At a recent sportsmen’s breakfast in Lansing, I was surprised (and a little encouraged) when the event’s speaker asked hunters to stand together and demand better from the Michigan Department of ...

Catch-and-keep bass season is still a ways off in Michigan, but the best fishing of the year may be right now. “No doubt about it,” said Ben Nielsen, who hosted me on his bass boat on Hardy Dam Pond ...

Minnesota blew the lid off its previous record spring wild turkey harvest last year, and the first half of 2025 has kept pace with 2024. My daughter, my dad, and I must’ve hit the midseason doldrums ...

All the twists and turns and trips and tricks navigated by Tammy Miller over her nearly three decades with the DNR were the result of a particular skill learned by rural small-town farm kids across ...

“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.” ...

The DNR stocked 197.38 pounds of yearling Driftless Area brook trout into four trout streams this year – about 2,100 brookies total. An increase in sales tax receipts in Minnesota has led to a roughly ...

He lived around Harrisburg in downstate Pennsylvania. Worked at the Nestle’s water plant in that area. That’s about all I knew about him. Well, that’s not entirely correct. I knew that, like me, he ...

The first week of the game-fish season in Minnesota has been wonderful, with cooperative walleyes and crappies – just as I expected. The warm weather leading up to the first week of season was ...

In Northeast Ohio, two bass fishing clubs – one comprised of predominantly white anglers, the other predominantly black – have come together, not just to share the water, but to forge a perfect union.

After a quick check with our reporters who attended CDAC meetings, CDAC members and DNR personnel, it sounds as though the proposal for new numbered deer units – switching from county units to units ...

For a week in early April, Ohio’s Sandusky River had hardly lived up to its designation as “state scenic,” boiling brown and angry and flooding bankside lowlands. Four and a quarter inches of rain or ...

It’s 87 degrees in early April near Pine Island, Fla., and veteran fishing guide and charter captain Troy Creasy is enjoying an early-evening splash of bourbon after a long day on the water. He’s hot ...