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Colleen Foehrenbacher

Colleen Foehrenbacher: Urban bowhunting offers unique opportunity with potential for problem-solving required

Featured, Features, Home Page News, Hunting, Minnesota, National Hunting /

Every time I load the truck and drive the 55 minutes to bowhunt urban deer in Rochester, Minn., I’m filled with giddy excitement and an equal pit in my stomach from nerves.
The excitement comes from the almost-guarantee that I’ll have multiple deer encounters during my hunt, with the potential for something really exciting to walk past. The nerves come from the immense pressure to make a good shot, given that I hunt small, neighborhood properties. My No. 1 goal as a hunter is always to make an ethical kill shot. That pressure is amplified immensely when I’m literally hunting in people’s back and front yards.

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Colleen Foehrenbacher: How to build better hunters before opening day

Featured, Features, Home Page News, Hunting, Minnesota, National Hunting /

It’s easy to get caught up in summer adventures and forget that fall hunting seasons are quickly approaching. For those planning to introduce a new hunter to the field this fall, youth or adult, now is the time to begin building the skills and confidence needed for a positive experience.
Hunting is a hands-on activity that requires situational awareness, coordination, and practice. It also carries inherent risks involving firearms, elevated hunting positions, and rugged terrain. Here are some suggestions for helping the newer hunter in your life build confidence, develop skills, and enjoy a successful introduction to the hunting tradition.

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Colleen Foehrenbacher: Building conservationists beyond the classroom

Featured, Features, Fishing, Home Page News, Hunting, Minnesota, National Fishing, National Hunting, Nature Page & Night Sky /

Over the past few years I’ve listened to dozens of podcasts discussing concerns about the future of hunting, fishing, and shooting sports. Hunters today represent a smaller share of the population than they did a generation ago, and recruitment and retention remain ongoing challenges.
At the same time, we’re seeing efforts in places like Oregon with the “PEACE Act” ballot initiative that could fundamentally reshape the future of hunting and fishing.

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Colleen Foehrenbacher: A complicated relationship with bowfishing

Featured, Features, Fishing, Home Page News, Minnesota, National Fishing /

I have a complicated relationship with bowfishing.
There’s a lot about it that I love: the excitement, the fast pace, the chance to see the underwater world illuminated at night and the challenge of identifying your target and actually hitting something. But there are also aspects I struggle with: the waste of a life if the fish isn’t eaten, late nights, loud motors, and bright lights involved in the sport.

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Colleen Foehrenbacher: Three reasons I’m obsessed with chasing gobblers

Featured, Features, Home Page News, Hunting, Minnesota, National Hunting /

If you head into the woods to chase turkeys on a spring morning in southeast Minnesota where I live you’ll likely hear gobbles echoing from every direction. Every gobble tells you a bird is close, and each one fuels the belief that an encounter could happen at any moment.

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Colleen Foehrenbacher: DIY archery elk hunting demands your best, year-round

Featured, Features, Home Page News, Hunting, Minnesota, National Hunting /

I hit my breaking point somewhere around 10,800 feet. I was five days into my first archery elk hunt, running on too little food, too little sleep, and far too much stubbornness, so I snapped.
I was exhausted, frustrated, and completely out of my depth. I turned that frustration on my husband and hunting partner, and then, after cursing him out through crocodile tears, I turned inward.

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Colleen Foehrenbacher: Preparation, careful handling, and storytelling turn wild game meals into connection

Cooking, Featured, Features, Fishing, Home Page News, Hunting, Minnesota, National Fishing, National Hunting /

In the first few months of the year I focus more on emptying the freezers than filling them. Recipes get revisited, refined, and tested for the first time, and nothing brings me more delight than sharing our harvest with others.
Each year, I host a handful of wild game dinners at our home, with different groups of friends, neighbors, and folks associated with my workplace, Eagle Bluff Environmental Learning Center.

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Colleen Foehrenbacher: Tanning hides and boiling skulls keep hands busy and minds in the field

Featured, Features, Home Page News, Hunting, Minnesota, National Hunting /

Before kicking off this inaugural column, a little about myself: I was born and raised in Ohio and moved to Minnesota after college, planning to stay just one year. Fifteen years later, I’m still here, now with a husband, three bird dogs, and a fulfilling career at Eagle Bluff Environmental Learning Center.
I was introduced to hunting as an adult, and it has unquestionably changed my life.

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