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February 19, 2026

Reported wolf conflicts in Minnesota drop in 2025

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In 2025, the USDA- Wildlife Services verified wolf damage at 76 different locations and received a total of 185 complaints – down from 252 complaints in 2024. While last year’s total declined from 2024, the 2025 tally more closely aligns with the 10-year average of 188 complaints per year.
Similarly in line with the 10-year average, about 55% of the past year’s complaints were verified by the wildlife services’ team.

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Minnesota celebrates 75 years of wildlife management areas: ‘Save the Wetlands’ to 1.38M acres

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Beginning Friday at National Pheasant Fest and Quail Classic at the Minneapolis Convention Center, the Minnesota DNR will kick off its year-long 75th anniversary celebration of the state’s much-envied wildlife management area (WMAs) system – a program that began as a way to save wetlands in era of breakneck drainage.
State officials say the 75th anniversary celebration, which will include events across Minnesota throughout 2026, highlights a system that protects wildlife habitat for future generations, provides access for hunting, fishing, trapping and other outdoor recreation, and promotes wildlife-based tourism across the state.

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Gretchen Steele: Birds deal with politics, too – the feeder pecking order

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If you want to understand politics, family dynamics, or the delicate art of running a rural committee meeting, I strongly recommend spending a February afternoon watching a backyard bird feeder in Southern Illinois.
The recent winter storms have given me plenty of opportunities to be endlessly entertained by the feeder drama outside my window. Late winter is prime time.

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Outdoor Insights: What’s behind the disappearance of Minnesota’s jackrabbits?

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With Pheasant Fest this weekend in Minneapolis, everyone’s talking upland game.
When the annual August roadside report arrives from the Minnesota DNR, every upland bird hunters pores over the data, mostly focusing on ring-necked pheasants, which showed solid numbers going into autumn 2025. But there are other critters in the report, including gray partridge, mourning doves, cottontail rabbits, and – arguably the saddest story year after year – the white-tailed jackrabbit.

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Oak Duke: When to target the ‘honeymoon flats’ for whitetails

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Annually, like clockwork, in a small woodlot at the end of a steep ridge here in Western New York, a doe bedding phenomenon occurs ever since the lower spruce and ash began to die off where they had once choked a low flat.
Does, so harassed by bucks, dive under fallen trees, branches, and crisscrossed logs there, those impenetrable wooded messes so difficult to walk through… anywhere they can get away. Call it the Honeymoon Flats.

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Blue catfish gaining the attention of more and more Illinois anglers

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Few fish in Illinois have captured anglers’ attention like the blue catfish.
Known for its size, strength and toughness, blue cats have gone from being little-known river residents to top targets in cooling lakes and large reservoirs. As more anglers have become interested, DNR has also focused more on studying and managing them.

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Patrick Durkin: Citizens keep inspiring Aldo Leopold’s conservation ethic

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Tom Heberlein (r) organized the first “Lodi Reads Leopold” event in Wisconsin in March 2000. By 2004, with help from the Aldo Leopold Foundation (represented by Sarah Lloyd) and then Rep. Mark Miller (ctr), Wisconsin proclaimed the first weekend of March as “Leopold Weekend.

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