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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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.
Outdoor Insights: Looking into Minnesota’s elk issues Read More »
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.
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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A New York Times story this spring by Helena, Mont.-based freelance writer Jim Robbins addressed the growing challenges in containing chronic wasting disease nationwide.
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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.
The legislation indeed passed before the Legislature adjourned Sunday, and the State Capitol’s streak of getting dedicated sales tax dollars into the ground on time remains in place.
We’ve got a late-breaking 2026 Minnesota Legislative Session emergency that demands the attention and action of every sportsman and sportswoman in the state.
At stake is $191 million in dedicated sales taxes that the Legislature appropriates for habitat via the Outdoor Heritage Fund. These are not general tax dollars, these are the Legacy dollars that citizens permanently dedicated back in 2008.
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