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September 25, 2024

Habitat is the focus of Minnesota DNR’s draft pheasant, duck plans

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The Minnesota DNR is taking public comments on updated versions of the state’s duck and pheasant action plans – documents that will help guide the management of the popular game species during the next five years beginning in 2025.
All public comments must be submitted by 4:30 p.m. on Oct. 8 (see instructions below). The five-year action plans, which outline short-term strategies to help meet longer-term conservation goals, enable the DNR and its conservation partners to more frequently assess and adjust activities to changing habitat conditions that affect both ducks and pheasants.

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Legacy of USA Clay Target League founder Jim Sable lives on after his death at age 85

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Jim Sable, the man who reshaped the future of gun clubs around the country by making the sport more accessible to youth through the USA Clay Target League, died Sunday, Sept. 22, at the age of 85. Sable was the 2019 Outdoor News Person of the Year.
“Jim was a visionary … and to see both of our wheels turning at the same time to see what this organization was going to be like – not only in its early days, but what we [were] going to do in our later days,” said John Nelson, current president of the USA Clay Target League and long-time friend of Sable.

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Protection of lake whitefish part of proposed fishing regulations presented to Michigan NRC

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At its September meeting in Lansing, the Michigan Natural Resources Commission was presented with several proposed fishing regulations ranging from protection of whitefish and sturgeon to size reductions for bass and pike in some lakes and an increase in the muskie size limit in others.

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Per usual, opening-weekend waterfowl results varied around Minnesota

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Adam Kleinschmidt almost didn’t go duck hunting.
“Based on my scouting, I didn’t see many ducks around,” said Kleinschmidt, a waterfowl hunter and Minnesota DNR wetlands specialist. “I almost slept in.”
Almost. Kleinschmidt went. It was the duck opener, after all. By 6 a.m. he was setting decoys on a large permanent marsh on public land in Stearns County.

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A quick chat with Jon Steigerwaldt of the Ruffed Grouse Society/American Woodcock Society

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With small game seasons underway, Outdoor News sat down with Jon Steigerwaldt, the forest conservation director for the Great Lakes/Upper Midwest region of the Ruffed Grouse Society/American Woodcock Society.
Steigerwaldt is knee-deep in issues affecting grouse and woodcock in the past, while looking to the future regarding the ongoing challenge of managing habitat for these two iconic North American game birds.

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Two black bears relocated from Upper Peninsula’s Grand Island

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In response to conflicts between black bears and visitors to Grand Island near Munising, Mich., a pair of black bears recently were live trapped and moved to the mainland. One of the bears was a small one that appeared to be a 1.5-year-old yearling and the other was an adult estimated to weigh 250 pounds.
“One of the bears that was removed from the island had gotten seven backpacks,” said an employee at the Grand Island Ferry who wished to remain anonymous.

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