When moving around the yard and house at Six Mile Lake, I like to keep an eye out for new tracks, especially after fresh snow or, this past week, an increasingly muddy driveway. The vast majority of prints are deer and red squirrels, along with the tridents and feather marks from birds hopping ...

IRON MOUNTAIN — The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and the Wisconsin Conservation Congress will host the 2022 Spring Hearing online, with the page going live at 7 p.m. April 11. The public will have three days to provide input on proposed natural resources rule changes from the ...

Three newborn bear cubs have left the intensive care unit at a Rhinelander, Wis., wildlife rehabilitation clinic earlier this month and are continuing to healthily grow in the facility’s care, the clinic’s co-founder said. Mark Naniot, the director of wildlife rehabilitation at Wild ...

What a difference a week can make in March. We hit Daylight Savings Time early last Sunday, when we try as humans to convince ourselves we’re capable of manipulating the day, even though the length of sunlight actually changes little. This Sunday morning marks the official start of the 2022 ...

IRON MOUNTAIN — The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is holding the first round of County Deer Advisory Council public meetings beginning Monday, via Zoom. Both the Florence and Marinette CDAC meetings will be at 6 p.m. Monday. Forest County’s meeting is 7 p.m. Tuesday, March ...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The state Department of Natural Resources says a survey conducted in January estimates that Michigan’s elk population has increased 5% since 2019. The aerial survey over eight days in January covered 1,080 square miles of sample plots across the northern Lower ...