PATRICK DURKIN OUTDOORS

Nearly a minute had passed since the longbeard strutted in to model and posture for our hen decoy. And there the gobbler stood, flexing...

I gave up golfing and skiing this past week, only 39 years after I last golfed and 45 years after I last skied. Maybe I’m slow to catch...

Every few years I stumble across an eastern hognose snake while hunting turkeys or morel mushrooms. And every time I respond much the...

The more you fish from boats, the more likely you’ll consign rods, reels, wristwatches, smartphones, boat anchors or entire tackle boxes...

If you hear folks discussing Wisconsin’s gray wolves, try not to laugh when someone says, “I think we can all agree that …” No. When...

One year after a record 64,943 people participated online in Wisconsin’s 2020 spring conservation hearings, one-fifth that number took...

Tony Peterson and Eric Christensen are veteran outdoors photographers who know the risks of leaving home without their cameras. Odds are,...

State-employed biologists often suffer insomnia and facial tics caused by cranky hunters demanding more deer and bigger bucks. But before...

No one enshrined in the Wisconsin Conservation Hall of Fame gets fitted for a gold jacket with an iconic breast crest to wear for the...

Unprecedented job vacancies in the Department of Natural Resources are hobbling Wisconsin’s fisheries and wildlife programs, especially...

Folks who debate their eating preferences for crappies, bluegills, walleyes, yellow perch and northern pike must be rich or living...

One never knows what will set off the three silver-haired drama divas on Wisconsin’s Natural Resources Board, the seven-citizen,...

Someday I hope to pit Nach Peerenboom of De Pere against Tyler Florczak of Chetek to determine who has the best hunting and fishing...

No one monitoring Wisconsin’s wolf-management melodramas the past 25 years was shocked Feb. 24-25 as the Department of Natural Resources...

If Dan Lindal didn’t know better he might think every ice-angler goes home grinning with a heaping bag of whitefish reeled up from Green...

Skye Goode of rural Neillsville, Wisconsin, paused and weighed her answer, and then asked her own question: “Will you think I’m arrogant...

One can’t help but admire how hard Wisconsin lawmakers and the Natural Resources Board worked in January to force the DNR to quickly...

ITHACA, Wisconsin – Jonathan Braun of Marshall caught on quickly to the hazards of hunting with an outdoor writer. In only our second...

Wisconsin lawmakers are again squabbling to craft a state budget, which means hunters, hikers, anglers, trappers and other outdoorsy...

Brandon Butler drove 3½ hours on Jan. 4 to see what remained of his hunting/fishing cabin. He then watched the still-flickering flames...