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Liberal duck seasons expected again in 2026 after results of 2025 federal survey

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When the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service released its 2025 Waterfowl Breeding Population and Habitat Survey Field Reports on July 3 – the precursor to the annual Waterfowl Population Status Report – you could almost hear the collective groan of waterfowl managers across North America.
The pilot-biologists who flew the early-spring survey across the U.S. and Canadian breeding grounds found mostly parched landscapes and dry wetlands – inhospitable conditions for breeding ducks.

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Minnesota deer, bear trackers – and their dogs – at the ready

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In a perfect world, every deer or bear hunter would make a clean kill, either with a firearm or a bow. And tracking that animal would be easy as pie.
But that world doesn’t exist. Just ask Lisa Gargulak, co-founder of Bluff Country Deer Recovery, which is part of Minnesota Tracking Dogs, a statewide network of independent trackers who help hunters with deer and bear recoveries.
“As hard as hunters try, as much work as they put in with shooting, errant shots happen for a variety of reasons,” Gargulak said. “No one wants it to happen, but that’s why we’re here if it does.”

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Hungarian partridge offer fast-flushes, challenging shots, and a taste of the Old World in America’s grasslands

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The upland hunt in the early 2000s unraveled in a postcard-perfect setting: along the rolling hills of small grain and grassland near Lemmon, S.D., just west of the walleye-rich Missouri River, where Lewis and Clark paddled and explored many moons ago.
It included three dogs – all pointers – and four hunters, all of whom were from southern states and new to the northern Great Plains and its upland hunting traditions.

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Researchers with Minnesota’s Voyageurs Wolf Project capture and collar their first black wolf

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It’s not every day you see a black wolf roaming the wilds of northern Minnesota in and around Voyageurs National Park near the Canadian border.
As wilderness happenings go, it’s a rare occurrence. That’s the word from the Voyageurs Wolf Project, which reported the black wolf Aug. 8 on its social media platforms after collaring the animal as part of its ongoing wolf research at the 218,000-acre Greater Voyageurs Ecosystem (which includes Voyageurs National Park).
“It was the first black wolf we’ve collared in our 11 years of research.”

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Wet landscape will greet early Minnesota waterfowlers

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The lumbering flights of Canada geese and acrobatic sorties of teal and mourning doves are on tap for hunters beginning in early September.
Minnesota’s dove season opens Monday, Sept. 1, with the early teal and early Canada goose seasons beginning Saturday, Sept. 6. While early bird hunters are busy preparing for the upcoming seasons, Mother Nature has altered the landscape, with multiple inches of rain blanketing parts of central, western, and southern Minnesota during the past two weeks.

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Tips and tricks to take advantage of Minnesota’s early teal and goose seasons

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One bird is small, acrobatic and creates the illusion they can fly like the wind – at speeds exceeding 50 mph. The other is large (body and wingspan), migrates in a V-shaped formation, and almost lumbers across the sky by comparison.
In the world of waterfowl, the blue-winged teal and the Canada goose have really nothing in common, except that it’s open season for both waterfowl species beginning Sept. 6 in Minnesota. The first salvo of Minnesota’s waterfowl-hunting season has duck and goose hunters in full preparation mode.

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From backwaters to oxbows, here’s how to hunt waterfowl on the mighty Mississippi

John Devney doesn’t remember a lot about his early-teen years, but he does vividly recall one moment with stunning clarity: the early October morning he shot his first duck.
He was 12 years old. It was opening day. He was hunting an island on the Mississippi River near Little Falls, a town in central Minnesota, with his father and grandfather.
“I wasn’t new to the duck blind at that point, because I had been tagging long on duck hunts for seven or eight years by then,” said Devney, chief policy officer for Delta Waterfowl in Bismarck, N.D.

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An ode to a departed Minnesota conservationist: Jeff Broberg’s passion was for trout, and the waters in which they swim

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

I first met Jeff Broberg at a Minnesota DNR watershed confab and barbecue in southeastern Minnesota in the early 2000s. He was there representing the Minnesota Trout Association. He made a lasting impression.
Two Minnesota DNR fisheries biologists had just finished an electroshocking presentation on a local trout stream, a large stretch of which had been restored after years of neglect. A group of stakeholders – Trout Unlimited members, local politicians, and farmers inside and outside of the watershed – stood streamside and ate hot dogs while various speakers praised the restoration work and the collaboration it took to complete the project.

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High-volume, low-regulation, big fun… we’re talking pigeon hunting

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They offer high-volume shooting. They decoy like champs. They’re naturally sporting winged acrobats. They’re incredibly abundant and, in the right hands, delicious to eat.
Blue-winged teal? Mourning doves? Mallards? Nope. Wild pigeons – rock pigeons, to be precise. You know those ubiquitous birds, right?

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Liberal duck seasons expected again in 2026 after results of 2025 federal survey

Minnesota deer, bear trackers – and their dogs – at the ready

Hungarian partridge offer fast-flushes, challenging shots, and a taste of the Old World in America’s grasslands

Researchers with Minnesota’s Voyageurs Wolf Project capture and collar their first black wolf

Wet landscape will greet early Minnesota waterfowlers

Tips and tricks to take advantage of Minnesota’s early teal and goose seasons

From backwaters to oxbows, here’s how to hunt waterfowl on the mighty Mississippi

An ode to a departed Minnesota conservationist: Jeff Broberg’s passion was for trout, and the waters in which they swim

High-volume, low-regulation, big fun… we’re talking pigeon hunting

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