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No helmets, no seatbelts top factors in fatal ATV/UTV crashes so far in 2026
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) statistics show the lack of wearing helmets and using seatbelts are the primary causes of the 29 fatal ATV/UTV incidents so far in 2026. Wisconsin leads the nation in fatal ATV/UTV incidents.
Hunting, trapping and fishing season calendar
Note: 2026-27 licenses through the Department of Natural Resources are on sale now. Check your GoWild account for more information.
Supposedly, no deer in the Northwoods
The other night while I settled in on the porch, a Wisconsin hunting podcast popped up on my smartphone, so I decided to listen to their input on the areas in the state that offer the best and the least popular deer hunting destination.
Hardwoood Hearings
The bending banks in rivers wild brought me my first Badger State fish on a late summer day over a decade ago. Archaic branches of a fallen tree bent upward out of the water, but the structure beneath felt the freelance fins that tightened my line.
The Lake Where You Live
If your lake contains bass, chances are you have some combination of smallmouths and largemouths. That’s the case here on Birch Lake, although the ratio has varied over the years. When we started vacationing here more than three decades ago, largemouths dominated. In fact, I never caught a smallie until …
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Cameras capture auxiliary marker resight information
Prior to the sentences that follow, take a look at your pinky fingernail and imagine there are two or three letters or numbers engraved on it. It could be 859, LH, 3XJ, OHH, 6XH, JN, 5NV, or some other combination of alphanumerics.
Avoid ash trees when placing deer stands
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) reminds hunters to avoid placing deer stands in or near ash trees as they start scouting properties ahead of the coming deer hunting season.
Become a community scientist by surveying wildlife for the DNR
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) reminds the public that anyone can become a community scientist by participating in Operation Deer Watch and the Game Bird Survey.
Hunting, trapping and fishing season calendar
Note: 2026-27 licenses through the Department of Natural Resources are on sale now. Check your GoWild account for more information.
Northwoods Yard & Garden
Hot and dry conditions occurring throughout Wisconsin this summer have put considerable amounts of stress on plants. Grasses, for example, currently range in appearance from brown and looking dead to green and flourishing, with assorted shades of each color in between. This clearly illustrates various grass species react differently to …
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Northwoods Almanac
I love old-growth forests, have hiked in many of them, and then subsequently written extensively about them. One quote that has always stuck in my mind is this: “Old trees are the only terrestrial organisms to have lived through the entirely of the Industrial Age” (N. G. Phillips).
Hardwoood Hearings
One of the more impassable objects in a duck hunter’s world are cattails. A flimsy little green thing, when laced, looped, twisted, turned, and knotted together provides a near impenetrable barrier.
Train ride turned fishing guide
“I guess you could say I was born in the wrong place,” George Metrich told The Lakeland Times as he remembered his youth on the South Side of Chicago. Metrich, a Marine Corps Vietnam War vet, said he first absorbed the Northwoods on a bow hunt soon after he got …
Last Kids Fishing Day in Minocqua Aug. 11
There is one more Kids Fishing Day left this summer that is presented by the Northwoods Chapter of Muskies Inc. It will be held Aug. 11. The event begins at 5 p.m. and goes until 7 p.m. at the Minocqua fishing pier on the southside of the Island.
Northwoods Yard & Garden
August, the last month of summer, has already arrived. Yard and garden activities focus on continued summer maintenance of many plants but also start looking ahead to planning fall projects, including lawn work, and expanding garden areas.
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