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August 13, 2025

Minnesota’s natural bear foods more ‘normal’ this summer

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This year’s natural food landscape in Minnesota’s bear country is going to be a different animal from last year, as this season likely will return to a more normal supply of natural bear forage.
“In the northern half of the state, certainly a night-and-day difference from last year. Last year, we had one of the worst food years on record,” said Andy Tri, the DNR’s bear project leader.

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Commentary: Stocking hatchery trout over wild trout is always a bad idea

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I recently testified at the Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission’s quarterly meeting. This is the first time I’ve been back to headquarters in seven years. I repeated what former director Ralph Abele once said at his retirement dinner at my retirement dinner in 2018 – “I’ll be hovering above the clouds and swoop down when necessary.”
The board is proposing a study to re-stock Freeman Run, a wild brown trout stream in Potter County.

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Ohio’s outdoors trailblazers: Stories from the Wild Chip Hart’s 30 years in outdoor radio

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Chip Hart’s outdoor radio program, The Big Outdoors on 700 WLW, was never intended to be a long-term project.
However, 30 years after its inception on the “nation’s radio station,” The Big Outdoors is still going strong, airing at 5 a.m. on Saturday mornings, the perfect drive time for hunters and anglers alike. Hart, 68, and The Big Outdoors story starts in 1993.

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