This year the Statesman Journal outdoors staff went diving into an underwater forest, skied during an extreme heat wave and ...

Jay Dee Nichols stamped and packed stiff willow branches between maple wood posts, with muffled crunches. At 63, the semi-retired handyman from the Wisconsin city of Black River Falls has ...

Lake Erie is also ice free right now, and the walleye are biting from Cleveland to Huron, where some of the largest walleye of the season are being caught this week.