There’s lake trout fishing in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and elsewhere – even on Lake Superior if Mother Nature turns her frigid best and makes enough for ice for anglers in and around Duluth and Two Harbors. There are the state’s so-called stream-trout lakes that have grown in popularity in recent years.
Winter trout-fishing options are ample across Minnesota Read More »
Delta Waterfowl has launched an ambitious new program to improve waterfowl hunting across the United States by advocating for increased habitat-improvement funding for federal and state public lands.
The effort is called Restoring Our Refuges, an advocacy campaign to “secure enhanced public funding to revitalize the health and waterfowl value of federal refuges and state-owned wildlife management areas” across the U.S.
Habitat help on the way for waterfowl? New Delta initiative focuses on refuges, WMAs Read More »
At age 85, Bill Berg’s conservation fire still burns white-hot.
The retired and respected wildlife research biologist from Knife River still has today a passion for wildlife, wildlife research, and wildlife management. That’s especially true for a game species he’s studied and describes as largely forgotten in Minnesota: the sharp-tailed grouse.
Inseparable: Minnesota’s Bill Berg and the sharptail connection Read More »
Every year, when the firearms deer season opens like it did last Saturday, bird-hunting participation across Minnesota plummets.
Indeed, many of the state’s waterfowl, pheasant, and ruffed grouse hunters take to their deer stands, with many, state officials say, casing their shotguns for good until next season.
Bird hunting in November and December can be some of the year’s best and most exciting – despite the onset of wintry elements.
Bird hunting in Minnesota takes backseat to deer, but quality hunting is ahead Read More »
The much-studied wolf population in the Greater Voyageurs Ecosystem (GVE) of northern Minnesota is at its lowest level in roughly the past decade.
The population – estimated at 100 wolves – dropped 19% the past year, according to the 2024-2025 Greater Voyageurs Ecosystem Wolf Population Report. The Voyageurs Wolf Project (VWP) recently released the report. The group’s researchers have been studying wolves in the 218,000-acre GVE (which includes Voyageurs National Park) since 2014.
From as far north as Hubbard County near Park Rapids to as far south as Olmsted County in the Rochester area, the Minnesota DNR is proposing rules changes to several state waters where harvesting fish is “restricted or otherwise differentiated from other fishing regulations.”
The DNR intends to adopt rules under the expedited permanent rulemaking process for the fisheries listed below.
Minnesota DNR proposes fish regulation changes to lakes, Pool 3 of the Mississippi Read More »
Minnesota duck hunters waiting for sustained cold weather and north-to-northwest winds to jump-start a largely stagnant autumn waterfowl migration are going to have to be patient.
Waterfowl managers in and outside Minnesota say a meaningful cold front in which temperatures drop and ice forms on waterways isn’t in the short-term forecast and could be two weeks away. Lows in prairie Canada, for example, won’t dip below freezing until early next week.
For Minnesota duck hunters, patience is again a must Read More »
A few years after I began shooting semi-automatic shotguns in the 1990s, I started taking my boom sticks to a gunsmith during the period between when summer trap leagues ended and before the bird-hunting seasons commenced.
The idea came from a friend and fellow bird hunter who is far more attentive to firearms and firearms maintenance than I am.
A little shotgun maintenance will improve your accuracy this hunting season Read More »
For the first few hours of last Saturday’s pheasant opener in Minnesota, Mother Nature smiled upon the state’s 50,000 or so blaze-orange-clad upland hunters, many of whom waited patiently at state and federal public accesses for shooting time to commence.
The 9 a.m. start was cool and crisp across most of Minnesota’s primary pheasant range, with temperatures in the low 40s and light winds. By 11 a.m., however, the wind had increased substantially, with gusts nearing 30 mph, and the temperature soared to a balmy 70 degrees by early afternoon.
Minnesota pheasant opener largely typical with crops, heat playing a part Read More »
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