MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The state Department of Natural Resources policy board narrowly refused Republican legislators' request Friday to impleme…
Price County has hosted some unusual rare bird visitors this winter. First it was a brown thrasher on Berry Patch Road in Fifield, a rare grea…
On a cloudy and relatively mild day with temperatures in the 20s, the Bobber’s on the Lake ice fishing contest had a great turnout with nearly…
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican lawmakers want the state Department of Natural Resources to implement a wolf hunt immediately and not wait unt…
Each time I walk out to check my new trail camera, the moments are filled with anticipation and excitement. Who will I find today? Lately, tho…
Early January, usually one of our coldest winter months, has been uncharacteristically mild with daytime temperatures in the mid to upper 20s …
The Department of Natural Resources will host a public meeting to discuss updating the Wisconsin Walleye Management Plan for Oneida, Price and…
The Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest has extended free personal use firewood gathering through May 31, 2021. The forest is not requiring pe…
“Blueberries!” shouted a chorus of young voices, with each kid occupying one section of a grid on my computer screen. The ubiquitous Zoom call…
This week’s column will provide some recent area bird sightings in preparation for the upcoming 55th Fifield-Park Falls Audubon Christmas Bird…
This is the last in a three-part series, Celebrating 100 years of Bird-banding. Part 1 provided a general overview of why we band birds, Part …
The world feels pretty dark these days, don’t you think? Our daily routines—governed by clocks—are the backdrop against which we can measure t…
Hunters shot 1,693 deer in Price County during the Nov. 21-29 nine-day gun season, slightly down from last year’s total of 1,742. There were 2…
MADISON (AP) — Wisconsin will resume its wolf season next November after the animal is dropped from the federal endangered species list, the s…
In gray afternoon light, with clouds hanging low and damp, and snow clinging to the lace of barren trees, little specks of slush began to spla…
Our Nature Education Center (NEC) in Fifield has an active educational and research bird banding program. I have held an official Master Feder…
Everyone needs a good holiday story, especially this year. Bird fans all over the country were enchanted last week by the adventures of Rockef…
Despite much better hunting conditions than a year ago, Price County hunters harvested 758 deer — 517 antlered, 214 antlerless — during the ni…
The Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest has received two awards for storm recovery efforts on the Great Divide and Lakewood-Laona Ranger Districts.
Steely cold seeped through my gloved fingers as they gripped the lock on my front door. The chill of winter had found an easy path through thi…
This year marks the 100th anniversary of a research program dedicated to the scientific study of birds using the tool of bird banding. It is s…
With blue sky above and a skim of fresh snow clinging to every twig and blanketing the ground, I hummed along happily on the two-lane highway.…
The annual white-tailed deer rut is in full swing in our Northwoods and bucks are going crazy looking for females to mate with. At our Nature …
As Wisconsin hunters prepare to head out for the nine-day gun deer season opening on Saturday, Nov. 21, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Re…
Apparently, I ‘snapped a trap’ with my stories on the invasion of the deer mice in my last two columns. It turns out that I heard from people …
“Every year we have been witness to it: how the world descends into a rich mash, in order that it may resume.”
You can blame it all on the black bears! It all started in the spring of 2020 when I had to take in our bird feeders every night, so the bears…
Behind the Sherman & Ruth Weiss Community Library in Hayward, Wisconsin, there is a half-mile loop trail around a wetland, through a fores…
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