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Minnesota DNR gets serious with its statewide WMA planning, target completion date now set

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While updated plans have been completed for some of Minnesota’s “big” wildlife management areas during the past two years (Mille Lacs, Whitewater, Carlos Avery, for example), a DNR effort to establish a statewide “system” plan for both WMAs and aquatic management areas has languished at sea, slowing seeking shore.
But the pace toward landfall has increased of late, with a renewed and focused DNR effort to develop a plan that’s intended to “create a statewide framework for managing WMAs and AMAs more consistently and holistically.”

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Streams of Thought: Minnesota deer kill numbers have always made headlines, even in D.C.

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Until there’s just a bit more finality regarding the results of Minnesota’s 2025 deer-hunting seasons, let’s for now settle for a brief update.
As of earlier this week, with a “CWD hunt” on tap, a portion of the muzzleloader season remaining, and the archery season continuing until year’s end, the deer harvest had pushed past 177,000 – about 7,000 dead animals greater than last year’s take.

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Strikemaster Lazer Mag: An ice auger’s rise – or decline? – to stardom

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I recall clearly the year 1998.
It was during ’98 that I received as a Christmas gift from my now dearly-departed (not dead, just departed) ex-wife. It was my first and, to date, my only ice auger. We were living in a small town in a portion of a big house that served as a triplex.

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Minnesota’s deer harvest surpasses state’s total from 2024; Wisconsin also ahead of last year’s pace

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With a muzzleloader deer-hunting season that continues through Dec. 14, an archery season through Dec. 31, and a late “CWD season” for certain zones set for Dec. 19-21, whitetail harvest numbers will increase in Minnesota.
But as of earlier this week, the state’s hunters already had surpassed the kill from a year ago.

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Frigid weather aiding formation of ice for eager anglers across Minnesota

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For Minnesota ice anglers itching to wet their newest lures, fire up their augers, or otherwise test technology recently added to their arsenals, the time is near. That’s according to an array of bait shop and resort personnel across the entirety of the state.
In fact, ice thickness on Upper Red Lake in far northern Minnesota earlier this week nearly mirrored that of lakes around Fairmont, some 350 miles due south.

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Streams of Thought: Minnesota hunters, don’t sell your deer shotguns just yet

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At this point, it’s clear that the matter is arousing plenty of interest in southern counties, where commissioners may follow 2025 state legislation that allows the use of rifles in what would then be a “former” zone to take effect, or pass an ordinance to keep shotgun use only (or muzzleloader) in place, as has been the rule for many decades.

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Streams of thought: Should’a known better regarding commentary about invasive species

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Despite the fact that I’ve been in this outdoor media business – Outdoor News, of course – since a few months before the “Y2K scare,” I won’t deny occasional fallibility. Thus, while a recent commentary in this publication praised some favorable after-effects of a certain invasive aquatic species introduction, such glowing reviews of species that just don’t belong here deserve greater scrutiny.

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Signs point to productive 2025 firearms deer opener in Minnesota

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Whether or not this year’s Nov. 8 firearms deer-hunt opener is a continuation of a march to 200,000 deer harvested will be known in several weeks. But for now, Minnesota DNR wildlife officials and hunters are optimistic that Saturday’s “opening day” will kick off a season made promising by a number of factors.

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Streams of Thought: A bowhunting drought ends; I’ll drink to that

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Early this spring, Craig the architect and I embarked on a “bar project” for a variety of possibly poor reasons. First, Craig’s family had sold its lumber-yard business, and I figured he had time on his hands – along with skills I sorely lacked.
Second, as I purged excess items from my house, I came upon shelves of never-been-used wine and cocktail glass.

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