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.

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 ...

North Dakota’s spring light goose conservation order opens Feb. 17 and continues through May 12. Residents must have a 2023-24 (valid through March 31) or 2024-25 (required April 1) combination ...

Early ice is not a time for wheelhouses or stationary shelters. The ice won’t support the weight. So what you see at early ice are portable shelters being pulled like sleds with a minimum amount of ...

I used to really be into winter. In fact, as soon as deer season was over, I would be breaking out the ice fishing gear, tuning up the cross-country skis and watching the weather forecast hoping for ...

“It’s Vermont’s equivalent of rediscovering the ivory-billed woodpecker.” ...

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, ...

Owls can be easier to spot in wintertime: great horned owls start hooting and nesting while we’re still in winter’s grip, and barred owls aren’t far behind. And an elusive screech owl may turn up at ...

When Congress last month passed an extension to the federal farm bill for 2025 and avoided a government shutdown, the bill, unlike other extensions, did not include funding for a popular bipartisan ...

It is never certain how long it will last, but at the time of this writing on Jan. 19, ice fishing is underway in certain locations on Ohio’s north coast. Going from temperatures that were over 50 ...

A session at the 2025 Minnesota DNR Roundtable on Friday, Jan. 10, focused on state muskie research and future management of the species. Brian Herwig and Mike Knapp from DNR Fisheries along with ...