Minnesota Letters to the Editor: Sharing a classic ‘first day of issue’ with fellow readers
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the July 5, 2024, edition of Minnesota Outdoor News.
July 3, 2024
Who will partake in this year’s Minnesota governor’s deer opener event?
The 2024 Governor’s Deer Hunting Opener in Minnesota is about four months away, but planning for the annual event that highlights the state’s deer-hunting tradition recently began.
This year’s firearms deer season opens Nov. 9. Last year’s Governor’s Deer Hunting Opener featured a two-day schedule of events in southeastern Minnesota with part of the focus aimed at listening sessions and recruiting new hunters, as well as highlighting the importance of hunting and fishing to conservation efforts in the state. The location for the 2024 event has not been announced, but plans are focusing on a general region of the state.
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Dan Small Outdoors Radio: Show 1927
Sheboygan is hot right now on Lake Michigan for king
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Bob Gwizdz: Is it time for a hunting, fishing license fee increase in Michigan?
You might not have heard much about it as the players are holding their cards pretty close to the vest, but the topic of potential license fee increases for Michigan hunters and fishermen is the talk of the conservation set in Lansing.
The Department of Natural Resources quietly is discussing the issue internally as well as with some conservationists. We all knew it was coming. Have you noticed the difference in the price of, say, a pickup truck in the past decade?
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WI Daily Update: Great event on July 5 to benefit the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness
Sportsmen for the Boundary Waters is hosting its biggest event
New law in Minnesota targets invasive ‘jumping’ worms
They slither like a snake and frequently exhibit peculiar behavior when disturbed, often bouncing erratically and secreting a yellow mucus. They have a light-colored head that extends around their body and resembles a common nightcrawler, the iconic fishing bait sold at shops across Minnesota.
They’re called jumping worms, and they’re an invasive, nonnative earthworm that state officials say is detrimental to soil health, native forest plants and, by extension, some fish and wildlife. Starting July 1, the sale and possession of jumping worms was prohibited in Minnesota.
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MN Daily Update: Tips for celebrating Fourth of July on state lands
The Minnesota DNR has some tips for celebrating the Fourth
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Ben Moyer: Still water and sunfish offer fun fly-fishing lessons
I have been thinking about fly-fishing. That’s likely due to going on a couple of trips recently with people whose skills exceed my own.
Visions of their smooth and effortless casting keep surfacing in my head. Is such grace, I wonder, the result of perfectly matched rod, line, leader and fly? Or is that angler’s muscle-memory simply better coordinated than mine?
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