PATRICK DURKIN OUTDOORS

Benjamin Karasch of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, is the bowhunter who killed a mountain lion Nov. 11 in Buffalo County after it spotted him...

How long can hunters function without their smartphone and good cellular service? Jason Munz, 42, of Eau Claire made it roughly four...

Wisconsin welcomed the deer herds of Polk and Trempealeau counties to its CWD-tainted roster in late October, leaving only 29 of the...

Folks who scorn gray wolves often claim they see more of them than white-tailed deer when poking around Wisconsin’s Northwoods the past...

Tom Heberlein has long trimmed two faint trails through the back end of his Northwoods 40 to ease access to the Chequamegon National...

Long after Wisconsin “realigned” the Department of Natural Resources to “streamline state government” in November 2016, the agency’s...

Who would have thought demonizing wolves is so vital to Wisconsin that state senators would torpedo the Natural Resources Board just so...

MINOCQUA – Chicago accents blend into the cultural fabric and lure-jammed aisles of Rollie & Helen’s Musky Shop on Highway 51. After all,...

As an out-of-state visitor who pays nearly 10 times more than a resident to bowhunt Colorado’s elk, you’d appreciate a little local...

STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colorado – Frosty grass and numb hands suggest bull elk should be rutting and bugling, yet the mountains where I'm...

Many folks don’t know that until 50 years ago, Wisconsin’s cars and trucks killed more deer by accident than bowhunters did on purpose....

A loyal Chetek reader wrote last week to share a mid-1960s tale about her father and two buddies fishing one night in the Mississippi...

Good fishing stories write themselves after you futilely search Madison’s Lake Mendota for suspended walleyes and return instead with 10...

Some men walk through woodlands and fallow fields each summer and see only weeds and lush brush. But when Sam Thayer follows their...

When Mercer-area friends, family and fishing guides advise visitors to “fish the wood” on the Turtle-Flambeau Flowage, they really aren’t...

As Tyson Hall and Chad White of Cross Plains watched the Piper Cub disappear into Alaska’s skies in early May, they couldn’t wait to...

Ron Leys retired over three decades ago as the Milwaukee Journal’s outdoors editor, roughly four years before Wisconsin’s largest...

Those who risk paddling a canoe or tandem kayak with kin or friends might never speak again once reaching shore and retreating to...

This guy I've long known has always looked smart and talked intelligently, and so I listened closely when he said I shouldn’t dismiss...

You’d think a creature as regal as the common loon would have the instincts and intelligence to follow boats other than mine when seeking...