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March 6, 2026

Minnesota study detects PFAS in deer liver, muscle tissue

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From 2021 to 2023, the Minnesota DNR, Minnesota Department of Health, and the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency tested white-tailed deer that live on or around sites with possible PFAS contaminants to discover if so-called “forever chemicals” might be found in muscle and liver tissue.
Both types of tissues were found to have varying levels of the environmental contaminant.

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Outdoor Insights: Wild deer for sale? Idea still deserves a hard pass

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A buddy sent me a link to a story that appeared in The Atlantic Monthly back in January.
Titled “Eat More Deer – America is letting good meat go to waste,” the piece advocated for allowing Americans to sell venison taken via legal hunting. As many readers know, the federal Lacey Act prohibited the commercial sale of wild game meat way back in 1900.

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Dave Maloney, Pa. lawmaker vocal on hunting, fishing issues, opting to leave ‘corruption of politics’

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A state legislator who has long been vocal on hunting and fishing issues and who has been a thorn in the side of the Pennsylvania Game Commission confirmed he will not seek re-election at the end of this year.
Berks County Republican Dave Maloney, who has served in the House since 2010 and was the minority chair of the Game and Fisheries Committee, said his decision not to run for a ninth term was based on his desire to leave a “corrupt” political system.

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Ryan Rothstein: A grab bag of late-winter outdoors observations from Minnesota

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I’m sure this isn’t unique to Minnesota, but I can’t help but notice as I get older how many “contentious” deer regulation changes we’ve had in our state over the past 20 years.
We saw antler-point restrictions come and go, and many deer hunters were sure these would be the death of our entire hunting tradition. Spoiler alert – that didn’t happen. To this day, the one that takes the cake for me was the drawn-out battle about scopes on muzzleloaders.

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A little learning about some little (but important) fish in Illinois

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Recently, I spent a day showing fourth-grade students the flora and fauna that live in or next to many of Illinois’ lakes. We looked at animal tracks in the mud on the shoreline, counted shells some creature (likely a raccoon) left behind after a nice meal of freshwater mussels, learned the names of the plants growing in the water and practiced identifying turtle species.
Every session started by looking around and calling out the things we saw.

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University of Illinois study traces illicit online amphibian trade

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There is a dark side to wildlife and amphibian trade, according to a recent study from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Devin Edmonds, a U of I herpetologist and lifelong frog collector, was curious, so he assembled a team to shine a light on the trade.
“At first, we wanted to figure out how many non-native amphibians are being bred and sold in the U.S., but quickly realized that data didn’t exist.”

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