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November 25, 2025

Minnesota’s Bluffland Whitetails Association alerts membership to leadership change amid investigation

The southeast Minnesota deer-hunting advocacy group Bluffland Whitetails Association has ended its affiliation with its longtime president, Taylor Bestor, as an investigation of alleged financial irregularities unfolds.
Members received an email early this week informing them that the group’s board had learned about the financial issue and that “BWA is pausing all organizational activities indefinitely until this irregularity is resolved.”

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New York’s rut tracker: A second chance in late November, early December

There are unbred does (or those that didn’t take. Deer farmers report that upwards of 50% of natural (vs. artificial insemination) conceptions fail. Does that had late, nursing fawns, and 3.20%+ doe fawns, depending upon the quality of the habitat according to research where in the Midwest, 50% of doe fawns cycle a month after their mothers and aunts.

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New York’s Essex County shutting down century old fish hatchery

Essex County and the New York Department of Environmental Conservation jointly announced in early November that the Essex County Fish Hatchery is going to cease operations, the result of concerns about wastewater released by the century-old hatchery that will likely impact trout stocking in a number of high-profile trout waters in the county.

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