Gov. Tony Evers’ “safer at home” order (item 11.c) recognizes outdoor activity as an essential activity. As such, all state parks, trails and …
In light of COVID-19, the Wisconsin Conservation Congress and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources are closely following guidelines f…
Every year, about this time, something marvelous happens. It’s an event millions of years in the making. It happens across the planet. It has …
Darkness engulfed the landscape, one of those black, heavy, darker-than-dark mornings without a moon or even stars above.
On March 3, state officials lauded 14 Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources conservation wardens for heroic acts that included rescuing re…
Early Saturday mornings are a blessing after a long week of working even longer hours.
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is accepting applications for the 2020 elk hunting tags through May 31. This fall marks the thir…
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…