ELF expands on New York State’s popular Regenerate NY Forestry Cost Share Grant Program and is designed to support the creation of new forests crucial for mitigating climate change, providing wildlife habitat, protecting air and water quality, and supplying timber, an important renewable resource.
Grants available to landowners to help establish large forests Read More »
Late fall muskies can be a feast or famine affair. On the one hand, fish are fairly predictable, and location narrows to a few key types of areas. Weighing against that? Feeding windows are equally narrow. Miss those opportunities, and you’ll mostly catch a chill.
Muskies to the bitter end Read More »
If you’ve been hunting Minnesota’s firearms deer season for any length of time, your seasons have probably run the full spectrum of outcomes. You’ve probably had that season during which a buck sauntered by in the first half hour and your season was done.
For late-season firearms success, you gotta make your own luck Read More »
I spent that night twisting and turning in bed trying to understand how I failed. The only thing I can think of is the large, hand warmer-type muff got in the way of my bowstring. It is strapped to my abdomen on a belt and I normally move the muff to my backside before drawing my bow.
Carney’s bowhunting follies of 2024 Read More »
Pittman-Robertson is funded by those who hunt and sport shoot via firearms sales, ammunition sales, and archery-related sales. Further, they should know enough about this law to implore members of Congress that this law must be left intact and not have its funds diverted – as Congress tends to do with so many funding sources.
Minnesota’s Federal and the company’s commitment to conservation funding Read More »
Locating grouse during December can be difficult since the birds are usually concentrated in small areas. Once found they are often wary and flush wild, making it difficult for a pointing dog, let alone for a hunter trudging through noisy, crusted snow.
Better in November and December: Wary Forest Bird Read More »
While other folks were giving their blaze-orange deer-hunting apparel a good wash in scent-reducing detergent, locating their ammo, and, in some cases sighting-in their guns (yes, I heard them), I was wandering the grasslands of southwestern Minnesota for three days last week in search of pheasants.
Hunting dogs seldom fail to amaze, and kudos to a CO Read More »
Regarding Tim Spielman’s Nov. 1 “Streams of Thought” column: Finally someone has brought attention to the topic of invasive European buckthorn. It’s long overdue. Every new growing season it is getting worse!.
Minnesota Outdoor News Letters to the Editor – November 13, 2024 Read More »
I stood on a rise overlooking a sweeping cattle ranch in west-central South Dakota. The Missouri River pulsed and churned not far away. A flock of regal pintails wheeled in the distant sapphire sky. A spectacular uprising of autumnal colors – hues of butterscotch, lemonade, crimson, and everything in between – blanketed the landscape.
For our Underappreciated Grasslands, we can do better Read More »
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