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- Minnesota Cuffs & Collars: AI service not very accurate when it comes to fishing regulationsMinnesota cuffs and collars are field reports from DNR conservation officers. These reports are from the July 25, 2025, edition of Outdoor News. The post Minnes...
- Unexpected medical issue grounds Isle Royale wolf-moose surveyA last-minute medical issue grounded researchers’ annual wolf-moose survey on Isle Royale this past winter, marking yet another year that scientists have run ...
- Steve Carney: It’s OK to acknowledge the hatch of the bugs will winOne of the most frequent questions I get from anglers is how to deal with bug hatches. Bug hatches on our natural lakes are good things. This means the ecosyste...
- Minnesota Mixed Bag: DNR reminds bear hunters to buy licenses, check regulationsBear hunters who entered the lottery for bear-hunting licenses should watch their mail to see if they were selected for a license. The Minnesota DNR mailed post...
- Minnesota Letters to the Editor: Thanks for a taste of HemingwayReader-submitted letters to the editor published in the July 25, 2025, edition of Minnesota Outdoor News. The post Minnesota Letters to the Editor: Thanks for a...
- Conservationist’s legacy remembered at Minnesota wildlife management area dedicationSupporters gathered in May to dedicate a new state wildlife management area in Minnesota and to pay tribute to a conservation champion who lived by the mo...
- Steve Pollick: Working on, then handing down an old firearm that has long been in the familyEvery hunting and shooting family should have a legacy rifle, an arm treasured not for its market value but for its time in service across generations. My famil...
- Wisconsin DNR announces 2025 spring turkey season resultsThe Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) today announced preliminary totals for the 2025 spring turkey season. Wisconsin turkey hunters registered 50...
- Quail and Upland Game Alliance to host clay shooting competition at Rend Lake in IllinoisThe Quail and Upland Game Alliance will host a sporting clays shooting competition Aug. 2 at the Rend Lake Shooting Complex in Illinois. Youth age 16 and u...
- Carp deterrent design for Minnesota waters of the Mississippi will be decided by June 2026A little over a year after a $12 million carp deterrent project at the Mississippi River’s Lock and Dam 5 near Winona was approved by the Minnesota Legislatur...
- State Roundup: Lake Wisconsin, Wisconsin River part of outstanding sturgeon waters for upcoming hook-and-line seasonLake Wisconsin and the Wisconsin River up to the Wisconsin Dells dam was estimated in 2008 to have a population of 1,600 adult fish that are 50 inches or longer...
- Extreme cases of ‘swimmer’s itch’ in parts of Minnesota put mergansers in crosshairsDNR officials were faced with a decision: whether or not to allow the take – killing – of common mergansers on two Minnesota waters where lakeshore resident...
- Dan Ladd: What exactly defines ‘putting the time in’ for a hunter?One of the ongoing themes surrounding the crossbow debate many of us have been following these past two decades (and then some) is in relation to the amount of ...
- St. Patrick’s Day dye job doesn’t appear to bother Chicago River fishEach March, the Chicago River gets its annual St. Patrick’s Day dye job. This tradition attracts tens of thousands of revelers to the riverfront, but in recen...
- Patrick Durkin: Unpacking what Wisconsin grouse, pheasant numbers look like by regionEven the most casual upland bird hunters in Wisconsin figure out where to focus their efforts when reviewing DNR surveys on springtime pheasant and ruffed grous...