
December roosters are escape artists; here’s how to outsmart them
By this time of the season, the dumb roosters are dead. Some soaked up a load of 6s, some got picked off by avian predators, and some probably met their demise in more bland but

By this time of the season, the dumb roosters are dead. Some soaked up a load of 6s, some got picked off by avian predators, and some probably met their demise in more bland but

My son and I were lamenting how the deer permit area we hunt in southeast Minnesota suddenly has become ground zero for new chronic wasting disease infections.
As of Tuesday, Dec. 17, there were
Cass County Sheriff Bryan Welk, in a news release, stated that on Dec. 9, at about 6 p.m., Cass County Sheriff’s Office Dispatch had received 911 emergency reports of two individuals that were traveling by

The Minnesota DNR announced late last week that chronic wasting disease had been confirmed in a wild whitetail buck harvested by a Wheaton-area firearms hunter during that season’s opening weekend.
It’s the first time

Following a series of meetings during the past five months, the Legislative Council Study Committee on Sandhill Cranes approved a proposed bill that creates some relief for farmers and offers the opportunity for a Wisconsin

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
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