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Group cites lack of specifics in critique of Minnesota’s Red Lake Wildlife Management Area plan

Hunting, Minnesota, National Hunting, National News, News / Tori McCormick

A watchdog group composed primarily of retired Minnesota DNR professionals is calling out DNR planners over “major concerns” it has with the agency’s recently released draft master plan for Red Lake Wildlife Management Area in northwestern Minnesota.
In a four-page letter emailed to Minnesota DNR Fish and Wildlife Director Dave Olfelt and Wildlife Section Manager Kelly Straka, WMA-AMA Stewardship Network founding members Craig Sterle and Gary Drotts detail their concerns about the draft plan, which, they say, is short on specifics, including language on the management of the WMA’s forested areas, and long on potential loopholes that could affect wildlife production in the future.

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Minnesota DNR faces smoke from Canadian wildfires on the spring waterfowl survey

Featured, Hunting, Minnesota, National Hunting, National News, News / Tori McCormick

Steve Cordts, Minnesota DNR waterfowl staff specialist, has flown the state’s May aerial waterfowl survey for 18 years.
During his years counting ducks, geese, swans, and other migratory birds, Cordts said high winds, thunderstorms, fog, and snow have all conspired against him and his pilot from flying the survey on any number of spring days. This year, another natural happening kept them grounded.
“Smoke,” he said. “Heavy smoke.”

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Book sheds light on duck camp’s rich history in Minnesota

Featured, Features, Home Page News, Hunting, Minnesota, National Hunting, National News, News / Tori McCormick

Steve Knutson freely admits that he didn’t know the first thing about writing a book, let alone self-publishing one. The entire process, more or less, began as a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
“I really didn’t have a clue,” said Knutson, an avid waterfowler from Apple Valley, Minn., laughing. “I had no idea what I was getting myself into.”
The book, which took roughly six-plus years to complete, features duck camps dating back to the 1860s and to the present.

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Minnesota DNR releases new draft plan for Red Lake Wildlife Management Area

Featured, Hunting, Minnesota, National Hunting, National News, Nature Page & Night Sky, News / Tori McCormick

The last time the master plan for Red Lake Wildlife Management Area in northwestern Minnesota was updated, 3M company began selling Post-It Notes, former Beatles member John Lennon was killed by a crazed fan, and the U.S. Olympic men’s hockey team beat the Soviet Union on its way to winning a gold medal in Lake Placid, New York.
Much has changed on Red Lake WMA since 1980, the year the last plan was written and formalized – and intended to cover a 10-year period. The updated 119-page draft plan summarizes the management activities on the 325,000-acre WMA, the state’s largest.

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Upcoming tournament in Minnesota is a nod to fly fishing for the “illustrious carp”

Featured, Fishing, Home Page News, Minnesota, National Fishing, News / Tori McCormick

Evan Griggs and his buddy called it “The Amazon.” A watery jungle of sorts in Minnesota’s urban core.
The location in question: a city park on Minnehaha Creek in Minneapolis. This was spring 2013, and serious flooding had pushed water over the creek’s banks and into the woods on both sides. Riding by on their bikes, Griggs and his friend heard some loud thrashing noises in the woods – the telltale drama of carp rooting around – that piqued their interest.

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Here’s where to catch a ‘humpback’ in the Great Lakes area

Fishing, Fishing, Fishing, Fishing, Fishing, Fishing, Fishing, Home Page News, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, National Fishing, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin / Tori McCormick

If you do a quick online search for Alaska fly-fishing guides who target pink salmon, you’ll get plenty of hits.
After all, pink salmon are the most abundant Pacific salmon, and guides are more than willing to cater to clients who like to experience prodigious river runs of early-autumn fish that are often über-easy to catch with flies, with light tackle, and other gear more commonly associated with spring-creek trout. If you believe the hype, 100-fish days on some rivers are a real thing and not just marketing hyperbole. It can, and has, happened.
Try that same online experiment for the Great Lakes, however, and your search is far from a target-rich environment.

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3M to sell miles of undeveloped shoreline on Minnesota’s Mantrap Lake

Featured, Home Page News, Minnesota, National News, Nature Page & Night Sky, News / Tori McCormick

Late last month, the morning after returning from a trip to California to take in the state’s iconic, towering redwoods, Rich Halvorsen’s phone lit up.
Halvorsen, president of the Mantrap Lake Association in Hubbard County near Park Rapids, said the messages were about Twin Cities-based 3M Company’s decision to sell its 680-acre Wonewok resort and conference center on the lake as part of a company cost-cutting strategy that also includes thousands of layoffs.

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Minnesota’s Lake Pepin isn’t a preferred opener option, but maybe it should be

Featured, Features, Fishing, Home Page News, Minnesota / Tori McCormick

Although it’s one of the Minnesota DNR-managed 10 large lakes, Lake Pepin likely doesn’t top the list for most walleye anglers as a primo destination for the May 13 fishing opener.

The southeastern Minnesota lake doesn’t generate splashy headlines or get the attention given such hallowed fisheries as Lake Mille Lacs, Upper Red Lake, Rainy Lake, or that breathtakingly scenic system known as Lake of the Woods. And Minnesota’s much-vaunted mom-and-pop resort culture doesn’t exist on Lake Pepin’s windswept shores.

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Minnesota’s river anglers encouraged to be patient as water levels steadily drop

Featured, Fishing, Home Page News, Minnesota, News / Tori McCormick

As flood waters continue to recede in the state’s river systems, state law enforcement and fisheries officials are asking anglers to exercise caution as they get back on the water.
High water for roughly three weeks along the state’s largest river systems – the Mississippi, St. Croix, Minnesota, and others – closed public boat ramps, halted barge traffic, swamped marinas and campgrounds and hiking trails, and deluged restaurants and other establishments that anglers frequent.

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Group cites lack of specifics in critique of Minnesota’s Red Lake Wildlife Management Area plan

Minnesota DNR faces smoke from Canadian wildfires on the spring waterfowl survey

Book sheds light on duck camp’s rich history in Minnesota

Minnesota DNR releases new draft plan for Red Lake Wildlife Management Area

Upcoming tournament in Minnesota is a nod to fly fishing for the “illustrious carp”

Here’s where to catch a ‘humpback’ in the Great Lakes area

3M to sell miles of undeveloped shoreline on Minnesota’s Mantrap Lake

Minnesota’s Lake Pepin isn’t a preferred opener option, but maybe it should be

Minnesota’s river anglers encouraged to be patient as water levels steadily drop

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