October 24, 2003

A total of 27,600 permits are available for the 2004 spring hunt, an increase of 2,584 (10.3 percent) over the 25,016 offered in 2003. Applications now are being accepted at any of the 1,800 ELS point-of-sale agents. There’s a $3 nonrefundable application fee. For an additional fee of $3.50, applications also can be made on […]

The program is available to all Minnesota school kids in grades K-12 and to home-schooled students. It’s modeled after the Federal Duck Stamp Program and gives students an opportunity to create a design for a stamp. The painting or drawing must be of a North American duck, goose, or swan. All entries are due by

Correspondent Cashton, Wis. Some days things go wrong, and the best plans go awry as a big buck is spooked by another animal or a breeze sends human scent in the wrong direction. Those things happen. But, sometimes things go just right even when they shouldn’t, and a day’s hunt ends with a “Cinderella” storybook

Editor Madison The rumblings of earn-a-buck seasons outside of the chronic wasting disease zones are growing louder as the October Zone T season approaches. DNR wildlife managers and Conservation Congress chairman Steve Oestreicher want to make sure deer hunters know that 31 units that are in Zone T this year could end up with earn-a-buck

Making predictions is always dangerous business. There are a lot of variables that can come into play and make your predictions look real bad. But I’ve “looked bad” often enough in my life that the prospect of it happening once again is something I no longer fear. So here is how I see deer season