PATRICK DURKIN OUTDOORS

SODA SPRINGS, Idaho — Nearly a week had passed since the last time I heard a bull elk bugling within shouting distance of where I was sta...

Lewis and Clark had their famous voyage of discovery, but I’m content with more modest findings one week into my annual trip to bowhunt e...

Our elk camp’s roster and team portrait is changing for the ninth time since I first drove my 1999 Ford F-250 to Idaho’s Targhee-Caribou ...

Wisconsin recorded its 19th boating-related fatality of 2020 a full two weeks before Labor Day weekend, nearly tripling its death toll fr...

Coincidence or not, two heroic veterans who fought in wars 65 years apart made their homes in the quietude of northeastern Wisconsin afte...

(Note: This column was originally published in 2008.) While inspecting my raspberry patch for damage done by browsing deer, I noticed som...

At least one thing’s increasingly clear as the DNR ends Phase 1 of its long-term study of disease and predator impacts on southwestern Wi...

Even before President Trump signed the Great American Outdoors Act into law Aug. 4, hunters, anglers and other conservationists hailed it...

Wisconsin’s Natural Resources Board partially rescinded its earlier decision to slash antlerless deer quotas in 11 northern counties when...

Wisconsin’s Natural Resources Board agreed Thursday (July 23) to convene a special meeting to reconsider cuts it made in June to antlerle...

A flying dark blur caught my eye as I pulled the first arrow from the backyard deer target earlier this summer. I scanned the trees in th...

Three former members of Wisconsin’s Natural Resources Board sent a protest letter Thursday to the current Board, urging they rescind a co...

Do you enjoy outdoor recreation near home and far away? And do you think the energy industry should compensate everyday Americans for nat...

Wisconsin’s Natural Resources Board staged an embarrassing goat rope during its monthly meeting June 24 when rejecting antlerless deer qu...

Hunters and anglers can instantly identify posers just by how they grip a spinning rod or shoulder a shotgun. Likewise, good comedians kn...

All good fishing holes from our youth have their secrets and charms, and we revisit them often, if only in our memories. Lakes Mendota an...

My dad was never much of a hunter or fisherman, but that didn’t stop him from raising me to hunt and fish. Dad found more fun and satisfa...

The Natural Resources Board once again ignored recommendations from a citizen-focused advisory team by voting 5-2 at its May 27 meeting t...

Dawn’s gray light blurred the small monuments marking my Aunt Mona and Uncle Terry’s buried ashes on the hillside above their former home...

Let’s hope Wisconsin’s seven-citizen Natural Resources Board realizes its folly after the hunting community trounced the Board’s deer-sea...