BRAINERD, MINN. — Minnesotans with eyes and ears toward the outdoors likely know about the recent passing of Don (Duckman) Helmeke. Duckman had a passion for waterfowl -- in particular wood ducks -- ...

Millie Sutton, of Tyler, helps install a box for wood ducks to use for nesting at the Neches River National Wildlife Refuge near Jacksonville on Saturday. The Friends of the Neches River and ...

In the fall 2004 a working group that included the Pennsylvania Game Commission and the Harry Enstrom Chapter of the Izaak Walton League collaborated to develop a wetland along Whiteley Creek in ...

In honor of Earth Month—and Earth Day later this week—we’re celebrating the best way we know how: with a series of stories that are all about getting outside and getting your hands dirty to benefit ...

You've no doubt heard the saying "it takes a village to raise a child." I know from personal experience how powerful a supportive community can be to human development. The concept also applies to ...

WATCHUNG -- Fifth grade Girl Scout Troop #163 will install Wood Duck boxes at Best Lake 9 a.m. tomorrow, June 20. The boxes were made by the troop and their fathers and will be installed with the ...

ST. HELENA — Becoming an Eagle Scout is often a race against the clock as Scouts rush to earn badges and complete a service project before their 18th birthday. Alexandr Michalek of St. Helena’s Troop ...

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MONROE COUNTY, Ga. — December marks Georgia’s hunting season for various game animals, including ducks. While hunters gear up for the season, state wildlife agencies are busy preparing habitats for ...

The wood duck breeding season at the Cache Creek Nature Preserve was considered a “moderate success despite receding water levels, according to a new study done by Harnawaz Boparai and provided to the ...

If you were to argue that wood ducks are the most beautiful ducks on earth, you wouldn’t be wrong. They’re beauties, they just are. A recent tweet, not a quack, announced that a few of these birds had ...