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- Minnesota’s fishing and hunting report on Nov. 27, 2024Not enough to walk on, but ice has started to form. A look at the Minnesota fishing and hunting report on Nov. 27, 2024. The post Minnesota’s fishing and hunt...
- Minnesota Cuffs & Collars: Landowner fails to remove skunk from trap because he didn’t want to get sprayedMinnesota cuffs and collars are field reports from DNR conservation officers. These reports are from the Nov. 29, 2024, edition of Outdoor News. The post Minnes...
- Is it ever too cold to hunt your dog? The answer involves many factorsA few weeks ago, sipping black coffee at my desk around 6 a.m., an email dropped into my inbox from an address I didn’t recognize. It was from a reader who li...
- Steve Carney: A well-deserved bow buck, and a great Minnesota fall walleye biteMy longtime hunting buddy, Paul Schutte, of Annandale, Minn., just celebrated his 70th birthday. He almost didn’t reach this milestone after he suffered a maj...
- Comments sought on what LCCMR should fund in Minnesota in 2026Until Sunday, Dec. 1, Legislative-Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources will accept feedback on its new strategic plan and the types of projects it’ll sup...
- Minnesota Mixed Bag: St. Paul Ice Fishing Show kicks off Dec. 6The 2024 St. Paul Ice Fishing and Winter Sports Show begins Dec. 6 and continues through Dec. 8 at St. Paul RiverCentre. Just in time for this year’s ice-fish...
- Minnesota Letters to the Editor: With wind-power development issue, it is indeed a raceReader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Nov. 29, 2024, edition of Minnesota Outdoor News. The post Minnesota Letters to the Editor: With wind-po...
- Streams of Thought: How can conservation – easements, etc. – compete with wind projects? Or can it?At the successful completion of a pheasant hunt in Murray County, Minn., just a few weeks ago, I sat on the tailgate of the Chevy and admired the blaze of a sun...
- University of Minnesota study shows zebra mussels tied to elevated fish mercuryThe University of Minnesota researchers seeking to understand what walleyes and yellow perch eat in near-shore ecosystems on zebra mussel-infested lakes didn’...
- Minnesota CWD cases are up, but remain in known zonesAs of Tuesday, Nov. 26, there were 42 new confirmed cases of chronic wasting disease in hunter-harvested deer in 2024 and 34 suspected cases – all in known-CW...
- WI Daily Update: State natural areas volunteer of the year honoredThe Wisconsin DNR recently named its state natural areas volunteer of the year. Here’s who he is. The post WI Daily Update: State natural areas volunteer of t...
- Steve Piatt: Hunting deer, and dodging them with the truck, on trips to Pa.I was pretty confident I’d kill a deer this season, especially as the whitetail rut kicked into high gear. I just wasn’t sure whether it would be with my cr...
- Ralph Loos: ‘Somebody, somewhere may have broken the law hunting ducks’One advantage of still putting out a print newspaper is being able to avoid topics with questionable news value by simply shaking my head and mumbling, “We’...
- Fall gun hunters take 292 turkeys in IllinoisHunters in Illinois harvested 292 wild turkeys during the 2024 fall firearms season, up a tick or two from the 262 birds taken in 2023. The 2022 fall firearms h...
- MN Daily Update: Winter walleye regs on Mille Lacs, Upper Red announcedThe Minnesota DNR recently announced the walleye limits for the winter season on two popular state waters — Mille Lacs and Upper Red Lake. Here are the detail...