Eric Bergfelt of Warrendale, Penn., waited until the doe was at the right range and broadside to his position. He squeezed the trigger and sent a crossbow bolt through the soft muscle behind its shoulder.

It was another successful archery hunt earlier this month in Allegheny County, another opportunity for him to teach his son Jacob, 7, about ...Read more

STETATTLE CREEK, North Cascades — Bubbles tumbled and danced on the surface of this creek as stones interrupted the flow of the aquamarine water, once home to spring Chinook and steelhead, below the bank where Scott Schuyler and his daughter Janelle walked in early November.

Stetattle was derived from stəbtabəl' (stub-tahb-elh), or grizzly ...Read more

When I first saw the photo sent to me by a reader of Ted Williams, the late great Boston Red Sox slugger, standing alongside nearly 40 drake mallards and a dozen or so pheasants — all apparently felled near the Twin Cities — I wondered what the weather was like in Minnesota 81 years ago this week.

Published Sunday, Nov. 22, 1942, in the old...Read more

Derek Banovetz is 39 years old, grew up in Ely and has been hunting deer not far from that northeast Minnesota town since he was a kid.

"Years ago we'd drive into town to get something to eat on opening weekend of deer season and the bars and restaurants were packed,'' Banovetz said. "This year we went into town on opening weekend and no one ...Read more

The world's largest group of ornithologists announced Nov. 1 that it would begin work renaming 70 to 80 North American bird species named for people — some deemed racist, exclusionary, or implying "ownership of an entire species by one human." The project begins next year.

It's a contentious decision anticipated by the top University of ...Read more

In waters just outside of San Diego, a shiver of juvenile white sharks has established a nursery, swimming below surfers, paddleboarders and others, usually unnoticed.

In October, Jack Elstner, a doctoral student at UCSD’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, partnered with three researchers from Cal State Long Beach’s Shark Lab to tag the ...Read more

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On Tuesday, through the kitchen window of his home near Brainerd, Bill Marchel watched a pair of chickadees and a blue jay peck at a block of hardened deer tallow and fat he had placed on one of five bird feeders in his backyard.

The suet was a byproduct of a deer, a buck, he had arrowed on Oct. 29. A wildlife photographer, ...Read more

GARRISON, Minn. — You hear it all the time about Mille Lacs: if you go there in November before the water turns to ice, the fish gods reward you with big walleyes. Muskies, too.

We put those tantalizing tales to the test late last week, confirming that the big lake gives up great, golden walleyes after Halloween.

"It feels like we're ...Read more

A highly contagious, fatal disease that was first detected in Idaho deer in 2021 has spread to a new part of the state, Idaho Department of Fish and Game officials announced last week.

A mule deer killed by a hunter in Game Management Unit 32A near McCall tested positive for chronic wasting disease, a neurological condition that affects members...Read more

Kaohly Vang Her remembers waiting as a little girl for the hunters to come home.

"Can I come?" she would ask her father, as the elders dressed the deer in the garage. Hunting was an important part of Hmong culture — a source of nourishment for the body and soul, a chance to reconnect with nature.

"My dad would say, 'No, just the men go,'" ...Read more

SEWARD, Alaska — Just a few office lights illuminated the table covered in PVC pipe and towels where a northern sea otter pup suckled a bottle of formula in Halley Werner's hands.

Between feeds in the dimness, the tiny puffball spent its time sleeping, playing with toys and swimming in a small enclosure.

The pup is alternately known to ...Read more

Children were playing in their driveway in suburban Luzerne County on a sunny day in May. At ages 14 months and 5 years, they were momentarily unsupervised when the parent heard an unsettling cry.

Outside, a black bear stood over the kids, swatting and biting at their arms and legs. The attack lasted seconds before the animal was chased from ...Read more

University of Minnesota researchers remain interested in the messy and, perhaps, offputting markings of a deer hunt: a gut pile.

The Offal Wildlife Watching project team wants hunters, after field-dressing their deer, to set up trail cameras for a month at the sites, which have become a window into the world of scavengers.

Over five hunting ...Read more

LAKE CHRISTINA, MINN. – The other evening, as the sun set over this 4,000-acre shallow body of water that straddles Grant and Douglas counties, Will Smith, Dan Gahlon and I were surrounded by ghosts, watching ducks.

In the middle of the lake, redhead ducks mixed with ringnecks, scattered among which were canvasbacks, while small flights of ...Read more

A bear attacked a security guard last month in the kitchen of the St. Regis Aspen Resort in Aspen, Colo.

The guard was treated for scratches on his back and later released from the hospital, but Colorado Parks and Wildlife officers were unable to safely capture the bear, according to a news release.

The security guard had been investigating ...Read more