Bob Willging
Feature ContributorBob Willging is a freelance outdoor writer who specializes in writing about Wisconsin's tremendous outdoor and sporting heritage. He has written two books: "History Afield: Stories From the Golden Age of Wisconsin Sporting Life " and "On the Hunt: A History of Deer Hunting in Wisconsin." Willging lives in Rhinelander.
WXPR Contributor Bob Willging won 2nd place in the Best of Radio/Open Category for his Northernaire: Waldorf of the Wilderness story that was produced for WXPR and adapted from his book History Afield: Stories from the Golden Age of Wisconsin Sporting Life. The award comes from the Association of Great Lakes Outdoor Writers (AGLOW) Awards in Craft Competition.
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On a clear late November afternoon two days before the start of the Wisconsin deer season in 1937, Royal Nettleton, 29, a Nicolet National Forest junior… -
The nine day Wisconsin deer season opened on Saturday and across Wisconsin family and friends gathered at deer camps to pursue one of Wisconsin’s most… -
Many Wisconsin hunters are aware of the pheasant propagation program conducted at the state game farm in Poynette, which annually hatches thousands of… -
Saturday is opening day of Wisconsin’s annual gun deer season. For many families the hunt is about much more than taking a deer - it’s a time of family… -
It’s duck hunting season in the northwoods and while plenty of artificial decoys will be used by waterfowlers to lure birds within gun range one thing… -
The President of the United States endures a demanding schedule. But it wasn’t always this way. In today’s History Afield writer Bob Willging tells the… -
An outboard motor hung on the back of a well used fishing boat is an iconic symbol of summer in the Northwoods. For years in the Northcentral Wisconsin… -
It’s May and we’re still waiting for the ice to melt on most lakes in the Northwoods. Lake Superior is still about halfway iced over. But even when it’s… -
When the stock market crashed in late 1929, ushering in the Great Depression, the prosperity of the 1920’s screeched to a halt. As factories and mills… -
The resort industry in Northern Wisconsin goes back over 100 years to when tourists were first lured to the lake country on the heels of the lumberjacks.…
