
Minnesota’s statewide fishing and hunting report on Dec. 18, 2024
Ice thickness continues to improve across the state. Here’s a look at the Minnesota fishing and hunting report on Dec. 18, 2024.

Ice thickness continues to improve across the state. Here’s a look at the Minnesota fishing and hunting report on Dec. 18, 2024.

After roughly a decade since the last examination, the Minnesota DNR will conduct a pheasant hunter survey beginning in the middle of January.
Dubbed a “mixed mode survey,” the goal is to survey 4,500

Minnesota DNR officials say evidence is pointing to avian influenza as the cause of death of several Canada geese and some swans reported dead on the ice – typically next to open-water locations – of

On Oct. 9, my black Lab was the first to make the discovery. Going about her morning-relief rituals, she began an incessant barking – not the usual hey-neighborhood, I’m-up, sporadic barks.
At the far

It had been three weeks since the start of Minnesota’s regular duck-season opener, and it was another day of blue skies, no wind, and nearly 80 degrees. Not exactly ducky weather.
We were at

There’s much focus on October ruffed grouse hunting, which makes sense. The season is just kicking off, the woods are pleasant, and the birds are scattered across the cover in a fairly even distribution. That’s

John Cooper, 80 years old and with a new set of knees, still rises before the sun, dons waders, sets up decoys and tries to call in ducks.
“I love waterfowl hunting,” he whispered,

We who have grown up in hunting families don’t often consider the financial obstacles for those who did not, but are hoping to embark on a hunting career.

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) announced on Thursday that a deer harvested near Wheaton in western Minnesota during the opening weekend of firearms season has tested positive for chronic wasting disease.
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