OUTDOORS
Harshaw Sports Club Banquet coming up in March
The Harshaw Sports Club is known for its distinct sporting clays course. It also has a Wednesday trap league, runs hunter safety education and heavily supports youth shooting sports.
Ice fishing south
I grew up in southeastern Wisconsin in the suburbs of Milwaukee and an area referred to as Lake Country. We ice fished a little bit on a few lakes nearby while growing up and there are great memories from that time. One thing, however, is I never got to experience …
Waterfowl Congregate at the Colusa National Wildlife Refuge
As waterfowl in the Pacific Flyway prep to leave the wintering grounds and spread their wings for a migration northward, they rest and refuel at the Colusa National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) in Colusa, Calif. The Colusa NWR is a subunit of the combined Sacramento NWR, which includes other units like …
The Lake Where You Live
A fellow Birch Lake resident wrote lately to ask if Birch Lake still has bullheads. He’d seen schools of black bullhead fry in the shallows near his dock, but not in recent years. In the teeth of a long cold front, I enjoyed getting a question about a liquid-water, summer-ish …
MLF’s Fishing Clash Team Series Heritage Cup in Minocqua premiered on Outdoor Channel
The first episode of the Major League Fishing’s (MLF) Fishing Clash Team Series Knighten Industries Heritage Cup Presented by Bass Boat Technologies from Minocqua premiered on Outdoor Channel. New MLF episodes premiere each Saturday morning on Outdoor Channel, with re-airings available on the MyOutdoorTV (MOTV) app.
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Northwoods Yard & Garden
Green houseplants enhance our indoor winter environments in many ways. All growing plants, including those green houseplants, are very efficient systems of specialized tissues and processes that collectively work together with some basic essential inputs.
Sleeping Away the Winter Months
Sometimes during the winter months you have to be somewhat envious of the black bear. Can you imagine for a second, that we would have the physiological capability to simply enter into a deep sleep from the month of November and gradually wake up in early spring.
Vilas County LWC hosts regional speaking, poster competion
“Essentially, all life depends upon the soil ... there can be no life without soil and no soil without life; they have evolved together.”
Minocqua Forest Riders Vintage Snowmobile Day set for Feb. 21
Last year’s Minocqua Forest Riders Snowmobile Club’s Vintage Snowmobile Day drew almost 1,000 people. Organizers say this year’s program is shaping to draw even more people to the event. The event will take place at the Area 31 complex at 13050 Gilbertson Road, Minocqua.
Hunting, trapping and fishing season calendar
Note: 2026-27 licenses through the Department of Natural Resources will go on sale early March of 2026, check your GoWild account for more information.
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The Lake Where You Live
What looks more lifeless than a snow-covered lake on a February morning when I can’t remember that last day the temperature topped 32 degrees? I know there’s life under the ice, but there certainly isn’t any on top of it. From our shoreline I can see one fishing shack positioned …
2026 sturgeon spearing season opens Feb. 14
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is preparing for the sturgeon spearing season opening Saturday, Feb. 14, on the Winnebago System. With one of the largest lake sturgeon populations in North America, the Winnebago System supports an annual spearing season that runs for a maximum of 16 days (closing …
Northwoods Almanac
I typically write in this column entirely about the outer landscape – the stories of all the species that form this natural community we call the Northwoods. But actually I’m also writing about the inner landscape – yours and mine – which is the emotional landscape we employ to love …
Wisconsin Waterfowl Association holds town hall meeting
On Monday evening, Jan. 19, the Wisconsin Waterfowl Association invited Department of Natural Resources game bird ecologist Taylor Finger to a Zoom call looking at Mississippi Flyway changes and to take input on setting the 2026 season. He stated a public input form would be available in March and urged …
The rare animals of Wisconsin
There are many animals that one has seen while living in the Northwoods. At the same time, there are plenty of animals that are hard to spot, very rare or non-existent. Here are four animals that may or may not be seen in Wisconsin.
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