Most interactions between wildlife and humans don’t end well. A Tourist in Yellowstone walks too close to a buffalo and is gored. Some uneducated person wants to feed a mangy-looking dog that’s actually a coyote and gets bit. Someone stumbles upon a well-hidden fawn and gets roundhoused by a...

A week ago, a buddy of mine sent me a picture of twin fawns lying on the forest floor. While scouring the woods for morels, he stumbled onto the pair. They couldn’t have been more than a few days old. These encounters are happening all over the whitetail’s range right now. If you’re lucky enough to...

I love mushroom-filled ravioli, so I thought to add a few covetous morel mushrooms into ravioli this spring. With the addition of ground venison, you’ll get a meaty, satisfying meal. I use one of my favorite cooking shortcuts here: Instead of making homemade pasta, which is time-consuming and labor...

It wasn’t until I had both jakes pieced out and in the cooler that I realized I hadn’t taken a picture of my daughters and I with their birds. In the excitement of a double during a beautiful spring morning in Minnesota, I’d neglected to get the image that might mean the most to me in the future...

Whether you call them slabs, specks, calico, or sac-a-lait, there is no doubt that crappie are the most pursued and popular panfish in North America. With a range that extends from Southern Canada all the way to the Texas Panhandle, crappie are found in almost every state in the US. Though not quite...

Sure, it’s May, and some states still have open turkey seasons. The thought of deer or elk season is just a faint glimmer on the horizon. While it might seem like you have an endless amount of time until the next big game seasons roll around, you’ll wake up one day in September only to realize that...

Any fisherman who isn’t still being carded for adult beverages can likely remember more than a few controversies with fishing technology. Way back, it was flashers, then GPS, then mapping, and then side imaging. Each of these advances had critics claim that it would ruin fishing or it was too...

Canadians don’t like anyone stealing their moose, but they especially don’t like it when the poachers are Americans. The Government of Ontario announced last week that it had fined 20 defendants a total of $178,400 and ordered them to pay $44,525 in surcharges for a variety of moose-hunting...