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Wisconsin lost two hard-working conservationists in August, as Carl Batha, 78, and Carol Murphy, 64, passed away. Batha, of Platteville, retired from the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) as a ...

Count Outdoor News among those endorsing Dennis Anderson’s suggestion that the Minnesota DNR should coordinate and host a Duck Summit. Gov. Mark Dayton pitched a Pheasant Summit in 2014, and hunters ...

Yours truly came “this close” to drowning on the North Fork of Wisconsin’s Flambeau River last August. Now, how close “this close” really was to leaving our beautiful world for good no one will ever ...

The North Dakota Game and Fish Department’s 78th annual spring breeding duck survey conducted in May showed an index of about 2.66 million birds, down from 2.9 million in 2024 and 3.4 million in 2023.

I’m a casual grouse hunter at best. I don’t own a pointing dog or a double-barreled shotgun. I don’t anticipate the grouse opener in Minnesota with the same zeal as I do the fishing opener ...

“We are following the law. And are doing so in a way that provides certainty that wolf populations in Montana will remain off the Endangered Species List.” ...

Dathon Skelton says working gunning decoys tend to have simpler paint schemes and less detail. He has branched out from carving duck decoys to carving more songbirds. Regardless, he says carving is ...

After 12 years and more than 200 columns, I’m hanging up my hat as a columnist for Outdoor News in Minnesota. It’s been a great run, but it’s simply time for a change. Change has been at the heart of ...

“We are going to do a combination of ground fishing and shark fishing,” I told anyone who would listen, as the summer field trip for the Duck’s Unlimited (DU) Conservation Programs Committee (CPC) ...