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Oct. 20: Bluff View Chapter, Friends of NRA Banquet at the Byron Legion in Byron at 5 p.m. with dinner at 7 p.m. For more info call Sue Bierly at 507-533-4307. Oct. 23: MDHA Hibbing/Chisolm Chapter Annual Membership Banquet at the Hibbing Armory at 4:30 p.m. Call 218-263-8881 for more info. Oct. 25: MDHA North […]

DNR staff will present information and listen to comments regarding a proposal to expand the current two-mile catch-and-release regulation area to a 10-mile stretch of the river from the Wabasha County Road 7 bridge, downstream to Zumbro Falls. Written comments may be sent to the Lake City DNR Fisheries office at 1801 South Oak Street,

Field Editor South Dakota’s residents-only pheasant hunting opener attracted small numbers of hunters who found few pheasants. The season, established in response to complaints that resident hunters faced undue competition from nonresidents, allowed state hunters to pursue pheasants for three days on public lands a week before the Oct. 20 general opener. Hunters who went

Milwaukee The DNR has negotiated an option to buy lakefront property for public access on 81-acre Moose Lake, in the town of Merton in Waukesha County. There is no adequate public access to Moose Lake now. Lake residents and the public are limited to one private boat ramp on the south shore. The DNR has

Editor St. Paul The Minnesota DNR announced last week that effective Dec. 1, 2001, Lake Mille Lacs anglers may keep walleyes between 14 inches and 18 inches, with one walleye over 28 inches in their possession limit. The announcement followed a meeting last Thursday between DNR Commissioner Allen Garber and other DNR staffers with about

Editor St. Paul A shake-up in the DNR Commissioner’s office will redistribute responsibilities among the agency’s top management staff. Under the new structure, Kim Bonde, former special assistant to Commissioner Allen Garber, will take over as assistant commissioner of administration. The previous assistant commissioner for administration, Kurt Ulrich, now moves to head the Bureau of

Correspondent Madison Alliant Energy Corporation’s workplace violence policy, which recently shut hunters out of 2,900 acres of prime hunting land around its Columbia Energy Center near Portage, will affect even more Wisconsin hunters and acres. That’s because Alliant is not only a large utility company, but also a major landowner in Wisconsin and the Midwest.

Vaa said the spring migration was different from the past spring due to a heavy snowpack in eastern and northeastern South Dakota. In the U.S. and Canada, the harvest of light geese since 1998 has been more than 1 million birds; the past three years the conservation order has accounted for a third of the