If my bird-hunting friends were a composite character, the passing of the Fourth of July holiday would mark the end of summer fishing and the beginning of bird-hunting preparation.
The Happy Prepper: The joys of readying for bird hunting season Read More »
It’s a good time to be a Lake Superior angler.
Last year, Minnesota DNR fisheries biologists found huge numbers of 1-year-old ciscoes, or lake herring, in their survey nets. It turned out to be a historic year-class from 2022 for a forage fish that serves as the base for Lake Superior’s fishy food chain. Lake trout, Chinook and coho salmon, steelhead, and even walleyes have taken advantage of the herring boom, state officials, charter boat captains, and others say, and are growing bigger and fatter.
Lake Superior’s cisco boom is creating many big fish Read More »
Before the Minnesota Falconers Association was formed 50 years ago, scores of Minnesota falconers toiled in obscurity. They practiced their ancient craft largely on their own.
Minnesota Falconers Association celebrates 50 years of falconry Read More »
State conservation and environmental groups – including Minnesota Trout Unlimited – are encouraging the public to comment on the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency’s proposed changes to two feedlot permit rules designed to reduce nitrate pollution statewide.
These permits, directed at the state’s largest animal feedlots, ”regulate the discharge of pollutants from livestock production areas and restrict the volume of pollutants entering state waters via manure land application,” according to the MPCA. The public comment period, which includes MPCA-staffed educational forums to answer questions, runs through Aug. 9.
Officials at Minnesota Sea Grant are offering a new, quick-and-easy educational tool to help anglers distinguish between wild steelhead and coho and Chinook salmon caught in Lake Superior and its tributary streams and rivers.
The organization has a free “Know the Fish. Know the Reg” decal that explains the visual differences between the fish, which are considered near-doppelgangers by anglers, guides, and state natural resources officials.
A new decal seeks to help anglers spare wild steelhead in Minnesota Read More »
Scott Roemhildt has a June tradition of pheasant-watching as he drives to work. Cup of coffee in hand, he takes the “long way” to the office as he drives slowly on gravel roads in his native southern Minnesota.
“It’s something I’ve done for years, watching for pheasants in June, slowly driving the backroads,” said Roemhildt, Minnesota DNR southern region director and a devout pheasant hunter. “The hour after sunrise is a great time to see new broods as hens bring their chicks to gravel roads in the morning to warm up and dry off.”
Minnesota wildlife officials dread the toll spring rains took on pheasants Read More »
They slither like a snake and frequently exhibit peculiar behavior when disturbed, often bouncing erratically and secreting a yellow mucus. They have a light-colored head that extends around their body and resembles a common nightcrawler, the iconic fishing bait sold at shops across Minnesota.
They’re called jumping worms, and they’re an invasive, nonnative earthworm that state officials say is detrimental to soil health, native forest plants and, by extension, some fish and wildlife. Starting July 1, the sale and possession of jumping worms was prohibited in Minnesota.
New law in Minnesota targets invasive ‘jumping’ worms Read More »
An angler casting to carp on a paved street in Faribault. Kayakers paddling through Valleyfair, the popular amusement park in Shakopee in the shadow of the Minnesota River.
Dead deer fawns – likely drowned – located as part of a Minnesota DNR research project. Storied duck camps on Heron Lake swimming in flood water. Manure pits reportedly overflowing at large feedlots in southern Minnesota.
The early-summer deluge of rain and recent flooding across roughly half of Minnesota after multiple years of drought has provided some bizarre and heartbreaking scenes the past two weeks.
Damage assessment to property, wildlife begins after flooding in Minnesota Read More »
When a black bear is spotted outside of its primary range in the northern third of the Minnesota – as has been the case recently in St. Cloud and locations south of the Twin Cities – the DNR’s state bear project leader, Andy Tri, generally hears about it.
Area DNR managers and others in the agency will alert him to the sightings. Social media posts have become commonplace, with a single bear-spotting resident turning the phenomenon into a Facebook talker. Invariably, Tri is asked a variation on a simple question: What are you going to do about it? The short answer: Nothing.
Bear population continues to expand across Minnesota Read More »
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