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June 19, 2025

Wisconsin, Minnesota DNRs tag adult walleyes on St. Louis River

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The Minnesota and Wisconsin departments of natural resources worked together to tag more than 13,000 adult walleyes on the St. Louis River this spring. The river forms part of the border between the two states. The tagging study is done every five years to determine the adult walleye population on the water body.
“We try to capture as many of the spawning stock as possible,” said Paul Piszczek, fisheries biologist with the Wisconsin DNR. “We try to capture fish from 13 inches to the low 30s to capture the whole range of spawning stock.”

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Outdoor Insights: Tributes in Minnesota as leadership is lost; and turmoil in Washington D.C.

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While local leaders honor Melissa Hortman’s thoughtful governance in Minnesota, federal lawmakers keep playing games with public lands.
Condolences to the family, friends, and colleagues of former speaker of the Minnesota House, Melissa Hortman. Although I’d met Hortman at a few events over the years, I’d never interviewed her in-depth. In terms of bill authorship, Hortman wasn’t closely involved in traditional outdoors issues at the Capitol, but insiders say she played a crucial leadership role in the passage of matters important to outdoors folks.

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Orphaned bear cubs are caught, taken to rehab in Minnesota

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When Thief River Falls-area DNR Conservation Officer Bobby Stringer received reports of a dead black bear in a ditch in Minnesota’s Kittson County, it wasn’t known if there were now orphaned cubs that needed to be tracked down.
“Nobody saw the bear cubs initially because the bear cubs weren’t (with the dead sow). And then as the week went by, a person observed two cubs with the (deceased) mother,” Stringer said. Once Stringer learned there were cubs that needed to be caught and perhaps transferred to a rehabilitation center, the clock started ticking to try capture them safely.

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Mike Schoonveld: Senate bill introduced to collect taxes on foreign-made hunting, fishing gear

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Several months ago I wrote a column with the title, “Who Funds Fisheries Programs.” It highlighted a report issued by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) about the difficulty of collecting excise taxes on foreign-made fishing tackle.   
Most anglers understand that each year the money spent on purchasing fishing licenses is what funds state fisheries agencies. I hope they do, anyway, but not so many understand that in many cases, their license dollars are actually used as “matching” funds to qualify for federal dollars from the Sportfishing Restoration Program.

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