3+ hour, 32+ min ago  (257+ words) WISCONSIN " The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) today announced preliminary totals for the 2026 spring turkey season. Wisconsin turkey hunters registered 47, 725 birds this season, 8. 6% above the 5-year average of 43, 953. This spring marks 50 years since wild turkeys were successfully reintroduced to…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (296+ words) The birds were quiet, but a tangle of dead trees squeaked and chirped in damp gusts as we hiked back from High Falls in Tettegouche State Park, Minn. The falls had been gushing, and climbing the stairs near the falls…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago  (214+ words) (If you'd be willing to help April Ogimaakwe Stone, member of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, harvest and pound the trees into basket strips during the first week of June, check the Cable Natural History Museum website…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (788+ words) Dryden Wire. com The tannin-stained waters of the Cascade River churned frothily into the cold, blue waters of Lake Superior. Upstream, impressive torrents of spring melt poured through the sculpted canyons as if they were a root beer float fountain…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (782+ words) Dryden Wire. com A small strip of open water reflected the blazing sunset sky. Although my partner and I dug our toes into a sand beach at the Day Lake Recreation Area near Clam Lake, Wis. , the punky ice with…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (769+ words) Turkey vultures and black vultures circled above the trees. As I expected, I'd spotted my first turkey vulture of the year the day after I wrote the article about them. Then I promptly headed south to meet their migration. Now,…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (264+ words) MADISON, WI " Representative Chanz Green (R-Grand View) issued the following statement after the Forestry Revitalization Act was signed into law: "This is not only a major win for Hayward and Northern Wisconsin, but also a significant boost for our forestry…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (892+ words) Mesmerized, I paused in the warm, South Carolina sunshine to watch a kettle of turkey vultures circle lazily, their wings tracing the invisible movements of air. From a nearby tree line came the lusty singing of a brown thrasher, and…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (167+ words) MADISON, WI " Yesterday the State Senate passed legislation to incentivize a new facility in the Hayward area that will create aviation biofuel out of wood. Senator Romaine Robert Quinn (R-Birchwood) championed the legislation and celebrated its passage to revitalize Northern…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (705+ words) After watching our fill of Canada jays, red squirrels, and boreal chickadees fill their bellies with peanut butter at the Admiral Road feeders in Sax-Zim Bog, my family and I wandered over to the Friends of Sax-Zim Bog Welcome Center…...