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Rob Drieslein

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

Featured, Fishing, Home Page News, Hunting, Minnesota, National Fishing, National Hunting, Opinion /

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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Outdoor Insights: Minnesota legislative session sets bad precedent for future Outdoor Heritage Fund funding debates

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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.

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Action Alert: With three days left in Minnesota legislative session, tell your legislator to get Legacy funding done NOW!

Featured, Fishing, Home Page News, Hunting, Minnesota, National Fishing, National Hunting, Nature Page & Night Sky, Opinion /

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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Outdoor Insights: Minnesota crossbow vote details how detached politicians are to hunting topics

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As Outdoor News reported last week, language making crossbow use permanent during the Minnesota archery season passed 133-0 in the House and 67-0 in the Senate last month. If you’re a voter desperate for bipartisanship in Minnesota, I give you crossbows during the archery season. But really? 200-to-zero? When’s the last time the legislature voted 200-to-zero on anything?

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Outdoor Insights: Confirmed Minnesota cougar cubs force a skeptic to reevaluate; and Outdoor Heritage Fund demands help

Featured, Home Page News, Minnesota, Nature Page & Night Sky, Opinion /

The verified video of three cougar cubs in northern Minnesota last week qualifies as one of the biggest outdoors stories of the year. Social media chatter after the story broke ranged from amusing to conspiratorial.
Some folks insist that the DNR has been secretly concealing the presence of a legitimate cougar population, which seems odd given that the agency issued the actual press release about these cougars and the story went viral nationwide within hours. Others say that local folks have known about a wild population of cats for decades.

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