Outdoor News
Earlier this year
- Minnesota’s statewide fishing report on April 30, 2025Panfish are still being found more deep than shallow. Here’s a look at the Minnesota fishing report on April 30, 2025. The post Minnesota’s statewide fishin...
- Minnesota Cuffs & Collars: Pilot flies proficiency flight for emergency proceduresMinnesota cuffs and collars are field reports from DNR conservation officers. These reports are from the May 2, 2025, edition of Outdoor News. The post Minnesot...
- Green Energy: Not in the faster-permitting mix?For years, proponents of green energy have argued that a slow, inefficient permitting process in the United States hinders a transition to clean sources of elec...
- 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 ...