It was an ordinary log from a paulownia tree, a seasoned slice of timber that, in another life, might have gone up in smoke in the fireplace of the Carson home in Havre de Grace. But Dan Carson had ...

No one was selling ruddy decoys. He figured he’d quickly create a few with cedar wood and use them to hunt. But it proved to be more difficult than he thought. Six months later, long after ...

WAUSAU - Growing up near the Mississippi River in northwestern Illinois, Mike Pierce of Wausau developed a deep and abiding fondness for duck hunting. First, it was calling that struck his fancy. His ...

It was an ordinary log from a paulownia tree, a seasoned slice of timber which, in another life, might have gone up in smoke in the fireplace of the Carson home in Havre de Grace. But Dan Carson had ...

EDINA, Minn. -- Doug Lodermeier was bursting with stories about Minnesota duck-decoy carvers. We were in Lodermeier's basement office in early December, thumbing through a computer copy of his new ...

Illinois decoy carver Pat Gregory holds one of his creations, standing next to a poster that explains his work as folk art -- both beautiful and useful. (Photo by Timothy Collins) If Ducks Unlimited ...

Duck hunters are cut from a rare cloth. The sport is expensive and time consuming, pushing marriages and work to their brink, and the birds we pursue move best in the very conditions that keep most ...

The eyes of the waterfowl world will be on Stevens Point on Sept. 15 and 16 as UW-Stevens Point hosts the 2017 Federal Duck Stamp Art Competition and other activities, including the Wisconsin ...

Leonard Rousseau of Kneeland recently won the World Championship title in the decorative decoy pairs division at this year’s 48th annual Ward World Championship Wildfowl Carving and Art Festival in ...

ASTORIA, Ore. — As the fall season gets underway, migratory flocks of ducks and geese will soon fill the Oregon skies. This week, we travel to where the ducks and geese are always at hand — because ...