2025 New York Outdoors News Person of the Year. The accolades and anecdotes shared by Rist’s colleagues are not just stories of ...

You’ll insist on using the same fishing lure that worked in 1998. This week, you catch fish not because of it, but in spite of it. Nature respects stubbornness – sometimes. This week, your indecision ...

A passion for the outdoors runs deep in the Bontekoe family. With the help of a well-worn Mossberg bolt-action .410 shotgun passed down through four generations to 8-year-old Carter Bontekoe, that ...

When I started my career as a DNR fisheries management biologist in northern Michigan in the 1970s, there were fewer muskie waters available. Also, the overall size structure of muskies in them was ...