PATRICK DURKIN OUTDOORS

Hunters, anglers and other outdoor recreationists who attend Wisconsin’s spring conservation hearings April 8 can vote in person for the...

More females and crossbow hunters joined Wisconsin’s deer hunting’s ranks the past decade, but they didn’t halt the state’s nearly...

When the humorist Dave Barry turned 50 in 1998, he compiled a list of things that took him a half-century to learn. One of his insights...

Fur trappers can seem uneasy and vulnerable, even though they’re the most skilled, regulated and well-rounded outdoors-folks you’ll find...

Wisconsin biologists expect to soon complete the nation’s first and most-advanced system for estimating the past, current and future...

A tick bite last summer confined Al Hofacker to a Green Bay hospital for over two months, spoiled his hunting seasons once home, and...

Whether you fish, hunt, hike or birdwatch on one of Wisconsin’s 200-plus fish and wildlife areas, you’ll benefit even more if you “adopt”...

Several anniversaries come to mind as we approach “Leopold Week,” the annual celebration of legendary conservationist Aldo Leopold and...

When crappies bite too lightly to see or feel with your best icefishing rod, you assume they’re spurning your bait as they rise, retreat...

Wisconsin’s deer-baiting violators should get credit for at least one thing: They work consistently hard disregarding the state’s baiting...

When folks say politicians and the Department of Natural Resources “don’t listen to us” about deer, give them a reminder or three,...

We buried Tom Heberlein on Jan. 12, shoveling fast to fill his grave with the forest’s red dirt before winter’s first blizzard howled...

Professor Tom Heberlein was forever vigilant about his deer camp’s buckpole, even though it hung empty more often than heavy each...

Whether you look under the table, beneath the bed or behind the barn, you’ll find few men who’ve introduced more people to hunting than...

Let’s hope the American Society of Mammalogists is tracking efforts by the American Ornithological Society to rename all birds that honor...

Baiting and feeding deer is illegal in 59 of Wisconsin’s 72 counties, so wildlife professor Scott Craven thought it odd Dec. 7 to see...

You might assume Wisconsin hunters were happy they shot a deer every other second during November’s nine-day gun season. Pfft! You’re...

The books piled atop my dresser fight silent battles for my attention, with some struggling for years to deliver my bedtime education and...

A necropsy on the cougar killed in mid-November by a bowhunter in Wisconsin’s Buffalo County found the cat was healthy, well fed and...

The Welke family’s deer camp moved from the scrub oaks of northern Marinette County to the stately oaks of northcentral Crawford County...