If there’s a bright spot in firearms deer harvest in Minnesota, it’s yet to shine. Following the opening weekend of the anticipated season, state DNR officials say the deer kill was 13% off last year’s pace, with a total take of 47,370 deer on Saturday and Sunday.
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Hanna Stibbe thought appropriate items to adorn a cabin her parents, David and Cheryl Stibbe, are building near Effie in northern Minnesota might be salvageable relics from the house built on the property by her grandfather during the early 1900s.
What that might be, she didn’t know, as she went about exploring inside the house, which, she says, had been “open to the elements” since her grandfather returned to the abandoned home following his years of military service during World War II. Recently, as Hanna sorted though the withering remains of items therein, she came upon the “something” she sought: a deer-hunting license her great-grandfather, Emil Stibbe, had purchased in 1924.
Winter walleye-fishing regulations have been set for Minnesota’s most popular early-ice destination, and anglers this year will be allowed to keep four walleyes less than 17 inches (with one over 17 allowed) on Upper Red Lake. The “winter” season officially begins Nov. 1. The new regulation is a decrease from a five-fish, open-water limit this year, but a one-walleye increase from last winter’s three-fish limit on Upper Red.
Beginning Friday, Dec. 1, Lake Mille Lacs anglers can keep one walleye 21 to 23 inches long or one longer than 28 inches.
Winter walleye regulations set on Minnesota’s Upper Red, Mille Lacs lakes Read More »
Some of the state’s largest wildlife management areas – Whitewater, Mille Lacs, Red Lake, and Lac qui Parle – have been the subject of management plan efforts by DNR officials and others for the past several months. But behind the scenes, the little guys – Dovray (Murray County), Dolven (Stevens), and Dorr (Polk), for example – are getting some love, as well.
Most of Minnesota’s wildlife management areas, some 1,500 of them totaling more than 1.3 million acres (the second-largest public recreation unit in the state behind state forests) largely have been guided by state law and at the discretion of local wildlife managers, for the benefit of wild life. But sans an official plan.
Minnesota DNR moving toward plan for state’s ‘other’ wildlife management areas Read More »
When I was a young waterfowler all those years ago, my friends and I were highly devoted to our craft and practiced it whenever we could. In fact, we’d often go out before church and, I recall, in keeping a promise, I once showed up at Trinity Lutheran just in time for a service, but clad in my camouflage. I think I took the time to remove the green, black, and brown paint from my face – possibly washing it off in the church’s basement bathroom.
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Bear hunters and guides alike knew the competition would be stiff going into this year’s Minnesota bear-hunting season, which began Sept. 1 and ends Sunday. That competition: an abundance of natural forage in the bear woods – an option other than bear baits.
As of Tuesday, bear hunters in northern Minnesota’s quota and no-quota zones, had killed about 1,690 black bears, according to Dan Stark, the Minnesota DNR’s large carnivore specialist in Grand Rapids. Stark said that was about 80% of the kill at this point a year ago.
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For two consecutive springs, in 2020 and 2021, often night after night and for grueling 12-hour shifts, conservation officers from the Minnesota DNR and conservation wardens from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources tucked themselves into shoreline vegetation and watched men fish on Pool 9 of the Mississippi River.
Often, the officers would write lengthy reports the following morning. After some rest, another similar shift might begin that afternoon. Those fishing from a Mississippi float, the officers would learn, were running equally lengthy shifts, fishing and traveling between the river and their homes in far eastern Wisconsin.
A friend and freelance writer for this newspaper caught crappies and killed ducks on the same lake, about four miles from my house, last weekend.
I didn’t join him because A) he didn’t ask me to join him, and B) because I was some five hours by pickup away from the area. (Maybe that’s why he didn’t ask, but it seems unlikely, given that he texted me from the lake as he fished on Friday night).
Streams of Thought: Another memorable Minnesota duck opener behind us Read More »
When they told me that my pup, Liza, would slow down a bit after having pups last spring, I believed them. They, of course, were wrong.
I think she found a new, higher gear. And so it was almost a year ago that I watched as she zigged and zagged and leapt and bounded around and beneath and often through downed trees and branches and other obstacles on the Chippewa National Forest in northern Minnesota during a few days of ruffed grouse hunting.
Streams of Thought: Keep your hunting dogs safe this season Read More »
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