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Natalie Ryder

Minnesota’s ‘CWD hunt’ harvest tops last year’s

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As the 2025 archery deer season neared its Dec. 31 end, Minnesota almost had its final tally on chronic wasting disease from the hunting season.
During the late-CWD hunt from Friday, Dec. 19, to Sunday, Dec. 21, hunters harvested about 1,074 deer, which is about 24% higher than last year’s harvest of 869 deer. The 2025 season was just shy of doubling the 2023 late-CWD hunt when hunters harvested about 571 deer.

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Minnesota’s Outdoor Heritage Fund has additional $23 million available

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Following the state’s November budget forecast, the Minnesota Management and Budget office announced that there would be an additional $23 million available for the Lessard-Sams Outdoor Heritage Council to appropriate this upcoming year.
With that additional money on the table, bringing the total amount available to $188.9 million, the council approved proportionately increasing how much it will offer the 50 selected projects in the upcoming year.

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Pursuit of Cloquet Forestry Center land transfer continues

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In late August this year, the University of Minnesota announced it had reached an agreement in principle – a commitment between parties – with the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa regarding the Cloquet Forestry Center.
The agreement would allow the university to continue to operate and maintain the forestry center but transfer ownership of the 3,400 acres the center sits on to the Fond du Lac band.

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Canada ends program for remote border crossing

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On Friday, Dec. 19, the Canadian Border Services Agency announced it would discontinue the long-standing remote area border crossing permit program by Sept. 14, 2026. People who have a remote area border crossing permit as of Sept. 1, 2023, will have their permit extended until 11:59 p.m. on Sept. 13, 2026.
Prior to the mid-December announcement, all extended RABC permits were set to expire Dec. 31, 2025.

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Cases related to charges of harvesting wild rice with illegal equipment continue in Minnesota

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The cases against two White Earth Nation band members facing charges for mechanical wild rice harvest on Height of Land Lake in Becker County continue with or without the defendants.
There are two men – Jesse Barrientez, 36, and Reino Rousu, 54 – each facing two charges of wild rice harvest with illegal equipment and harvesting outside of harvest hours on Aug. 28.

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Minnesota study to look at activities of bears, bobcats, coyotes in Duluth area’s urban locations

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The Natural Resources Research Institute at the University of Minnesota-Duluth and the Minnesota DNR are kicking off a long-term carnivore study this winter around the Duluth area.
Researchers will radio-collar bears, coyotes, and bobcats in Duluth, Hermantown, Proctor, and the surrounding areas during the coming months to begin tracking the animals’ movement in urban areas.

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Fond du Lac moose take at 18; other tribal harvest in Minnesota yet unknown

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While the tribal moose harvest for Fond du Lac, Bois Forte, and Grand Portage tribal members ends Dec. 31, Fond du Lac wildlife biologist Mike Schrage said he suspects that harvest is mostly done for the season.
“Typically, most of our moose harvest is done by mid-October, so I’m not expecting many more animals to be taken,” Schrage said.

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Minnesota’s muzzleloader deer harvest up 7% from year ago

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After this year’s Minnesota muzzleloader deer-hunting season wrapped up Sunday, Dec. 14, preliminary harvest for that season totaled 9,216 deer – a 7% increase over last year’s blackpowder season.
At the same time, the total harvest for all deer-hunting seasons has pushed past the 181,000 mark, more than 10,000 more than a year ago.

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What can Minnesota trappers expect with bobcat, marten, fisher seasons soon to begin?

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In what Bert Highland, Minnesota Trappers Association vice president, describes as the heart of pine marten territory around Brimson, he anticipates a decent trapping season ahead.
The pine marten-trapping season, along with that for fishers and bobcats, begins Dec. 13 in Minnesota’s northern furbearer zone; they begin Jan. 6 in the southern furbearer zone, pine martens not included.

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