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Mushroom season starts with the finding of the first morel, which for me happened Thursday — my latest first find …

The key to turkey hunting success, according to Department of Natural Resources forest wildlife research biologist Jim Coffey, is positioning …

Construction is expected to begin later this year on a project intended to reduce flood impacts and improve water quality …

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 …