And now February is upon us.
On a recent winter night, the sun slipping below the horizon, about 100 cars and several school buses filled a large parking lot in the Eau Cl…
It’s that time of year again, bird fans! We’re into the coldest average temperatures of the year, Chequamegon Bay is frozen and the days are j…
One chair is open at a table at the Coffee Grounds in Eau Claire where for many years his hunting buddies gathered weekdays to plan their trip…
When Russell Giere of Altoona headed out to hunt in Dunn County during the 2019 gun and muzzleloader seasons, he didn’t have any luck: He only…
The many snowmobilers crossing Little Round Lake near Highway B on Saturday, Jan. 25, might have noticed a cluster of anglers set up about 100…
ROCK FALLS — The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is doing what it can to understand the affect chronic wasting disease is having on …
As I exhaled, a billowing cloud of swirling white breath lifted high into the air.
When Ron Burger was just a boy growing up in southern Wisconsin, the quiet Northwoods was his refuge, a place where he felt he could grow away…
On the heels of being lauded as the Wisconsin warden of 2019, Conservation Warden Dale Hochhausen’s outstanding public service caught the atte…
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is now accepting applications for its annual Wisconsin Hunter Ethics Award.
With the new year upon us, healthy lifestyle habits are sure to be on many people’s minds as they plan for changes in diet and exercise. The n…
One of the traits that makes birds spectacular, is color. They come in every shade — green jay, blue jay, brown jay, scarlet tanager, yellow w…
A painstaking effort by state conservation biologists to pollinate Wisconsin’s rarest wild orchids by hand has paid off: all flowers pollinate…
When I was in fourth grade, I was assigned a project and presentation on the state of Indiana, where I spent most of my growing-up years. Sinc…
“It’s a long way from Park Falls to Rice Lake.”
DODGEVILLE — One of Wisconsin’s largest parks, Governor Dodge State Park, attracts over 500,000 people to southwest Wisconsin each year to enj…
Smoke from the cabin chimney hangs over the valley, the sweet smell of woodsmoke filling the air as dawn’s first light begins to chase the dar…
SPOONER — Although the morning weather forecast called for brisk and sunny weather, young ice fishermen on the Yellow River flowing through Sp…
RICE LAKE — Dawn had painted the horizon all around in hues of yellow, orange and mauve. The trapper takes note. But on this single-digit temp…
CODY, Wyo. — For the past three years our hunting trip to Wyoming had fallen victim to hot, dry temperatures that kept the mule deer hidden hi…
BARRONETT — A whitetail deer found dead in Washburn County in the town of Barronett during the recent Wisconsin gun deer season was killed by …
The Department of Natural Resources staff will be stocking 2,260 pheasants on eight properties in southern Wisconsin during the week of Dec. 1…
A woman is facing possible charges or citations after she shot and killed two bull elk in Rusk County on Nov. 25, according to the Department …
The calendar and the weather combined to spare tens of thousands of deer during Wisconsin’s recently concluded nine-day gun deer hunting season.
From early childhood through my mid-teens there was only one dog in my life, Scamp, my black lab. No dog after ever tugged at my heart … until…
Don’t tell Florence Teeters she’s too old to enjoy Wisconsin’s great outdoors as a gun-deer hunter, along with ziplining, going to Mardi Gras …
The owners of a Durand meat locker are taking a stand against what they view as misleading hype about chronic wasting disease — even if it goe…