PATRICK DURKIN OUTDOORS

My humble hunting goal for the spring 2022 turkey season was to be a helpful, competent, memorable guide for three special people. Pfft!...

Here’s a book every Wisconsin hunter, birder, trapper and all-around history-loving conservationist should own: “Wildlife in Early...

The turkey’s gobble was just distant enough to doubt, obscured as it was by light winds swishing through red-pine boughs overhead. Tom...

Details that look trivial to casual observers reveal the essentials to experts and specialists. In fact, nothing can damn a hunting or...

Wisconsin’s outdoor community favored a 350-wolf population goal, and stricter safeguards for hunter education and drinking water when...

A self-righteous fisherman once wrote that fishing is more sporting than hunting because the line creates a fragile, spiritual link...

Redpolls flocked to Ryan Brady this winter like, well, choose your trite analogy: moths to light, bears to honey or pigeons to bread...

A crossbow hunter who nearly died in early January after getting gored by a wounded buck he was tracking has paid $343.50 in fines for...

This year’s three inductees to the Wisconsin Conservation Hall of Fame impressed friend and foe alike by eagerly and respectfully working...

Those serving on Wisconsin’s seven-member Natural Resources Board enjoy the perk of submitting questions for citizen review at the...

After sliding my old golf clubs into the truck’s back seat with my ancient downhill skis last spring, I silently thanked them for their...

CASCADE, Idaho — Pioneers gave up home and family to head west for new lives and fertile land in the 1800s. Chris and Jessie Weber, both...

Remember those 13 hunting and fishing bills unveiled Oct. 13 at the Capitol with hoopla, hollow talk and countless selfies as part of the...

At 6-foot-4 and a lean 240 pounds, Joe Swanson fits the profile of a college football tight end. Swanson, a 22-year-old senior at the...

Skeptics question whether ice anglers really need to drill a score of holes before bouncing between them like a trick-or-treater, their...

The caller wasn’t disguising his irritation for airboats, noise pollution, fishing guides, fishing tournaments, underwater cameras,...

Reprinted from Aug. 19, 2018 Wildlife agencies are forever printing brochures, updating websites and cranking out press releases to...

If a meteor were to strike Earth tomorrow, and a coyote and Greg Kazmierski were the only survivors to crawl from the rubble, who would...

It’s hard to look at Wisconsin’s 2021 deer season results and not picture some old guy trying to squeeze into his long-forsaken Army...

Wisconsin this month fortified its standing as the capital of the world for chronic wasting disease by verifying the plague in wild deer...