Yet another mild winter could aid Minnesota’s turkeys, pheasants

Looking back on the 2024-25 winter, turkeys and pheasants mostly didn’t get pounded by either low temperatures or heavy snowfall amounts. That positive news likely will lead to promising hunting seasons – the former this spring and the latter this fall.
“It’s the combination of the two (cold and snow) that really gets to them. So the fact that we never really had huge snow loads and didn’t really have the super cold to go with it – I think they did really well for the most part,” said Nate Huck, DNR resident game bird specialist.

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