Outdoor News Archive

Inland walleye fishing is closed. The inland season for walleye, pike, and musky will re-open on April 26th. Walleye fishing is open year-round in the Lower Peninsula Great Lakes, Lake St. Clair, St. Clair River, and the Detroit River. Ice conditions around the southern sections of the Lower Peninsula are starting to deteriorate and may no longer be safe. All anglers need to use extreme caution this time of year as late ice can be extremely dangerous...

The Gerald Eddy Discovery Center has announced its spring programs for 2008. The center is located at Waterloo State Recreation Area near Chelsea...

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources today announced that a wildlife track found in Delta County is most likely from a cougar...

Law enforcement officials with the Department of Natural Resources are seeking information in a wildlife poaching incident which occurred in February in eastern Missaukee County involving a bald eagle...

A combination of approximately 600-800 canvasback and redhead ducks have turned up dead along the St. Clair River and Lake St. Clair shorelines, according to the Department of Natural Resources. The die-off likely has been caused by malnutrition, as toxicology tests on the ducks have ruled out other causes, DNR wildlife biologists said...

Disease surveillance and monitoring efforts by the Department of Natural Resources during the 2007 white-tailed deer hunting season showed that the prevalence rate for bovine tuberculosis (TB) dropped to 1.4 percent in Deer Management Unit 452. DMU 452 is the core area of the TB outbreak in northeastern Lower Michigan that includes parts of Alcona, Alpena, Montmorency and Oscoda counties...

Spring officially begins today, and while signs of spring have been showing up in greater numbers across central and southern Wisconsin, winter was holding on in the north, with some areas receiving as much as 6 inches of new snow in the last week. Snow depths of up to two feet were still being reported in Vilas and Iron counties, and snowmobile trails were still being reported in fair to good conditions. Most state parks are reporting cross-country ski trails were now closed...

Great food makes any experience better, and many outdoors enthusiasts believe that is especially true when the food is prepared and enjoyed in the outdoors...

Some varieties of tree seedlings are still available from state tree nurseries for Wisconsin landowners who are interested in planting trees on their property this spring...

A federally mandated transition from traditional, analog broadcasts to all-digital broadcasts is likely to result in many households replacing their current televisions with new digital TVs. State environmental officials are offering information on how people can recycle their electronic equipment in Wisconsin to avoid putting heavy metals in landfills and to recycle and reuse valuable metals...