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Outdoor Insights: Key takeaways from Minnesota DNR’s 2026 Roundtable

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The Minnesota DNR held its annual roundtable event with nearly 400 stakeholders on Friday, Jan. 9, at the Heritage Center in Brooklyn Center.
The gathering provided some respite from current events given that attendees shared a love for natural resources and the great outdoors. After Gov. Tim Walz’s announcement last Monday that he will not seek a third term, the 2026 event also likely represented the final roundtable for Commissioner Sarah Strommen and her team of deputy and assistant commissioners.

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Outdoor Insights: Key figures in Minnesota’s outdoor scene retire

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The new year means the big “R” word for some folks – retirement.
Mark Johnson, executive director of the Lessard-Sams Outdoor Heritage Council, wraps his last day on Friday, Jan. 9. Leaders from the state’s outdoors scene can bid him farewell that day at the DNR’s annual Roundtable meeting in Brooklyn Center.

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Outdoor Insights: Help for outdoors funding on the way in Minnesota?

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Next month, the Minnesota DNR will submit a report to the Legislature with details on possibly launching an outdoor recreation endorsement.
Outdoor News has reported for several years on this DNR administration’s goal to develop new longer-term funding sources. Well, this endorsement option may have potential. We’ll know more in January, but here’s a tease.

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Minnesota’s Bluffland Whitetails Association alerts membership to leadership change amid investigation

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The southeast Minnesota deer-hunting advocacy group Bluffland Whitetails Association has ended its affiliation with its longtime president, Taylor Bestor, as an investigation of alleged financial irregularities unfolds.
Members received an email early this week informing them that the group’s board had learned about the financial issue and that “BWA is pausing all organizational activities indefinitely until this irregularity is resolved.”

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Outdoor Insights: On Minnesota deer tag sales and crossbows

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Total 2025 Minnesota deer license sales (excluding archery) were running statistically flat with 2024 through the regular firearms opener weekend.
Deer hunters carrying rifles, shotguns, or muzzleloaders had bought 382,729 licenses this year versus 384,0236 last year. Total firearms sales (excluding smokepoles and youth season tags) are down a smidge, 1%, at 299,104 versus 301,183 last year.

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Outdoor Insights: More federal shenanigans when it comes to public lands

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Tired of reading about scams emerging in Washington D.C. to steal the public lands legacy that we hold dear? Me, too. Nonetheless, there are a couple of big topics that demand the sporting public’s attention.
First, citizens have until Monday, Nov. 11, to comment on a Department of the Interior plan to eliminate the Conservation and Landscape Health Rule of 2024, which made conservation an official use of public lands, putting outdoor recreation on the same level as Bureau of Land Management’s other uses, like grazing, mining, drilling, whatever.

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Federal shutdown forces Pheasants Forever/Quail Forever to furlough farm bill staffers

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Minnesota-based Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever said the ongoing federal government shutdown has resulted in the furlough of at least 25% of the conservation organization’s full-time staff.
Jared Wiklund, director of communications, said that affiliate federal agencies issued a “stop-work order” on October 3 for all Natural Resources Conservation Service partnerships. Those federal conservation program contracts help fund the field time of a solid corps of PF/QF employees.

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Outdoor Insights: Is it time for Minnesota to host a limited state moose hunt again?

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A letter writer recently addressed a topic that many sportsmen ponder: Why do three Chippewa tribes kill several dozen moose every year while state hunters kill zero?
First, a recap of Minnesota moose history. Forty years ago, we had two distinct regions with large, huntable populations of moose — the northwest and the northeast. For reasons that remain unclear, the northwest population crashed first with the DNR canceling hunting there in 1997.

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