Hunting

By Joe AlbertAssociate Editor St. Paul – This month, officers with the DNR will take to the air to look for violations of wetlands law. At a meeting late last month, lawmakers wanted to know

By Joe AlbertAssociate Editor New Ulm, Minn. – Pheasant hunters in the state last fall harvested as many birds as they had during any season since 1964. The total was about 588,000 pheasants, which was

By Tim SpielmanAssociate Editor St. Paul – The contribution by the state and private groups of about $12 million will be used in Koochiching and Itasca counties to protect more than 51,000 acres of forest

By Mike KallokStaff Writer St. Paul – The only change to Minnesota’s third consecutive early antlerless season is that fewer hunters will have to wait until November to harvest a deer with a gun. For

With dollars, DNR prepping plan to boost wetland enforcement flights By Tim SpielmanAssociate Editor St. Paul – Two years ago, the DNR’s Enforcement Division took a peek at what was possible in the realm of

State anglers, tribal fishers well short of 2007 open-water quotas By Tim SpielmanAssociate Editor Redby, Minn. – As state and Red Lake Band biologists assess the fish situation in Upper and Lower Red Lake, they

2007 elk-hunting parties go 3-for-3 By Tim SpielmanAssociate Editor Grand Rapids, Minn. – Perhaps the best news for Minnesota moose hunters whose hunt gets under way on Sept. 29 is temperatures are expected to be

By Joe AlbertAssociate Editor Bemidji, Minn. – After two years of four-bird limits, duck hunters this year can shoot six birds a day, beginning Saturday with the opening of the waterfowl season. Whether or not