
Here’s why I need grouse hunting in my life
I’m a casual grouse hunter at best. I don’t own a pointing dog or a double-barreled shotgun. I don’t anticipate the grouse opener in Minnesota with the same zeal as I do the fishing opener

I’m a casual grouse hunter at best. I don’t own a pointing dog or a double-barreled shotgun. I don’t anticipate the grouse opener in Minnesota with the same zeal as I do the fishing opener

After two days of competition, James Hautman, an artist from Chaska, Minn., won the 2025 Federal Duck Stamp Art Contest with his acrylic painting of three buffleheads. The announcement was made at an in-person event

It’s game survey season, in case you haven’t noticed – a time for raising expectations. Or lowering them.
Recently, outdoors headlines have been filled with surveys about pheasant counts, duck numbers, grouse counts …

For many upland bird hunters, ring-necked pheasants are their gold standard. Most years, there’s significant variations in the Upper Midwest states that hold a population of these charismatic birds, but this year there seems to

Most bowhunters cross their fingers and pray to the deer gods that opening week will come with a nice cold front. This generally doesn’t work out too well. While the dreamy days of frosty mornings

Following suit with other large lakes throughout Minnesota, the Grand Rapids and International Falls DNR fisheries offices are kicking off fisheries input groups for the large lakes in their regions.
Lake Winnibigoshish, Rainy Lake,

Backcountry Hunters & Anglers is calling for the immediate reversal of Secretarial Order 3442, signed earlier this month by Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, which undermines the Land and Water Conservation Fund – America’s most successful

Most turkey hunters consider it a springtime game, when the longbeards are thundering on the roost and you’re calling them into shotgun range. Over the years an entire legion of obsessed gobbler pursuers has grown,

After getting situated around 2 p.m. to sit on a bear stand for the rest of the evening on Monday, Sept. 1, Leah Wicklund and Chuck Perkins, of Coon Rapids, Minn., saw a black bear
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