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

3 Comments / Discussions, Fishing, Hunting, Minnesota, National Fishing, National Hunting, Opinion /

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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Outdoor Insights: Another big outdoors show comes to Minnesota, and a rare ferret photographed

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On top of Game Fair and State Fair, August in Minnesota just got even busier.
Readers of this newspaper have seen us report about the SHOT and ICAST shows, the two big trade conventions serving the shooting sports and sportfishing industries. They’re different from popular consumer shows like Game Fair or the Northwest Sportshow, because they limit attendance to industry professionals, but some news usually breaks, plus a massive amount of business gets done at them.

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Outdoor Insights: Why wasn’t Pheasants Forever invited to outdoors forum meeting with Secretary of the Interior at the White House?

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U.S. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum hosted a conservation leadership forum at the White House on Sept. 4 that included about 15 executives from the nation’s big outdoors groups.
In addition to Burgum, high-roller attendees from the Trump administration included Vince Haley, director of the president’s domestic policy council, Kate MacGregor, deputy Interior secretary, and Brian Nesvik, the new director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

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A quick chat with outdoors journalist and conservation advocate Hal Herring

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Award-winning outdoors scribe Hal Herring hails from Augusta, Mont., which allows him to use the tagline “Writing from the edge of the Bob Marshall Wilderness.” Originally from north Alabama, Herring also works in forestry, and he hosts the Backcountry Hunters and Anglers Podcast and Blast.

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Outdoor Insights: An update on Minnesota’s wild rice and sandhill crane hunting season

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Three days of wild ricing late this summer produced exactly 300 pounds of ripe wild rice for me and my partners. Post-processing, that equates to about 45% (or 135 pounds) of finished rice that we’ll split – more than enough to fill the pantry and get my family through another year … and then some.
Late summer 2025 won’t go down as the greatest wild ricing year ever in Minnesota, but it was a major improvement from the dismal crop of 2024.

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Outdoor Insights: Time to organize a Duck Summit in Minnesota to address dwindling populations

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Count Outdoor News among those endorsing Dennis Anderson’s suggestion that the Minnesota DNR should coordinate and host a Duck Summit. Gov. Mark Dayton pitched a Pheasant Summit in 2014, and hunters may actually be enjoying the fruits of those efforts 11 years later.
Last week’s Outdoor News contained an optimistic season outlook for roosters this fall. As for ducks, despite a forecast from the feds last week that was less dire than expected, the long-term trends for quackers continue to slide.

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Outdoor Insights: Taking a deeper look into state and tribal harvest levels on Minnesota’s Lake Mille Lacs

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Anglers and surrounding businesses received a shot of good news last week when the Minnesota DNR announced it was liberalizing the walleye limit for Mille Lacs effective last Saturday, Aug. 23. Anglers may now keep three walleyes per day through Nov. 30, at least until a new winter regulation kicks in Dec. 1.
I couldn’t help but scrutinize harvest level data for multiple species on Mille Lacs. For starters, everyone should understand that the Ojibwe bands likely will kill far more walleyes on Mille Lacs during 2025 than will state license holders.

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