PATRICK DURKIN OUTDOORS

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...

Nature’s surprises often flip routine hunts into lifetime memories. Sometimes you smile, wondering why a mallard hen would expose her...

Who needs dandelions, chirping robins and blooming lilacs to remind us it’s spring when we receive daily public-service warnings each May...

Whether watching your birdfeeders through a living-room window or calling to wild turkeys from a camouflaged blind, you seldom wait long...

Wakeboats struck another tsunami of opposition during Wisconsin’s statewide conservation hearings in mid-April, with over 70% of voters...

Lake sturgeon were having yet another of the species’ moments in late April. First, they made the morning headlines April 22 by not...

My cousin Peggy greeted our group of turkey hunters as we returned to her farm’s driveway April 12 after our prep work for Wisconsin’s...

Three researchers from Cornell University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison think the federal government should take the lead on...

The first Wisconsin game warden killed by gunfire didn’t die protecting deer, bears, wolves, walleyes or waterfowl. No, Einar P. Johnson,...