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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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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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.
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.
At the MN-Fish board meeting last Thursday, Aug. 7, Bemidji State grad student Baylor Short presented an update on the Leech Lake muskie study, which kicked off in May.
The research began in response to concerns about the growing angling pressure on the 112,000-acre lake’s important muskie resource, particularly in the era of forward-facing sonar. Sponsors of the three-year study include the DNR, MN-Fish, Bemidji State, and the Leech Lake Band.
Old-school conservation minds now can view original hand-written notes and journals of renowned environmental educator and author Aldo Leopold online.
Most famous for writing “A Sand County Almanac,” Leopold was arguably the father of modern wildlife management and conservation ethics, and he was a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison when the school established the first department of wildlife ecology in the nation.
In the middle of public lands and roadless rules debates, another announcement slipped past the nation’s outdoors media earlier this month. On Thursday, July 3, the Trump administration issued an executive order establishing a Make America Beautiful Again Commission.
Here’s its stated purpose:
Outdoor Insights: Shining some light on the ‘Make America Beautiful Again Commission’ Read More »
Mike Dombeck led the rulemaking process as chief of the U.S. Forest Service under Clinton. Originally from northwestern Wisconsin, he spent a career in public service, mostly in fisheries, earning multiple degrees, including a masters from the U of M.
While local leaders honor Melissa Hortman’s thoughtful governance in Minnesota, federal lawmakers keep playing games with public lands.
Condolences to the family, friends, and colleagues of former speaker of the Minnesota House, Melissa Hortman. Although I’d met Hortman at a few events over the years, I’d never interviewed her in-depth. In terms of bill authorship, Hortman wasn’t closely involved in traditional outdoors issues at the Capitol, but insiders say she played a crucial leadership role in the passage of matters important to outdoors folks.
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