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Boundary Waters update: Overnight closure remains in place through July 29

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Superior National Forest officials on Thursday announced they are extending the closure of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness for overnight users through Wednesday, July 29. But some areas may be opening by later next week.
Per an agency press release, forest officials say they anticipate the ability to open select portions of the BWCAW entry points in Minnesota’s Cook and Lake counties next week to overnight use – barring no significant wildfire activity over the upcoming weekend.

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Outdoor Insights: Meet Griffith Pugh, a 20-year-old leader on Minnesota’s conservation scene

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Walking into a public lands panel last Saturday at the Izaak Walton League of America’s national convention in Bloomington, an ominous reality struck this 50-something: I was one of the younger people present.
That’s not a slam at the 300-plus hard-working volunteers who dedicated a summer weekend to promoting and advocating for the wild places where we hunt and fish. It’s simply a commentary on the health of the conservation movement and the demographics still fighting the good fight.

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Outdoor Insights: Minnesota loses a huge fishing advocate in Tom Neustrom

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Tim Lesmeister and I devoted a segment to remembering Tom last week on Outdoor News Radio. Lesmeister recounted the tale of how Neustrom survived a gunshot as a Chicago police officer decades ago, before serving as a deputy with the Itasca County Sheriff’s Department.

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Outdoor Insights: An example of why your subscription dollars to Outdoor News matter

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The staff here appreciate all of our subscribers and advertisers who support the work necessary to generate Outdoor News each week and update our website daily.
This operation makes phone calls while curating stories from other respected media outlets along the way. In all my years, I don’t recall us getting hoodwinked into printing something fake. If we did, we’d admit our mistake. But I had a close call last week, and I want to share this case study as an example of why the dollars you spend subscribing to this publication are a worthwhile investment.

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Outdoor Insights: Looking into Minnesota’s elk issues

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Minnesota’s elk population has been in the news, starting with the state offering 12 tags in 2026 to harvest animals in the northwest. The DNR currently has no elk coordinator, and efforts to create a new elk herd in the northeast have stalled thanks to a dispute between the Fond du Lac and Red Lake bands.
This scribe has border envy as Wisconsin’s two elk herds show steady growth and love from the Badger State public – state and tribal.

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Outdoor Insights: An early look at how the Minnesota DNR’s new electronic licensing system is working

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After work last Tuesday, I quickly downloaded the new MN DNR Licensing smartphone app from the Apple store, then it probably took me 15 minutes to successfully log in.
I think most of that time was due to the necessary security protocols that exist for a system like this, which contains loads of private information. David Tauchen, an info officer at the DNR, showed me a little trick that eased my concerns about protecting that information.

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Outdoor Insights: Minnesota waters of the Mississippi River producing big pike

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Got out for a morning of fishing on Pool 5A of the Mississippi River in Minnesota last Saturday with my dad and three of my kids.
Angling started slow, then for a solid 20 minutes, the northern pike were on a tear. Casting old-school spoons, my boys had multiple strikes and brought three into the boat, all thick specimens over 30 inches. They released two, but the third took the lure deep into the gut, so he came home for a Saturday night fish fry. Delicious.
Curious about our good luck, I called DNR Fisheries in Lake City for more information about the status of northern pike along the Minnesota-Wisconsin border.

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Outdoor Insights: Legal action in corner crossing debate, and a job that sounds too good to be true

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“It doesn’t matter what side of the barbed wire or political aisle you stand on, we are all public land owners with a vested interest in our public lands,” said Ryan Callaghan, BHA president and CEO. “Corner crossing while respecting private property is a practical ‘middle ground’ that the vast majority of Montanans support.

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