Hunting News
Earlier this year
- Minnesota’s ‘A’ and ‘B’ turkey season harvests contend with record numbers from 2024This year’s spring turkey harvest in Minnesota is neck-and-neck as a contender to match or beat last year’s record spring harvest. The total number of turke...
- Minnesota Mixed Bag: Bear hunt lottery applications due FridayA total of 4,605 licenses are available across the 15 quota areas where licenses are limited for the 2025 season, which opens Monday, Sept. 1, and closes Sunday...
- Minnesota Letters to the Editor: Ducks come up losers to walleyes, lake homeownersReader-submitted letters to the editor published in the May 2, 2025, edition of Minnesota Outdoor News. The post Minnesota Letters to the Editor: Ducks come up ...
- Commentary: Value of public lands is enhanced by conservation. Here’s what that meansThe U.S. federal public land estate is an American legacy the Boone and Crockett Club will support forever. Since our founding in 1887, whenever the suggestion ...
- Minnesota anglers await push of steelies along North ShoreThe spring steelhead run along the North Shore of Lake Superior in Minnesota has begun in earnest, with stream temperatures finally hitting the magic 40-degree ...
- Audit report delves into Minnesota DNR’s land acquisition reporting deficienciesWhile generally satisfied with the process by which the DNR acquires land in Minnesota and which lands are acquired, so-called stakeholders – landowners, part...
- New York’s 2025 Great Lakes Preview: Lake Ontario is a salmon angler’s ‘kingdom’On Lake Ontario, Chinook salmon is the “king” of this Great Lake. When you add in the other popular species of salmonids like Coho salmon, brown trout, lake...
- MN Daily Update: Utilize the Dubuque Rig on the Mississippi RiverThis Mississippi River guide says the water is low but the bite is heating up on the river in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Here’s how he’s catching walleyes, sa...
- DEC biologist honored by New York Wildlife Society chapterNew York State Department of Environmental Conservation Wildlife Biologist Josh Stiller received the “Outstanding Professional Award” from the New York Chap...
- Wisconsin state parks celebrating 125 yearsThe Wisconsin state park system will celebrate 125 years in existence at Interstate Park Sept. 20. Many other parks will have celebrations throughout the year. ...
- WI Daily Update: Utilize the Dubuque Rig on the Mississippi RiverThis Mississippi River guide says the water is low but the bite is heating up on the river in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Here’s how he’s catching walleyes, sa...
- Patrick Durkin: Nonresidents can’t carry Wisconsin’s license burdenWisconsin last raised its nonresident hunting and fishing license fees in 2023, but we haven’t had the spine to raise resident fees since 2005. Instead, most ...
- Black vulture depredation permits again available for Illinois farmersAbove: A “wake” of black vultures feeds on a dead animal in an Illinois farm field. Right: A map depicting the home range of black vultures in Illinois. The...
- Walleye season opens May 3 on Iowa’s Great LakesThe 150th walleye fishing season officially opens May 3rd at Iowa's Spirit Lake, East and West Okoboji lakes. “A very robust and healthy walleye population wa...
- Orleans County (N.Y.) Fishing Report – April 29, 2025One tactic for brown trout anglers is to work the stained Oak River plume when everything else is clear. The post Orleans County (N.Y.) Fishing Report – April...