A mix of outdoors stories from Wisconsin, including information on the 2026 Winnebago system sturgeon spearing season.

MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) will begin accepting reservations for sharp-tailed grouse viewing blinds at Namekagon Barrens Wildlife Area on Saturday, Jan. 10.

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) recently announced the culmination of a multiyear, international effort to restore and stabilize the endangered Spruce Grouse ...

The Bureau of Land Management has released final greater sage-grouse habitat plans for eight states that will remove height benchmarks for perennial grasses, among other changes. The changes make ...

Hunters registered a kill of five sharp-tailed grouse in the 2025 Wisconsin hunting season, according to the Department of Natural Resources. Only 12 permits were issued for the season, the first for ...

The government moves to make it easier to drill, mine and graze on 50 million acres of land in the West. By Lisa Friedman The Trump administration weakened protections on Monday for the vulnerable ...

Greater sage grouse (Bob Wick/BLM via Center for Biological Diversity). (CN) — The Trump administration on Monday released final land-use plans concerning imperiled sage grouse habitat across eight ...

Winter arrived early this year, and unlike such occasions in the past decade, she has decided to stay. The temperatures have been consistently below freezing since Thanksgiving, and it has actually ...

If you didn’t know what you were listening to, you might suspect a larger creature was stirring in the brush. The explosion of feathers and wings and all thing bird both will startle you and, in a ...

Decades-Old Rule that Allowed Logging on Vast Swaths of US Land Ruled Unlawful by Oregon Court This Small Alabama Town Was Part of the Manhattan Project. Now It May Host a Hyperscale Data Center. A ...

I once dated a Frenchman for his cashmere blazer—the buttery feel on my cheek, the faint caramel scent in the chilly October sun. We lasted one Parisian autumn. I was more in love with the style than ...

This story, “Best Grouse Hunting in America,” appeared in the Sept. 1985 issue of Outdoor Life. Bob Barbo is known as a duck hunter. His family cars have never seen the inside of the ga­rage. It is ...