Patrick Durkin
Wisconsin’s Perch Obsession Goes Beyond the Border
Folks who debate their eating preferences for crappies, bluegills, walleyes, yellow perch and northern pike must be rich or living...
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Patrick Durkin
- Mar 13, 2021
- 4 min
Remind Mr. Chairman that He Serves Wisconsin’s Public
One never knows what will set off the three silver-haired drama divas on Wisconsin’s Natural Resources Board, the seven-citizen,...
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Patrick Durkin
- Mar 5, 2021
- 4 min
Lake Chetek Surrenders a Big Late-Season Northern Pike
Someday I hope to pit Nach Peerenboom of De Pere against Tyler Florczak of Chetek to determine who has the best hunting and fishing...
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Patrick Durkin
- Mar 1, 2021
- 5 min
Wisconsin’s Wolf Overharvest was Predictable, Preventable
No one monitoring Wisconsin’s wolf-management melodramas the past 25 years was shocked Feb. 24-25 as the Department of Natural Resources...
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Patrick Durkin
- Feb 20, 2021
- 4 min
Green Bay’s Whitefish Boost Fun and Business
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...
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Patrick Durkin
- Feb 13, 2021
- 4 min
Skye Goode Shares Her Love of Wisconsin Furs, Trapping
Skye Goode of rural Neillsville, Wisconsin, paused and weighed her answer, and then asked her own question: “Will you think I’m arrogant...
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Patrick Durkin
- Feb 7, 2021
- 4 min
Wisconsin’s Wolf Woes Pale Compared to Deer Dramas
One can’t help but admire how hard Wisconsin lawmakers and the Natural Resources Board worked in January to force the DNR to quickly...
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Patrick Durkin
- Jan 29, 2021
- 4 min
Beagles Get the Jump on Rabbits Despite Cold, Dry Air
ITHACA, Wisconsin – Jonathan Braun of Marshall caught on quickly to the hazards of hunting with an outdoor writer. In only our second...
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Patrick Durkin
- Jan 23, 2021
- 4 min
Stewardship Program: Funding Wisconsin’s Public Lands
Wisconsin lawmakers are again squabbling to craft a state budget, which means hunters, hikers, anglers, trappers and other outdoorsy...
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Patrick Durkin
- Jan 15, 2021
- 4 min
Arsonist Destroys Dreams, Treasures by Torching Cabin
Brandon Butler drove 3½ hours on Jan. 4 to see what remained of his hunting/fishing cabin. He then watched the still-flickering flames...
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Patrick Durkin
- Jan 10, 2021
- 4 min
Surprise Walleye Caps a Good, Calm Trout-Chasing Day
One reason Hobby Jackson takes me fishing whenever I ask is because I’m incapable of revealing his favorite spots. Jackson, 22, probably...
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Patrick Durkin
- Dec 31, 2020
- 4 min
Wild Turkeys Defy Winter in Wisconsin's Northwoods
Hunters too easily overlook the endless hazards that deer, turkeys and other wildlife must survive year-round if they’re to greet us when...
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Patrick Durkin
- Dec 26, 2020
- 4 min
Fallen Tree on Snowy Road Can’t Block Firewood Mission
Cursing the fallen spruce blocking the Conley Road, I put the truck’s transmission into reverse and started backing up. I guess we’d take...
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Patrick Durkin
- Dec 19, 2020
- 4 min
CWD Spreads as Critics Slam Crossbows, Protect Baiting
Judging by angry reader feedback and often poor cooperation for monitoring chronic wasting disease, it’s clear some Wisconsin hunters...
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Patrick Durkin
- Dec 12, 2020
- 4 min
Squirrels Die to Be Near Me
Where do squirrels go to die? Until the week of Dec. 6, I would have said “busy roads,” given how many bushytails we see pancaked on...
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Patrick Durkin
- Dec 4, 2020
- 4 min
MeatEater’s Survival Book Tops Christmas Gift Ideas
If you want to read a fun, insightful adventure book that doubles as a detail-rich textbook on staying safe outdoors, tell someone...
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Patrick Durkin
- Nov 26, 2020
- 4 min
CWD, COVID-19 Leave Marks on Wisconsin Deer Season
It’s hard to say which C-disease will make me recall the 2020 deer season with greater melancholy: coronavirus disease 2019 or chronic...
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Patrick Durkin
- Nov 18, 2020
- 5 min
Wisconsin Hunters Receive Little Help Controlling CWD
A Department of Natural Resources email arrived Friday the 13th with news more heartbreaking than surprising: The 3-year-old buck I...
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Patrick Durkin
- Nov 13, 2020
- 4 min
Wisconsin Deer Hunting Outperforms 1962 Prediction
Among the many books, articles, research papers and agency reports I’ve filed the past 40 years, I’ve long treasured a frail, yellowed...
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Patrick Durkin
- Nov 7, 2020
- 4 min
Passing Driver Fails to Ruin Late-Day Bowhunt
If you hang your treestand in can’t-miss-it view of a state highway, you cannot feign surprise and outrage when some jerk in a pickup...
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