PHILLIPS — It was a much larger crowd than usual to attend the 2024 Spring Hearing of the Wisconsin Conservation Congress, according to delega…
A number of years ago my sister Karen and I went on a girls' camping trip in the state forest over at Big Lake in Iron County. While we were s…
Well, there wasn't much to see for our partial solar eclipse in the Northland this week thanks to the dense cloud cover. You couldn't even do …
While most people are focused on spring, Gays Mills is beginning to look to the fall.
SPOONER — The Wisconsin Canoe Heritage Museum in Spooner is once again making plans to celebrate Wisconsin Canoe Heritage Day on May 25, the S…
When I wrote my first outdoors column for the Ashland Daily Press in July of 2019, I traced my interest in birds back to a sighting of a Stell…
During a strangely warm winter that made maple trees ready to share their sap earlier than usual, a Wisconsin forestry outreach specialist fou…
So we’ve all heard the phrase “a fish out of water,” but how do we describe a bird that is out of its usual element, but very much in the wate…
Though it’s been hard to track the change in seasons during this perpetual early November we’ve called a winter this year, the lengthening day…
Though it’s been hard to track the change in seasons during this perpetual early November we’ve called a winter this year, the lengthening day…
A couple of weeks ago I was pulling into my driveway late at night when I saw a bright flash of white against the browns of the mud and grass …
MADISON — The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and University of Wisconsin-Extension are asking anglers to help prevent the spr…
Our recent polar blast has led to a big crowd of visitors at the bird feeders, including what I think might be most of the entire local popula…
MADISON — An incident in northern Wisconsin that resulted in a wolf being shot under a claim of self defense is under investigation by U.S. Fi…
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If you’re playing close attention these days, you’ll notice there’s a few more minutes of daylight now than there were a couple weeks ago. As …
Walking through the woods or a field in the winter reveals a number of things that you won’t see in the summertime. Multiple animal tracks cri…
We finally received a modicum of snow to usher in the New Year, not quite enough to hide the grass but enough to brighten up the unrelenting b…
Well, we’ve passed just about the wettest and brownest Christmas that I can recall since moving to Wisconsin from Indiana 30 years ago. Most m…
GREEN BAY, Wis. — Wisconsin archaeologists are crediting a man and daughter with discovering the remains of what could be a ship that ran agro…
A recent drive down Ashland’s Sanborn Avenue gave a startling visual of this year’s delayed winter season: a patch of reflective blue at the e…
SOLON SPRINGS — On Saturday, Dec. 9, a crowd of 150 passionate but disgruntled deer hunters met with a Wisconsin congressman and five state le…
A few weeks ago I wrote about the lovely little Anna’s hummingbird, a recent rare visitor to our state. Well, little did I know that I was wad…
Scientists at Northland College have documented perhaps the first American marten on Madeline Island in more than a century.
EAU CLAIRE — If you didn’t see a deer while hunting in the past week, you aren’t alone, says Jeff Pritzl, state deer program specialist with t…
It’s been a great year for unusual bird sightings in Wisconsin and around the Upper Midwest.
MONTANA — When 39-year-old Wisconsin bow hunter Ben Karasch climbed into his tree stand on Nov. 11, he was hoping to see one of the legendary …
EAU CLAIRE — You might think that ground squirrels from Wisconsin are not that much different from California ground squirrels, but Team Squir…
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources will discuss management of Lake Superior fisheries at 6 p.m. Nov. 29 at the Vaughn Public Librar…