PATRICK DURKIN OUTDOORS

It’s time Wisconsin’s wolf-haters and wolf-huggers lower their picket signs, lay down their smartphones and lock themselves into a padded...

Jess and Matt Weber will never know if it was the squirrel dumplings, wild-turkey soup or a flurry of midafternoon trail-cam photos that...

When hunting or fishing new areas, I need about three years of scouting, studying and preying to learn enough to succeed consistently.   ...

CASCADE, Idaho — A small fleet of fishing boats ranging from one-person kayaks to low-slung, rocket-propelled bass boats squeezed me from...

One can’t help but smirk each autumn when the Department of Natural Resources issues its reminders and suggestions to hunters preparing...

The iPhone’s screen read “3:05” a.m. after I set the 12th bag of elk meat beside the others.    Then I leaned backward, arms on hips,...

I don’t know the secret to creating a hunter or angler, but a key to failing either goal is a mother who won’t drive her kids to the...

During her 2011-2017 stint as Wisconsin DNR secretary, Cathy Stepp often preached that the agency must operate more like a private-sector...

Bowhunting historian Bill McCrary says it’s accurate to call Racine’s Roy I. Case  (1888-1986) the father of Wisconsin bowhunting and...

During summer fishing trips to Canada in the 1990s, my wife never assumed we would catch enough before noon to feed our three daughters...

Tom Heberlein’s ghost still lingers when guests enter the Old Tamarack Lodge, the professor’s aging shack in central Ashland County....

Few argue the bluegill would make a worthier state fish than the muskellunge, Wisconsin’s longtime holder of that title. Bluegills, after...

For nearly 40 years I’ve tried to shower equal attention and affection on my three daughters, and for the past decade I’ve expanded those...

Six years after Wisconsin policymakers panicked over declines in the ruffed-grouse population, the state’s “thunder chickens” climbed...

A Jefferson County judge’s recent ruling that forbids boaters, anglers and other water-borne recreationists from entering flooded private...

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources confirmed CWD in white-tailed deer in two more counties in April—Pierce and Waushara—which...

Wisconsin set a tragic record in 2023 when 28 people died while enjoying the state’s abundant lakes and rivers by fishing, hunting,...

Wisconsin’s turkey hunters broke the 50-K harvest mark for the first time in 15 years when the spring season ended May 28 with a...

Those of us with long memories perked up in April when voters at Wisconsin’s annual conservation hearings supported registering...

Group-hunting has been legal during Wisconsin’s gun deer seasons since the mid-1980s, but four decades later it remains a bridge too far...