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- Minnesota Letters to the Editor: Clean energy still a focus here, and elsewhere following federal bill’s passageReader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Aug. 15, 2025, edition of Minnesota Outdoor News. The post Minnesota Letters to the Editor: Clean energy...
- Minnesota’s Brown County Pheasants Forever earns 2025’s Outdoor Leaders AwardIf you’re a Minnesota pheasant hunter, consider yourself lucky to have the Brown County chapter of Pheasants Forever on the beat in south-central Minnesota. T...
- North Dakota places new restrictions on nonresident waterfowlers at the urging of resident huntersRon Nerva realized his out-of-state waterfowl-hunting plans were sliced in half Aug. 1. That’s when he read about changes to North Dakota’s rules for nonres...
- Wanted: Hunters to control deer numbers that are ‘decimating’ crops in southwest PennsylvaniaWashington County grain farmer Jim Lindley is cautiously optimistic that new and improved Pennsylvania Game Commission programs for agricultural producers will ...
- Outdoor Observations: Social media reaction sours experience of setting Michigan’s new flathead catfish recordWe live in a world heavily dependent upon social media. For many of our readers this is a far cry from how we grew up. It really wasn’t that long ago when you...
- MN Daily Update: Comment on wildlife management in the stateThe Minnesota DNR is asking for comments and conversation from the general public about wildlife management in the state. Listen here for details. The post MN D...
- Bob Gwizdz: How Lake Erie became a world class walleye fisheryGuys my age remember when Lake Erie was called the Dead Sea. It was an amalgam of industrial waste and sewage, so polluted that one of its tributaries – the C...
- Minnesota’s natural bear foods more ‘normal’ this summerThis year’s natural food landscape in Minnesota’s bear country is going to be a different animal from last year, as this season likely will return to a more...
- Commentary: Stocking hatchery trout over wild trout is always a bad ideaI recently testified at the Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission’s quarterly meeting. This is the first time I’ve been back to headquarters in seven years. I...
- Ohio’s outdoors trailblazers: Stories from the Wild Chip Hart’s 30 years in outdoor radioChip Hart’s outdoor radio program, The Big Outdoors on 700 WLW, was never intended to be a long-term project. However, 30 years after its inception on the “...
- Minnesota DNR denies petition to reject dog trialing at Keystone Woods Wildlife Management AreaIn June, a group of organizations led by the Minnesota Division of the Izaak Walton League of America filed a petition requesting the DNR not renew or extend th...
- Orleans County (N.Y.) Fishing Report – August 12, 2025Mixed bag chances are good, and there are definitely some big, mature kings coming over the gunwales. The post Orleans County (N.Y.) Fishing Report – Au...
- Diverse fishery brings anglers back to Big Seven Lake in Michigan’s Oakland CountySupporting healthy populations of largemouth bass and bluegills, and supplemented by a stocked walleye fishery, Oakland County’s Big Seven Lake provides varia...
- Michigan’s Outdoor CalendarA look at upcoming outdoors-related events from across Michigan published in the Aug. 15, 2025, edition of Outdoor News. The post Michigan’s Outdoor Calendar ...
- Michigan Cuffs & Collars: False claims on social media get an angler in troubleMichigan cuffs and collars are field reports from DNR Conservation Officers. These reports are from the Aug. 15, 2025, edition of Outdoor News. The post Michiga...