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State deer herd managers were pleasantly surprised that the spread of the always fatal chronic wasting disease apparently slowed during …

WILLIAMS, Minn. – The fish were in a bad mood, which affected me similarly. I probably swore even more than …

SIGOURNEY – Solid ice, warm weather and large, hungry fish. This is about as good as ice fishing gets, I …

This year – after an exceptionally long, dry and mild autumn – we finally got winter, with snow and subzero …

Cedar Rapids archer Eyad Yehyawi could have written an instruction manual for mastering the art of bowhunting. He could have …

During pheasant season I like to look at a wildlife print hanging on the wall in my living room. The …

If not for pleasant surprises – some might say luck – last week’s upland game bird hunt would have been …

LANSING — With the sun still hovering above the bluffs on the Iowa side of the Mississippi River, imparting an …

DELHI – Surveying the debris-strewn muck flats below the Lake Delhi dam shortly after its 2010 failure, I doubted I …

SIGOURNEY – Fishing farm ponds with Tom Monroe feels a little like cheating, but not so much that you can’t …

Organic farming is growing in Iowa almost as fast as the bane of chemical-free farmers — weeds. While pigweed and …

The pleasure afforded by the shade of the giant bur oak overhanging my garden is more than doubled these days …

A recent dinner in a pig barn underscored something I’ve long known but too often forget: There are good people …

Though Iowa’s agriculture-related pollution gets most of the attention — as it should, with an estimated 90 percent of the …

Plans are afoot to help increase local roadside ditches’ value as pollinator habitats. Such ditches ‘are a potential gold mine …