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Outdoor Insights: Pheasants Forever grows its lobbying horsepower in attempt to reverse trend of dwindling upland-bird habitat

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St. Paul-based Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever continues to grow its lobbying horsepower in Washington D.C.
With its recent hiring of Ariel Wiegard as the its vice president of government affairs, the nonprofit now has four people focused on national conservation policy. As much as we admire grassroots, on-the-ground conservation work, sometimes successful lobbying in smoke-filled rooms delivers key public policy and, more importantly, dollars.

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Outdoor Insights: What’s in a name when it comes to birds?

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This newspaper printed a story last week about the American Ornithological Society’s plan to rename 80 species of North American birds named after people. We’re talking feathered friends like the Wilson’s phalarope, the Cooper’s hawk, and – as the Delta Waterfowl reprint last week noted – three waterfowl species.

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Minnesota’s total deer harvest down 7% from 2022 through Nov. 19

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The firearms deer kill in Minnesota struggled to gain ground through the season’s third weekend, and the DNR reports that cumulative statewide deer harvest across all seasons is down 7% from 2022.
As the northeast’s 16-day season wrapped up on Sunday, Nov. 19, the cumulative white-tailed deer kill through all seasons was 142,142. In addition to being behind last year, that’s 14% below the five-year mean and 10% off the 10-year mean.

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Outdoor Insights: Minnesota’s CWD management practices proving to be quite successful by comparison

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Last week’s Outdoor News reported a couple of new positive chronic wasting disease cases, one near Grand Rapids and the other around Northfield. That’s two too many, and with firearms hunting under way, expect more.
Through last Sunday, there were many results pending but no new positives. Our neighbor to the east proves it could be worse.

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Outdoor Insights: New report illustrates importance of hunters, anglers to American economy

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Pheasant hunters busting open their wallets gave rural Minnesota an economic bump last weekend, and a new report again illustrates just how much casters and blasters contribute to American gross domestic product.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service last week released its 2022 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation, a survey that says hunting and fishing contributed $145 billion to the U.S. economy. Wildlife watching contributed another $250 billion. In human terms, 39 million people (15% of the U.S. population 16 years and older) participated in recreational fishing, and 14 million people (5.5% of U.S. 16 years and older) participated in hunting.

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Wild Rice: Here are recipes to incorporate this natural superfood into your wild game diet this fall

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Back in the early 1970s, my dad and a buddy harvested wild rice from a small lake near the Sherburne National Wildlife Refuge. My parents stored the wild grain in coffee cans, and Mom cooked it as a side dish just once a year, on Thanksgiving.
The stuff keeps forever, and we enjoyed that Minnesota wild rice for nearly 20 days of thanks. It may have been my favorite part of the holiday, and I always wondered why we didn’t eat more of it.
Maybe because even though wild rice has a humble background, it’s not cheap. A pound of legitimately hand-harvested wild rice from a Midwestern wetland can set you back $20 at a grocery store. Of course, there are more affordable options.

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Outdoor Insights: Drought reinvigorates wetlands for ducks in Minnesota

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For all we’ve heard about this summer’s drought, a silver lining has been duck habitat. Parched wetlands are disconcerting in July and August, but those settling, dry sediments provide a prime site for aquatic plants to germinate.
A small wetland near my home was bone-dry all summer, but after the recent rains, it contains water now, and ducks. Every time I drive past, I see several migrant puddlers with their tails skyward, happily munching on seeds, or tubers that took root in the tiny, previously stagnant pond.

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Outdoor Insights: Minnesota DNR’s proposed regulation designed to grow bigger pike in popular Gull Lake chain near Brainerd

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If you like healthy northern pike, then the Minnesota DNR’s proposal to implement a 30- to 40-inch protected slot on the Gull Lake chain north of Brainerd deserves your support. The agency has several special and experimental regulations open to public comment through Oct. 20, including the idea to improve pike size on the 13,000-acre chain, which contains Gull and Upper Gull, Margaret, Ray, Love, Nisswa, Roy, and Round lakes in Cass and Crow Wing counties.

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