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Outdoor Insights: ‘Accounting error’ means a 4% decline in available dollars for habitat work in Minnesota

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

Being a public watchdog sometimes means sitting through boring legislative hearings and wading through long reports, then summarizing them for readers.

Like this past Sunday evening, when I spent time perusing the thrilling, 102-page February 2025 Budget and Economic Forecast from the Minnesota Management and Budget office. The report arrived last week, and tucked into the bottom of Page 47 was a cold sentence that only a CPA could love.

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Outdoor Insights: National parks are big business, so why are we gutting them?

5 Comments / Discussions, Featured, Featured, Home Page News, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Opinion, Opinion, Opinion, Opinion, Opinion, Opinion, Opinion, Opinion, Opinion, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin /

Two weeks ago, the Trump administration announced it would lay off 1,000 National Park Service employees. A week later, after some backlash, we were hearing that some of those positions would be re-hired, and that additional seasonal staff would come on board in 2025.
Anyone trying to track the federal government layoffs knows it’s been chaotic, and it’ll be months before the dust settles.

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Outdoor Insights: Will introduced elk adjust well to predators on the landscape in Minnesota’s northeast?

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

The DNR held two public meetings this week on the plan to start reintroducing elk to northeastern Minnesota by spring 2026. If you couldn’t make the meetings, you still can chime in on the plan, available at the DNR’s elk-management web page.
Citizens may complete an online questionnaire there through Feb. 28. You also can submit comments via email to ne.elk.plan.dnr@state.mn.us – again through Feb. 28.

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Outdoor Insights: A special muskie regulation on Minnesota’s Leech Lake?

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

Leech Lake and its muskies have become ground zero in debate about forward-facing sonar and whether new regulations could protect big fish later into summer.
A document – “Minnesota’s Muskie Dilemma” –  reached my email in-box last week that outlines growing concern about the “over-catching” phenomena there in early summer using FFS in combination with other gadgets.

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Land Tawney leads new conservation outfit protecting nation’s public lands

Home Page News, National Fishing, National Hunting, National News /

Land Tawney is back.
Sportsmen and women active on social media likely have seen posts appear this month from a new nonprofit organization, the American Hunters and Anglers Action Network. Tawney, formerly the president and CEO of Montana-based Backcountry Hunters and Anglers, speaks in several videos promoting the new group, which he says aggressively will advocate for the nation’s public lands.

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Minnesota’s new muskie plan will put an emphasis on yearling stocking

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

A session at the 2025 Minnesota DNR Roundtable on Friday, Jan. 10, focused on state muskie research and future management of the species. Brian Herwig and Mike Knapp from DNR Fisheries along with Aaron Meyer of the Minnesota Muskie and Pike Alliance led the discussion.
Knapp, the Brainerd-area fisheries supervisor, began the session by explaining that sport catches of muskies go back to the late 1800s. Many Minnesotans know the story of the “Muskie Rampage” on Leech Lake in the summer of 1955.

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Outdoor Insights: Important notes from Minnesota’s 2025 DNR Roundtable

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

The Minnesota DNR held its annual roundtable meetings event last Friday, Jan. 10, in Bloomington. It saw 400-plus attendees, and the agenda improved from recent years, although I would’ve liked to have seen one of the 16 small sessions focus on the state’s most important game animal, the white-tailed deer.

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Outdoor Insights: Can Minnesota legislators remember what compromise means this upcoming session?

Featured, Home Page News, Minnesota, Opinion /

Hearing lots of chatter about a possible state budget deficit in a few years. The opposition and some media happily have declared that Democrats own any deficit due to their spending of the 2023 budget surplus. The budget that year didn’t get a single Republican vote, so yeah, for the foreseeable future, Dems should expect political fallout over lower forecasts.
But Republican lawmakers played a dangerous game during the 2022 legislative session when they walked away from a budget deal even though they controlled the state Senate 34-31.

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Christmas week chuckles: A mountain-naming controversy as Trump says he’ll rename Denali in Alaska

Home Page News, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Nature Page & Night Sky, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Opinion, Opinion, Opinion, Opinion, Opinion, Opinion, Opinion, Opinion, Opinion, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin /

On the lighter side this week, I see President-elect Trump wants to rename Denali in Alaska as Mount McKinley. Until the recent news reports, I didn’t realize the federal name change happened a mere decade ago under the Obama administration.
During my first visit to the state back in 1997 for a fishing trip, I heard Alaskans exclusively refer to the mountain as Denali. I’ve been back twice more, but to this Lower 48er on my first trip, it was Mount McKinley. Several people up there immediately corrected me.

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