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- Comments sought on what LCCMR should fund in Minnesota in 2026Until Sunday, Dec. 1, Legislative-Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources will accept feedback on its new strategic plan and the types of projects it’ll sup...
- Minnesota Mixed Bag: St. Paul Ice Fishing Show kicks off Dec. 6The 2024 St. Paul Ice Fishing and Winter Sports Show begins Dec. 6 and continues through Dec. 8 at St. Paul RiverCentre. Just in time for this year’s ice-fish...
- Minnesota Letters to the Editor: With wind-power development issue, it is indeed a raceReader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Nov. 29, 2024, edition of Minnesota Outdoor News. The post Minnesota Letters to the Editor: With wind-po...
- Streams of Thought: How can conservation – easements, etc. – compete with wind projects? Or can it?At the successful completion of a pheasant hunt in Murray County, Minn., just a few weeks ago, I sat on the tailgate of the Chevy and admired the blaze of a sun...
- University of Minnesota study shows zebra mussels tied to elevated fish mercuryThe University of Minnesota researchers seeking to understand what walleyes and yellow perch eat in near-shore ecosystems on zebra mussel-infested lakes didn’...
- Minnesota CWD cases are up, but remain in known zonesAs of Tuesday, Nov. 26, there were 42 new confirmed cases of chronic wasting disease in hunter-harvested deer in 2024 and 34 suspected cases – all in known-CW...
- WI Daily Update: State natural areas volunteer of the year honoredThe Wisconsin DNR recently named its state natural areas volunteer of the year. Here’s who he is. The post WI Daily Update: State natural areas volunteer of t...
- Steve Piatt: Hunting deer, and dodging them with the truck, on trips to Pa.I was pretty confident I’d kill a deer this season, especially as the whitetail rut kicked into high gear. I just wasn’t sure whether it would be with my cr...
- Ralph Loos: ‘Somebody, somewhere may have broken the law hunting ducks’One advantage of still putting out a print newspaper is being able to avoid topics with questionable news value by simply shaking my head and mumbling, “We’...
- Fall gun hunters take 292 turkeys in IllinoisHunters in Illinois harvested 292 wild turkeys during the 2024 fall firearms season, up a tick or two from the 262 birds taken in 2023. The 2022 fall firearms h...
- MN Daily Update: Winter walleye regs on Mille Lacs, Upper Red announcedThe Minnesota DNR recently announced the walleye limits for the winter season on two popular state waters — Mille Lacs and Upper Red Lake. Here are the detail...
- Project on ‘understudied yet essential’ sucker took birding approach to studying fishFish in the sucker family appear to be, well, “suckers” for a specific range of water temperature that triggers spawning migration. Specifically, an increas...
- Wardens at Work: Wisconsin man fined $10,407 for poached Grant Co. buckWisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Iowa County Conservation Warden Mike Burns was a bit perplexed regarding a headless deer carcass in Grant County...
- Purdue University study aims to obtain better deer estimates in IndianaWildlife managers in states across the Midwest have long struggled to estimate populations of deer, turkeys, and coyotes. A five-year study by Purdue University...
- ‘Remarkable’ comeback complete, Lake Superior lake trout will provide fish to stock Minnesota’s inland lakesFor the first time in history, the Minnesota DNR is planning to use lake trout from Lake Superior as broodstock to meet stocking quotas on inland lakes in north...