I checked a few more sets and had seven more rats. I moved the rest of my empty traps to new houses further into the marsh.

But An Outdoor Journal, his seventh book, stands out from the others as a unique memoir of the times Carter spent outdoors ...

The deep freeze of recent weeks had ice anglers across Pennsylvania dusting off the tip-ups, augers, and other gear they hadn’t used in at least two years.

My deer-hunting history is one of forkhorns, 3-pointers and, after Pennsylvania implemented antler restrictions, a few basket-racked sixes and sevens, as well as antlerless whitetails and seasons with ...

Darren Kuhn, an administrative Wisconsin DNR conservation warden in the Green Bay area, was called upon to help a field warden with patrol on opening day of the gun deer season in Kewaunee County, ...

During my days as a soldier in the U.S. Army’s Alpha Co., 2nd/60th Mechanized Infantry Battalion at Fort Lewis Washington I often found myself right up against it for one reason or another. Most of ...

There is no way I would access a lake without my chartplotter. I remove the chartplotter from my boat in the autumn and install it on my ATV with a heavy-duty ball mount, plug in a 12 volt cord, and I ...

It’s been a short bit since the great winter storm of 2025 hit southern Illinois, and frankly, we are still digging things out and dealing with its by-products. As is typical down here in the hills ...

Iowa’s pheasant opener was busy, with lots of hunter success.

Hunting, fishing, trapping and conservation issues can change quickly with a nasty winter, disease and other influences that challenge the animals on the landscape and the people who pursue them. Then ...

I’m not sure if I ever fished open water for walleyes in January. I know I fished in Lake Erie several times in late December. I fished the Saginaw River in December but don’t remember fishing ...

Two separate incidents involving wolves and humans in Oneida County recently haven’t led to any increased warnings for hunters or citizens, according to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.