Outdoors

In a nation that boasts about equal pay for equal work and female participation in the armed forces, should anyone be surprised that more women are jo...

I picked up my old .22 rifle and held this trusty companion in my hands. The barrel’s once-bright blue was brownish now, the varnished walnut stock wo...

POWELL, Wyo. (AP) — Unbidden lake trout in Yellowstone Lake may find they can swim, but they cannot hide — if Trout Unlimited, federal and state entit...

It’s one of those days when you’re simply glad to be alive and fishing. The late June sun shone down on us, beaming, it seemed, with benevolent happin...

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Jim Haveman developed an interest in taxidermy as a child. An unused storage space in the basement of his parents' Grand R...

Editor’s Note: Outdoor writer Wade Robertson, who contributes regularly to the Olean Times Herald and The Bradford Era, won the 2016 Professional Outd...

If you did well in last month’s spring gobbler season, you’re either a very good turkey hunter or Lady Luck smiled on you. It was tough for most hunte...

FOUR BROTHERS ISLANDS (AP) — Biologists worry a decision by a federal judge to block programs that control double-crested cormorants in 24 states coul...

There is one thing an observant trout fisherman soon learns: It’s the absolute fact that small things can make all the difference when it comes to cat...

MENOMONIE, Wis. (AP) — Doug Dominick hopped off his pontoon boat Friday and into Lake Menomin to help 83-year-old Faye Miller catch a bass. Miller, wh...

Spring gobbler season 2016 was certainly a strange year. Though gobbler behavior varies from area to area, and even valley to valley, overall the big ...

Strangely, those of us who hunt spring turkeys feel as though we have lots of competition. I say “strangely” because here in the northeast, according ...

If our spring weather hasn’t been enough to motivate you to get outdoors, consider that two big events will take place this year. First, the National ...

Scouting for game is like detective work. Not so long ago hunters would tie a thread across a trail between a couple of trees about a foot off the gro...

CROOKED RIVER RANCH, Ore. (AP) — The salmonfly hatch on the Lower Deschutes is on, and anglers from throughout Oregon and even across the Northwest ar...

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Barking at bears, romping through the forest, sniffing for poaching evidence, getting petted by a child and maybe cooling off wi...

The other day I started thinking and realized how truly grateful and appreciative I am for our magnificent trout stocking programs. Over the years I’v...

What do the Arapaho, the Cheyenne, Kit Carson and Wild Bill Hickok all have in common? If you answered “not much” or “mutual animosity” you’d probably...