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Minnesota’s duck hunt 2023: Good and bad, dry conditions will impact the season

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Duck hunters, buckle up: Minnesota’s 2023 opener on Sept. 23 is shaping up to be a parched affair, with wetlands, shallow lakes, and river systems across the state running low and, in some extreme cases, not running at all.
The increasingly drought-addled conditions, wildlife officials say, make pre-opener scouting more important than normal. That’s true for locating and patterning ducks, as well as determining if dry conditions will affect access and mode of travel.
“Like the last few years, it’s dry across a lot of Minnesota … and that’s unlikely to change before opening weekend.”

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Table being set for upcoming U.S. Farm Bill, with plenty at stake for hunters and anglers

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In early August at Farmfest in Redwood Falls, eight members of the U.S. House of Representatives Agriculture Committee, including five from Minnesota, fielded questions – some sharper than others – about the next federal Farm Bill.
The current $867 billion Farm Bill, passed in 2018, expires at month’s end, and a new bill is a top congressional priority amid other pressing issues, including passing a federal budget. At the forum, House members heard from corn farmers and biofuel supporters, dairy farmers, and nutrition-program advocates. All have stakes in a new Farm Bill that funds their pet programs. But few questions revolved around farmland conservation and the voluntary conservation programs that are important to hunters, anglers, and conservationists.

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Soon-to-be metro wildlife management area in Minnesota’s Washington County a ‘spectacular place’

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When newcomers first set eyes on the sprawling 2,600-acre cattle ranch owned by Kelley Land and Cattle Co. in Washington County, Minn., they are invariably smitten by the property’s nearly unblemished natural amenities and beauty.
“It’s truly a spectacular place,” said Bob McGillivray, land protection director for the Trust for Public Land, a national nonprofit group. “The family has kept the property in incredibly good shape over the years.
The good news for hunters, anglers, birders, wildlife watchers, and conservationists is that a large portion of the property, also known as Kelley Farms, will become a state wildlife management area, likely in fall of 2024.

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Hunting diving ducks: Three spots to head after north country waters ice up

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A few generations ago, if you grew up hunting ducks in Minnesota or Wisconsin or anywhere in the Great Lakes region and likely beyond, there’s a good chance you cut your teeth chasing diving ducks.
From Field & Stream to Sports Afield, the era’s outdoor periodicals glamorized the pursuit of rough-water-loving bluebills, redheads, and canvasbacks and its many shotgunning disciples. The late wildlife artist, Les Kouba, painted his childhood waterfowling memories that included many evocative diver scenes, from flocks of canvasbacks lifting off mist-shrouded marshes to wave-buffeting bluebills angling into the stiff winds and spitting snow.

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Minnesota study gains insight into how brainworm impacts state’s low moose numbers

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New moose research conducted by scientists at the University Minnesota and the Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa is shedding added light on why the population of the iconic northwoods giant declined so precipitously in northeastern part of the state beginning in 2006.
Researchers say the primary driver behind the decline is brainworm, a parasite that impacts the animal’s nervous system, which can lead to paralysis and ultimately death. This has been known for years. The new research, however, discovered evidence that moose in Minnesota consume species of gastropods – slugs and snails – that are known hosts of the brainworm parasite.

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Wood ducks: Hunting tactics for these handsome, early migrators

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If ducks were models, the drake wood duck would rule the catwalk.
With iridescent chestnut, green, and purple plumage, accented in snowy white, the undeniably handsome drake woodie is one of nature’s most spectacular winged specimens. For waterfowl hunters, wood ducks can be sneaky fast, darting in from all angles, regardless of wind direction. They’re deceptively wary and have a well-earned reputation for spurning decoy spreads – unless you are well hidden and precisely where they want to be.

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Part of Minnesota’s Tamarac refuge closed to early teal hunt after request from White Earth Nation

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Citing protection of the wild rice resource from disturbance during the tribal gathering season, Tamarac National Wildlife Refuge in northwestern Minnesota has issued an emergency closure to one of its hunting units during the state’s five-day experimental early teal season, which begins Sept. 2.
Closed is Area C, the 5,618-acre northern migratory bird unit north of Becker County Highway 143, said Kent Sundseth, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service refuge manager at Tamarac. The closure was requested by White Earth Nation at a meeting earlier this year.

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All duck hunters make mistakes; the best ones learn from them

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The 20-something college graduate student unnerved me from the start.
Along with two other natural-resources students, we were hunting one of the national wildlife refuges in California’s waterfowl-rich Central Valley. It was a pretty backwater marsh, and an even prettier morning, which started slowly for the hunters. But by 9 a.m., beneath a cobalt-blue sky and a persistent cool breeze, the refuge’s ducks started moving.

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Amid dry and hot conditions, dog owners told to be aware of blue-green algae during hunts

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The dog days of summer are here, and Minnesota officials are warning dog owners to be mindful of blue-green algae poisoning, which can be lethal to canines.
State officials say recent hot weather coupled with ongoing drought conditions throughout the state have created what one official called peak conditions for an outbreak in state lakes and other bodies of water, including wetlands. The harmful algal blooms – HABs – which often resemble pea soup or spilled green paint or mats of green scum, are linked to illness in humans and animals.

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