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- States debate the credit card tracking of gun-related salesBeginning July 1, a California law required credit card networks like Visa and Mastercard to provide banks with special retail codes that can be assigned to gun...
- Minnesota Letters to the Editor: State and nation too slow to respond to CWD threatReader-submitted letters to the editor published in the July 12, 2024, edition of Minnesota Outdoor News. The post Minnesota Letters to the Editor: State and na...
- Outdoor Insights: A $235 million plan to kill half a million barred owls to save spotted owlsEvery Minnesota hunter has heard the barred owl’s distinctive “who cooks for you!?” call. This week’s Beyond Minnesota section details a federal plan to...
- Beyond Minnesota: To save spotted owls, officials plan to kill thousands of barred owls in West Coast forestsTo save the imperiled spotted owl from potential extinction, U.S. wildlife officials are embracing a contentious plan to deploy trained shooters into dense West...
- Minnesota’s Pro Fishing Tip of the Week: Be willing to move for walleyesIf you’re looking to put some walleyes on your boat deck, it might require hitting numerous certain spots. With water clarity off the charts on many lakes, we...
- Minnesota’s statewide fishing report on July 10, 2024Main-lake structure and deep weeds producing walleyes. Here’s a look at the Minnesota fishing report from across the state on July 10, 2024. The post Minnesot...
- Minnesota wildlife officials dread the toll spring rains took on pheasantsScott Roemhildt has a June tradition of pheasant-watching as he drives to work. Cup of coffee in hand, he takes the “long way” to the office as he drives sl...
- Warren County, New York, introduces bass in attempt to counter invasive goldfish near Lake GeorgeGoldfish may look harmless in your child’s aquarium, but released into a watershed, those cute little orange fish can cause major problems for native species ...
- MN Daily Update: Take advantage of some fun carp-catching actionThere are many lakes full of carp, and catching them can be a blast. Here are some secrets to taking advantage of this opportunity. The post MN Daily Update: Ta...
- Patrick Durkin: 28 boating fatalities in 2023 sets Wisconsin recordWisconsin set a tragic record in 2023 when 28 people died while enjoying the state’s lakes and rivers by fishing, hunting, paddling, jet-skiing, waterskiing o...
- What anglers and boaters need to know about Harmful algal blooms in New York watersHarmful algal blooms, referred to by most as simply HABs, seem to be more and more prevalent as we come to understand them. It seems to be a work in progress ...
- WI Daily Update: Take advantage of some fun carp-catching actionThere are many lakes full of carp, and catching them can be a blast. Here are some secrets to taking advantage of this opportunity. The post WI Daily Update: Ta...
- Iowa DNR offering program for those interested in learning to trapThe Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is offering a program to teach skills needed to trap furbearers to people with little to no trapping experience. ...
- Alewives washing up on North Shore of Lake Michigan ‘no comparison’ to 1967Twas’ the great alewife invasion of 2024 … well, not really. In June, many beaches along Lake Michigan’s North Shore saw an influx of dead alewives, linin...
- Search and Rescue volunteers join Oswego, Onondaga county units in New YorkSixteen new recruits recently completed the Oswego/Onondaga County Search and Rescue Training Academy and are now qualified to participate in wilderness search ...