Known to some as the “Freshwater Everest,” if you want to explore this mountain, you don’t go up, you go down. In the middle of Lake Superior, near the boundary between Canadian and U.S. waters, sits ...

A major wastewater discharge from the Great Lakes Cheese plant in August that caused a widespread fish kill in Ischua Creek was seemingly the worst since the facility began operations in late 2024.

I create a file on my desktop for each of the 26 issues of Wisconsin Outdoor News every year. All of those files are tucked inside my main “Issues Folder.” Within each folder I’ve created more folders ...

On top of Game Fair and State Fair, August in Minnesota just got even busier. Readers of this newspaper have seen us report about the SHOT and ICAST shows, the two big trade conventions serving the ...

Brad Heidel, the new executive director of Wisconsin Waterfowl Association (WWA), is excited to carry on the momentum retired WWA Executive Director Bruce Ross brought to the group during his ...

Adam Eisele, of Fort Atkinson, won the WISCO Bass Fishing Crown Championship Tournament Sept. 14, and for the fifth straight year was named the WISCO Angler of the Year. Eisele, 41, has been fishing ...

Beavers are making a comeback in Michigan. Once extirpated from the southern Lower Peninsula, the toothy critters are showing up in places such as Ann Arbor and even the Detroit River. At one time ...

My friend and I have been opening the duck season on a stretch of a small river the past five years, and we didn’t expect anything different. But when we arrived at the oxbow in the river, there were ...

Once upon a time, there was a poor mountaineer named Jed. One day he was out shooting at some food, he obviously missed, and a thick, black crude oil came bubbling up where his bullet hit the ground.