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Habitat is the focus of Minnesota DNR’s draft pheasant, duck plans

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The Minnesota DNR is taking public comments on updated versions of the state’s duck and pheasant action plans – documents that will help guide the management of the popular game species during the next five years beginning in 2025.
All public comments must be submitted by 4:30 p.m. on Oct. 8 (see instructions below). The five-year action plans, which outline short-term strategies to help meet longer-term conservation goals, enable the DNR and its conservation partners to more frequently assess and adjust activities to changing habitat conditions that affect both ducks and pheasants.

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Per usual, opening-weekend waterfowl results varied around Minnesota

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Adam Kleinschmidt almost didn’t go duck hunting.
“Based on my scouting, I didn’t see many ducks around,” said Kleinschmidt, a waterfowl hunter and Minnesota DNR wetlands specialist. “I almost slept in.”
Almost. Kleinschmidt went. It was the duck opener, after all. By 6 a.m. he was setting decoys on a large permanent marsh on public land in Stearns County.

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What’s the status of local ducks? Minnesota hunters about to find out

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When the traditional 60-day duck season opens a half-hour before sunrise on Saturday in Minnesota, John Molkenbur, lanyard of calls around his neck, will be hunting a spit of land near Stillwater.
He will be, as he says, in his element.
“I started hunting when I was really young with my brothers; shot my first duck when I was 8 years old,” said Molkenbur, 73, of White Bear Lake and founder of the Minnesota Duck & Goose Callers Association. “The only openers I missed over the years were the four when I was in the Navy. Every year, I can’t wait to go.”

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Minnesota Pollution Control Agency finalizing report on waters that feed Lake Pepin

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The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency is soliciting public comments on its new “WRAPS” report of the Mississippi-Lake Pepin Tributaries watershed – a small, picturesque area in southeastern Minnesota that contains five cold-water trout streams.
The WRAPS report, or Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategies, is the second report for the Driftless Area watershed. The first came in 2015. Since then, several years of data collection and analysis have been incorporated into the new report.

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Research reveals extent of new challenges for waterfowlers as migration patterns evolve

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Every autumn’s Grand Passage is different.
That’s the nature of waterfowl migrations. Seasoned duck and goose hunters in every flyway – Pacific, Central, Mississippi, and Atlantic – know this well.
Some years, waterfowlers see lots of birds at roughly the same time and at roughly the same places, and the next year it could be completely different. Change is the constant.
“Year-over-year, migrations are fickle,” said a waterfowl biologist from the South. “But there’s more to the story.”

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Prospects favorable as bird hunts arrive in Minnesota

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Early-season wingshooting opportunities in Minnesota are nothing if not diverse. Big birds and small. Some migrate and others don’t. Some are found in the deep woods, while others cover prairie country. And, of course, some are thought to taste better than others.   
The good news is that three species are open for business Saturday (Sept. 14) and another opens a week later.

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Teenage boys dive into action to save drowning yellow Lab during Minnesota fishing trip

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To hear 14-year-old Jacob Jensen, of Andover, Minn., tell the story, he was having something of an out-of-body experience. He wasn’t thinking as much as he was reacting to the dire circumstances before him.
It became abundantly clear something had to be done. Time was of the essence.
His fishing buddy and close friend, 14-year-old Mason Millet, also of Andover, had the same thoughts coursing through his mind. 

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Early bird hunting in Minnesota just OK despite excellent weather

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Adam Kleinschmidt wasn’t messing around.
Last Sunday, he was up at 2 a.m. An hour and a half later, he was paddling his decoy-packed kayak in a public marsh complex in Stevens County. Unlike last year’s oppressive conditions of 85 degrees and humid, this year’s early teal opener was beyond pleasant: 50 degrees and sunny at shooting time, with just enough wind to move the decoys.

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Minnesota bears are consumed by eating in the fall in quest to put on incredible weight

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Andrew Tri is fond of working analogies.
As the Minnesota DNR’s bear project leader, Tri uses them as a way to educate the public. Take retired Olympic swimmer and multiple gold medalist Michael Phelps. When Phelps was in training, his eating habits were the stuff of legend. He regularly consumed 10,000 calories per day, much of them from junk food, because he was burning so many calories in the pool.
Tri has used the Phelps anecdote during public presentations to illustrate the black bear feeding frenzy called hyperphagia.

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