June 19, 2024

Beyond Minnesota: Rare white buffalo calf reported in Yellowstone

Minnesota, National News, Nature Page & Night Sky, News / Staff and News Reports

The reported birth of a rare white buffalo in Yellowstone National Park fulfills a Lakota prophecy that portends better times, according to members of the American Indian tribe.
The birth of the calf comes after a severe winter in 2023 drove thousands of Yellowstone buffalo to lower elevations. More than 1,500 were killed, sent to slaughter, or transferred to tribes seeking to reclaim stewardship over an animal their ancestors lived alongside for millennia.

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Steve Carney: Angling transition period in Minnesota, and new CDC regs affect dog owners

Fishing, Hunting, Minnesota, Opinion / Steve Carney

The new rules are aiming to prevent dogs with rabies from coming into the United States, but this ridiculous set of regulations has steps and “hoops” to jump through that you won’t believe. If you are unaware of these requirements, Fido gets left behind the border.

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Supreme Court strikes down ban on bump stocks

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The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday, June 14 struck down a Trump-era ban on bump stocks, the rapid-fire gun accessories used in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, in a ruling that threw firearms back into the nation’s political spotlight.
The high court’s conservative majority found that the Trump administration overstepped when it changed course from predecessors and banned bump stocks, which allow a rate of fire comparable to machine guns. The decision came after a gunman in Las Vegas attacked a country music festival with semi-automatic rifles equipped with the accessories.

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Minnesota Mixed Bag: Event at Bent Paddle Brewing to benefit the Boundary Waters set for July 5

Fishing, Hunting, Minnesota, Nature Page & Night Sky, News / Staff and News Reports

Sportsmen for the Boundary Waters has several events occurring this summer around its “Paddlin’ for the Boundary Waters” campaign. The group’s online auction already is underway and runs through Tuesday, July 2. All proceeds from the auction go directly to SFBW’s work to protect the pristine water and wildlife of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.

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Minnesota Letters to the Editor: High time to license fishing guides in Minnesota

Letters, Minnesota, Opinion / Minnesota Letters To The Editor

Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the June 21, 2024, edition of Minnesota Outdoor News.

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Minnesota’s Pro Fishing Tip of the Week: Fish in weeds for high-quality walleyes

Features, Fishing, Minnesota, National Fishing / Bruce Jean

If you’re looking for quality over quantity fish, fish the weedbeds in 10 to 14 feet of water. If the sun is bright and the breeze light, you might find walleyes in shallower areas of those weedbeds, about 7 to 10 feet.

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Minnesota’s statewide fishing report on June 19, 2024

Fishing Reports, Fishing Reports, Minnesota / Staff Report

Heavy rain, wind affecting when anglers able to fish. A look at the Minnesota fishing report from across the state on June 19, 2024.

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Record or not, giant pike caught in Minnesota’s Boundary Waters creates incredible memory

Featured, Fishing, Home Page News, Minnesota, National Fishing, National News, News / Brian Mozey

Jacob Skorloken, 39, of Merrifield, Minn., recalls going to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness with his father 21 years ago and catching his first fish in an area his family calls the “honey hole.”
Fast-forward to May 2024, when Skorloken, his father, and some friends visited the same honey hole during their 21st annual trip to the BWCAW. This time, Skorloken caught the biggest fish of his life.
And it might have been a state record for the longest catch-and-release northern pike. The only issue: Skorloken didn’t take complete measurements to confirm the length.

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Odd spring bodes well for early-summer anglers in Minnesota this year

Featured, Fishing, Home Page News, Minnesota, National Fishing, National News, News / Glen Schmitt

As Minnesota anglers transition into the summer fishing season, there still seems to be a hint of spring in the air – and water – with what’s going on as far as fish-producing angling patterns across the state.
Despite record early ice-out dates and an extremely warm March, much of April and May remained relatively cool. Now, into the third week of June and a little more than one month into the game-fish season, fish activity has been all over the place. It’s been quite a spring.

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Minnesota Mixed Bag: Event at Bent Paddle Brewing to benefit the Boundary Waters set for July 5

Minnesota Letters to the Editor: High time to license fishing guides in Minnesota

Minnesota’s Pro Fishing Tip of the Week: Fish in weeds for high-quality walleyes

Minnesota’s statewide fishing report on June 19, 2024

Record or not, giant pike caught in Minnesota’s Boundary Waters creates incredible memory

Odd spring bodes well for early-summer anglers in Minnesota this year

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