The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is investigating a fish kill at the South Branch of Lizard Creek in Fort Dodge in Cerro Gordo County, one county south of the Minnesota border.
Fish kill being investigated in northern Iowa stream Read More »
President Donald Trump’s administration acted to roll back environmental safeguards around future logging projects on more than half of U.S. national forests under an emergency designation announced Friday that cites dangers from wildfires.
Whether the move will boost lumber supplies as Trump envisioned in an executive order last month remains to be seen.
Trump administration rolls back forest protections Read More »
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the April 18, 2025, edition of Minnesota Outdoor News.
The Minnesota DNR has released more details regarding a wolf shot and killed in Fillmore County in early January.
DNR Enforcement’s incident report states that the kill is believed to have occurred around Jan. 2, 2025, when 21-year-old Lucas Heusinkveld shot a gray wolf that he thought was a coyote while he tended to a herd of cattle. Upon discovery that it was likely not a coyote, the carcass was disposed of in a ditch.
Details emerge in wolf case from southeast Minnesota Read More »
The Minnesota DNR has completed upgrades at the Madison Lake Public Water Access, located on the east side of Madison Lake, east of the city of Mankato in Blue Earth County. The project is among the more than 40 public water access sites slated for large-scale modernization efforts thanks to the Get Out MORE (Modernize Outdoor Recreation Experiences) initiative.
Minnesota DNR wraps up Madison Lake access project Read More »
Spring has arrived, and higher water temperatures will start to push crappies and bluegills into staging areas near their spawning grounds. But, not yet. For most lakes, it has only been a few weeks, or days, since ice-out, and the majority of panfish will be in the same spots where you caught them at late ice.
Pro Fishing Tip of the Week: Ready the jigs for panfish Read More »
Crappies remain more deep than shallow this week. Here’s a look at the Minnesota fishing report on April 16, 2025.
Minnesota’s statewide fishing report on April 16, 2025 Read More »
Rare “coaster” brook trout were discovered spawning in the shallows
WI Daily Update: Spawning by rare ‘coaster’ brook trout in Lake Superior a big milestone Read More »
A collaboration between Trout Unlimited and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s fisheries staff in Albany, and especially in Regions 4, 5 and 6, is helping open up more habitat for brook trout in Adirondack and Tug Hill region streams.
And more help for the official New York State fish is on the way.
New York culvert project expands Adirondack brook trout habitat Read More »
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