Top topics on Outdoor News Radio this week include a Minnesota deer opener recap with Managing Editor Rob Drieslein and Editor Tim Spielman, plus the Trump administration’s decision to not update a federal wolf plan. Then Dawn Reding from Luther College in Iowa joins the show to talk about bobcat research she has underway in the Driftless area of four states. Aaron Murphy with America Hunters and Anglers shares his group’s concerns with U.S. Sen. Mike Lee’s Border Lands Conservation Act. Tim Lesmeister and Drieslein wrap up the show with chatter on the 50th anniversary of the loss of the Edmund Fitzgerald, plus Colorado wolves, and whitefish as a sportfish.
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Episode 566 – Firearms deer opener recap, bluff country bobcats, troublesome border legislation, Lake Superior shipwrecks
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