The Minnesota 4-H shooting sports and wildlife program teaches young students how to shoot BB guns, bows, air rifles and pistols, .22 rifles and pistols, muzzleloaders, and shotguns. The program is a University of Minnesota Extension program that began around 1980.
4-H shooting and wildlife program reaches thousands in Minnesota over 45 years Read More »
After hours of public comments, the Mound City Council denied a request for Harrisons Bay to create a lake improvement district (LID) on Lake Minnetonka.
The decision was primarily the result of the council not wanting to impose additional taxes on Harrisons Bay residents, especially those who oppose the formation of the improvement district. Despite public comments worried about the fishery’s health due to the chemical treatment, those issues weren’t a primary reason for the denial.
Mound City Council rejects lake improvement district on Minnesota’s Lake Minnetonka Read More »
As smoke from Canadian wildfires has blanketed Minnesota multiple times this summer, it has affected some of the work of DNR Enforcement conservation officer pilots.
For example, some of the affected tasks were sketch mapping (checking forest health by way of color shades) or doing creel surveys on lakes – counting the number of boats present this summer.
“I’ve been doing a bunch of creel surveys and usually, you can fly fairly high and you can [cover] a large body of water and you can count boats that are fairly small from 1,000 feet in the air,” CO Pilot Ryan Hannah said.
Growing up in the area and fishing Leech Lake, especially for muskies, it was a no-brainer for Baylor Short to tackle a Leech Lake muskie study coordinated by MN-Fish, the Minnesota DNR, and Bemidji State University.
“It’s nice to be working with the species I enjoy fishing for,” said Short, fisheries specialist for the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe and a BSU grad student leading the field work.
The study is well under way this summer, as Short has traversed the lake while dropping receivers and tracking tagged muskies, via boat, to better understand habitat use, how far the fish are moving, and to gauge mortality.
Residents along Lake Minnetonka’s shoreline and Twin Cities Chapter of Muskies, Inc. President Jim Doyle like to say there are two different types of boat users. There are anglers who are constantly thinking about the underwater structure and vegetation while pursuing fish. And there are those who hop in a boat and view the water as simply flat.
“There are the boaters who look at it as a flat sheet of water that they drive around on and anything that impedes that is a problem for boating,” Doyle said.
The impediment? Invasive lake vegetation such as Eurasian watermilfoil.
The Minnesota DNR filed a lawsuit on Thursday, August 7 against both the Kittson County Sheriff’s Department and Kittson County Sheriff Matt Vig for illegally issuing an elk tag to a farmer who shot an elk in that northwestern Minnesota county in late January 2025, according to the lawsuit.
The lawsuit is more of a formal declaration that the department and sheriff, as the DNR claims, overstepped its legal ability and authority to issue any kind of permit or possession tag for an elk.
Minnesota DNR sues Kittson County sheriff for issuance of elk permit Read More »
Reports from around Minnesota indicate the wild rice crop is greatly improved over last year’s desolate production and poor ricing season.
“[It’s] definitely better than last year – not that that was hard, considering how dismal last year was. But good news: [It’s] also better than I thought,” said Ann Geisen, a DNR wildlife lake specialist.
Wild ricing in Minnesota predicted to easily best last year’s crop Read More »
This year’s natural food landscape in Minnesota’s bear country is going to be a different animal from last year, as this season likely will return to a more normal supply of natural bear forage.
“In the northern half of the state, certainly a night-and-day difference from last year. Last year, we had one of the worst food years on record,” said Andy Tri, the DNR’s bear project leader.
Minnesota’s natural bear foods more ‘normal’ this summer Read More »
In June, a group of organizations led by the Minnesota Division of the Izaak Walton League of America filed a petition requesting the DNR not renew or extend the Keystone Woods Wildlife Management Area lease agreement with the Minnesota Federation of Field Trial Clubs.
The newly created WMA is situated in the northeastern corner of the Twin Cities metro area. The petition cited concerns that dog trialing on the land would negatively affect the environment and wildlife residing within the property.
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