There will be more opportunities now to study the sky as I walk away from the campfire. Venus is slipping dangerously close to the horizon bef…
We have a four-year-old son so dinosaurs are a really big deal in our house. Styracosaurus, Ankylosaurus and Parasaurolophus (and, yes, someho…
LADYSMITH -- It hit me when I was about halfway through cleaning the mess of black crappies and bluegills outside of our cabin on the Chippewa…
Sweet smells. Sweet memories. Lilac flowers appear one morning as if coaxed during the night by the Queen to share their purple sweetness.
There’s a very crafty sign just inside my door that says “Every birdie’s Welcome.”
Electrofishing captures the public’s imagination more than any other Department of Natural Resources activity.
Spring shows up anew every day now with splashes and dashes of color in the rapidly budding trees showing thousands of tiny new leaves.
During college I spent a summer working for Montana State University as a fisheries intern. It was an incredible experience, and a summer I wi…
Birds don’t need nests for day-to-day living. Nests are not birds’ homes in the same sense a fox has a den or a squirrel holes up in a tree cavity.
If ever a spring needed fishing, this is it. And if ever a weekend needed warm weather, this is the weekend.
It’s May Day. And since it falls on a Friday, perhaps it should just extend through the weekend. In the tradition of May Day, is there someone…
Here’s the scenario: You must scramble across slippery rocks without falling into the cold water. Then you have to chase down large prehistori…
It’s quite the show and it’s quite free. It’s a traveling program, sometimes of barnstorming proportions, and there is no set time when this v…
SPOONER – Next week marks the 40th anniversary of the historic Oak Lake Fire. Like many in the area, I remember it like it was yesterday.
Winter picked up the fight the other day. Perhaps threw its last punch. That punch from the Ol’ Man landed but didn’t hurt, lingered for a day…
They’re paired up now. At the edges of lakes and rivers, where the cattails share the water, in the marshes and ponds and in muddy fields of c…
As teenagers growing up in Chippewa Falls, my friends and I discovered catfishing by accident.
The creek was running at spring speed. Not rushing, not roaring, but neither in no mood to linger. Its pace was a bit throttled by a drawn-out…
CADOTT — Todd Stelzer checks blanks glistening in his starter pistol’s cylinder, snaps it closed and signals to Lucy, his three-year-old sprin…
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Spring is for exploring. The season of peeling back winter’s covering to see what’s coming is a bit early this year. That’s good, considering …
Rising hours before sunrise to get a “good seat” is a common practice for birdwatchers.
From atop a hill my vantage point of the lake is quite impressive. As is the silence. I don’t know which drew me here the most, but now I’m th…
Darkness engulfed the landscape, one of those black, heavy, darker-than-dark mornings without a moon or even stars above.
Horned larks are messing with my eyes. I guess the birds were just hatched that way.
Olson’s Ice Cream of Chippewa Falls has purchased mobile ice cream retailer 9 Degrees of Eau Claire.
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 …
It seems a bit of a crime, this daylight saving time, starting when the chill is still in our throes and the peaks of snowbanks peeking in the…