PATRICK DURKIN OUTDOORS

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...

If tom turkeys had any respect for artists or knowledge of their work, they wouldn’t let hunters sit idly against giant oaks, admiring th...

Two weeks and six days after Wisconsin’s conservation community filled out a record 64,943 online surveys during the annual fish and wild...

A record-smashing 64,943 conservation voters weighed in online April 13-16 during the statewide spring fish and wildlife hearings, and ro...

Those who find little or no pleasure in gardening often focus their nurturing instincts on trees, shrubs and other longer-lived plants, f...

Everyone loves the bald eagle’s good-looks, piercing eyes and merciless temperament, but few sports teams claim the big raptor’s name. Wh...

Sixteen months have passed since Gov.-elect Tony Evers chose “the tree guy,” Preston Cole, to run the Wisconsin Department of Natural Res...

Two 1948 books delivered dire warnings and “unleavened gloom” about Earth’s environmental future, and initially outsold Aldo Leopold’s po...

One year ago Wisconsin allowed citizens to participate online in its tradition-bound fish and wildlife hearings for the first time in the...

SODA SPRINGS, Idaho — When last I saw “Dreadlocks Dave” he was heading up the mountainside behind me Sept. 14, pausing once to pick his p...

SODA SPRINGS, Idaho – After bowhunting elk in Idaho’s Caribou-Targhee National Forest for 13 years, I often felt spoiled when realizing I...

I know what Wisconsin deer hunters are thinking: We don’t need March Madness, Major League baseball, or the National Basketball Associati...

Until COVID-19 triggered advisories to claim 6 feet of personal space whenever leaving home, I just assumed closer versions of “social-di...

After tossing pruned cherry limbs and winter’s snow-felled pine boughs onto our burn pile, I paused to inspect the bowhunting targets on ...