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Minnesota DNR to launch changes to muskie-stocking regimen

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With more and more information lately to consider, the Minnesota DNR is rethinking its approach to muskie stocking across the state as a means to promote lower mortality rates and overall population improvement.
“(We’re) working toward a more efficient program and producing and stocking a product that is going to survive and recruit to the fishery and at the end of an angler’s hook, potentially,” said Leslie George, the DNR’s northeast regional fisheries manager.
Data to improve muskie fisheries across the state point to a distinct answer for the DNR.

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Minnesota hockey camp empowers those with disabilities to give paddling the Boundary Waters a try

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In 2018, friends Tony Lang and Dan Lilya brought a vision to life in the form of the Boundary Waters Sled Hockey Combine, a camp that combines sled hockey game play and training with a day trip into the Boundary Water Canoe Area Wilderness for its campers with disabilities.
“The wheelchairs go up in a separate canoe, the wheelchairs are set there, and the players own it. They get out, they go across that portage there without help – only teammates help teammates.  Coaches or parents are not allowed to assist or make it easy for them,” Lang said. “That is definitely our capstone, most unique event.”

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Minnesota Conservation Federation rallies groups to set up conservation network

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The Minnesota Conservation Federation hosted a kick-off meeting on Thursday, Aug. 22, for a new conservation venture, preliminarily dubbed the “Minnesota Conservation Network.”
The network’s goal is to serve as a conduit for groups and organizations to connect with one another on topics in which more than one organization is interested. Greg Kvale, who’s been affiliated with various conservation organizations for many years and is a former forester with the Minnesota DNR, said he believes that after the dissolution of the Minnesota Outdoor Heritage Alliance there’s been a missing link in Minnesota conservation.

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Minnesota’s 2024 bear hunt offers more promising outlook than last year

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As the bear-hunting season arrives Sunday, Sept. 1, bear guides and a DNR biologist suspect it’ll be an average but favorable year, especially compared with last year’s season. 
The suspected outcome was reiterated after bear baiting began Friday, Aug. 16, which offered the state’s bear-hunting guides insight into what the upcoming season could look like.
“There’s no shortage of bears up here. … Some baits are getting hit really well, some they’re not eating everything, they’re just kind of cherry-picking the best stuff out, and we’ve got a few that haven’t been touched yet,” said bear guide Jim Wallner, of Grand Marais.

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Minnesota researchers learn about wood duck preferences, patterns

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As the ping on the VHF radio grows louder from almost an inaudible chirp, Minnesota DNR Bemidji-area wildlife researchers, while driving down the road, know they’re on the right track to finding one of their radio-collared female wood ducks.
Once they get as close as the road will take them, the trek begins into the forested Cass County survey area to find a hen wood duck’s exact nesting location, often far from easy access via road or trail.

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Upcoming Minnesota DNR auction includes more than 300 confiscated items

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During the past few years, the Minnesota DNR has seized, then confiscated various fishing, hunting, and trapping equipment from individuals who’ve violated game and fish laws.
Those confiscated items will be auctioned off, virtually, during two upcoming auctions. Online bidding for the first auction begins at 8 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 23 where interested individuals can sift through items. If participants wish to see items in person, they may go to Hiller Auction Service in Zimmerman from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Friday, too.

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Aerated bait buckets not exempt from Minnesota’s aquatic invasive species regulations

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When Bill Rollie and Spencer McGrew, watercraft inspectors in Otter Tail County, Minn., interact with anglers and inspect their boats, it’s obvious what they’re looking for: zebra mussels or visible vegetation attached to boats and trailers.
What is a more inconspicuous item they’re looking for when anglers exit a water body is the microscopic aquatic invasive species that could be hiding in plain sight inside bait buckets, aerated or otherwise.

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Minnesota’s LCCMR approves more than 125 projects at $103 million

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On July 31, the Legislative-Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources approved funding more than 125 projects related to the environment and natural resources to the tune of $103 million.
The amount of money available for LCCMR to allocate for 2025 projects across the state totaled around $100 million when it met to make final allocations at the end of July. That’s an increase from the originally assumed $90 million LCCMR was expected to receive from the Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund – state lottery proceeds.

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Minnesota Conservation Federation’s new board leadership welcomes fresh era

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This summer, when Julia Schrenkler became the Minnesota Conservation Federation’s board of directors’ president, in a unanimous vote by her board-member peers, she felt honored by the experience.
“I am really grateful for a unanimous vote because that would be hard. I’m still so grateful,” Schrenkler said.
While being named president of the board is an exciting moment in her time with MNCF, what really impresses her is the direction, and invigoration that Brad Gausman, executive director, is bringing to the organization.

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