MN Daily Update: An odd 2024 duck season
It has been an odd duck season, with ducks here
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November 1, 2024
Commentary: Solutions to unlocking millions of acres of ‘landlocked’ public lands
Across 20 U.S. states, there are 16.4 million acres of public land that are effectively off-limits to the public. In Minnesota and Wisconsin alone, there are over 300,000 inaccessible public acres, meaning there isn’t a legal way for Americans to reach these places – to hike, hunt, camp, forage, or fish – without trespassing on private property.
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Veterans can shoot for free on Nov. 10 at Ohio public ranges
In honor of Veterans Day, the Ohio DNR (ODNR) Division of Wildlife invites veterans to visit and shoot for free at one of Ohio’s premier public shooting ranges on Sunday, Nov. 10. The shooting range permit requirement is waived for veterans on all Division of Wildlife Class A, B, and C shooting ranges for that day.
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Iowa trappers to be met by low water levels when furbearer season begins Nov. 2
Iowa’s furbearer season opens Saturday, Nov. 2 and the outlook for trappers is positive – most species populations are steady, and there are some early indications wild fur pelt prices could be trending up this winter.
The challenge, however, could be that fewer marshes and streams have good water levels.
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Oak Duke: When is it time to move deer stands during the season?
I hate moving a treestand during the hunting season. And no, it’s not the work, the sweat, or even the lost hunting time that I mind most. Sometimes re-hanging a stand right in prime time is a necessary evil for deer hunters.
When I move a treestand in season, the existential reality is that it almost always cascades a negative, disrupting effect on the local whitetails…exactly those deer that I hope to superimpose with my pins or crosshairs.
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Dean Bortz: Wisconsin-made .45 air rifle claims first big game animal
When Gov. Tony Evers signed the “air gun” bill, Wisconsin Act 115, into law in March, it was only a matter of time before someone used an air-powered shotgun to shoot a turkey, since the spring turkey season opened right on the heels of the bill signing.
But a deer, bear or elk? Well, Don Fitzmaurice, of Milton, has the distinction of being the first person – as far as we know – in Wisconsin to shoot a big game animal with an air rife.
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