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New dollars for Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources to enhance habitat

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A Minnesota land-and-water conservation agency is preparing to roll out a new multi-million-dollar voluntary program to improve soil health on agricultural lands that state officials hope will also improve water quality and wildlife habitat.
The Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources is slated to receive $25 million in Regional Conservation Partnership Program funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resource Conservation Service.

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As duck hunting ends in Minnesota, late goose heats up

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State officials say there’s still ample time for waterfowlers who don’t mind braving the blustery Minnesota weather to scratch their itch for a late-season hunt. Call it Minnesota’s last call for waterfowl. 
While the duck season (in the central and south zones) runs through Nov. 26, the goose-hunting season goes deep into December, with the north zone running through Dec. 22. The central and south zones close Dec. 27.

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An odd duck season in Minnesota, but opportunities remain

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Don’t winterize your duck boat or stow away your decoys just yet.
That’s the advice from state officials and others who have been closely monitoring the “moody” fall waterfowl migration as the duck season hits the backstretch and the weather turns positively balmy on the eve of Thanksgiving.

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Minnesota DNR assesses state of southeast stream trout

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As autumn plays footsie with winter, you’d be forgiven if you thought stream-trout fishing in southeastern Minnesota had ended and that fisheries managers had little to do until spring’s thaw. But nothing could be further from the truth: Trout fishing and trout management are year-around endeavors. Even the region’s trout are busy with spawning this time of year. 
“We’re open for business, that’s for sure,” quipped Vaughn Snook, Minnesota DNR assistant area fisheries supervisor in Lanesboro, on Monday.

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Cold snap expected this week likely to enhance duck hunt in Minnesota

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A push of unseasonably cold weather – complete with robust northwest winds and possibly accumulating snow for parts of northern Minnesota and set to arrive this week – not only will jump-start the fall waterfowl migration, it will send it into overdrive, state officials say. 
An Arctic weather system was expected to send temperatures plummeting throughout Minnesota late Thursday, with high temperatures on Friday at or below freezing and lows near 20 degrees for the northern third of the state – a pattern that’s forecast to last for several days. State officials expect a fast freeze-up in northern Minnesota, with ducks and geese moving ahead of the storm and accumulating ice.

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Public input sought for Minnesota’s Lac qui Parle WMA plan

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When Europeans settled the area that’s now Lac qui Parle Wildlife Management Area in western Minnesota near Madison, bison, antelope, elk, mule deer, and eastern gray wolves roamed free throughout the region. Even the occasional grizzly bear occupied the prairie landscape.
But settlement changed everything over time, including the region’s wildlife composition.
“Cultivation, fencing, and uncontrolled hunting were responsible for the reduction in number and elimination of some mammals from the Lac qui Parle vicinity.”
That quote comes from the 1997 Lac qui Parle WMA master plan, the last time the Minnesota DNR updated the document that guides management efforts on the sprawling WMA.

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Minnesota’s 2023 pheasant hunt: Are hunters in for a big season?

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Minnesota likely will never revisit the halcyon days of the 1940s and ’50s when upland hunters routinely harvested more than a million ring-necked pheasants. But on the eve of Saturday’s 2023 opener, state officials genuinely are optimistic about the upcoming season.
Buoyed by good to excellent spring nesting and brood-rearing conditions across parts of the state’s primary ringneck range, pheasant numbers statewide averaged a 10% increase from 2022, which is 26% above the 10-year average, according to the Minnesota DNR’s annual August roadside wildlife survey.

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This fall, drop your tailgate and have a ‘shore lunch’ of wild game

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Many years ago, during my eighth-grade summer, my late father went on a fishing trip to the Churchill River in northern Saskatchewan – a vast system of finger lakes and tributaries located in one of the most remote and pristine angling outposts in North America.
Aside from the stunning northwoods scenery, crystalline waters, and hurts-so-good hand and finger lacerations from catching so many walleyes and pike, my father could not stop raving about the shore lunch. He loved to tell the story of how it was prepared each day by his Cree Indian guide; how the fried walleye, crispy potatoes, and baked beans tasted better than any meal you’d ever eaten, like it had been prepared by a Michelin-starred chef; and how the trip, heightened by the wild food prepared and served in a wild setting, was a seminal moment in his outdoors life.

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A more frequent ‘spec’-tacle: White-fronted goose sightings on the rise in Minnesota

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Steve Cordts has a plan, albeit a tentative one.
In the rafters of his garage, stowed away in decoy bags, rest four dozen white-fronted goose shells, decoys that have neither seen the light of day nor a well-scouted agriculture field in some time. He took them down last autumn, but never had the opportunity to deploy them. Back into the rafters they went.
“I couldn’t find any birds in October … even though I knew some were around,” said Cordts, who last shot a white-fronted goose many moons ago in prairie Canada. “I’ve definitely been thinking about it again for this year.”
A decade or so ago, a statement like that would have been unheard of, perhaps even the ravings of a Minnesota waterfowler gone mad.

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