Outdoor recreation is a huge economic driver in Minnesota, contributing $13.5 billion in gross domestic product, $23.5 billion in economic output, and supporting more than 96,000 jobs.
That’s the top-line take-away from a new
Pheasant numbers were high, the air was cool, a light breeze blew on clear skies, the grassy cover was moist with dew, and nearly all corn had been harvested from fields across southern Minnesota.
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Oct. 17, 2025 edition of Minnesota Outdoor News.
On top of Game Fair and State Fair, August in Minnesota just got even busier.
Readers of this newspaper have seen us report about the SHOT and ICAST shows, the two big trade conventions
My friend and I have been opening the duck season on a stretch of a small river the past five years, and we didn’t expect anything different. But when we arrived at the oxbow in
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Oct. 10, 2025 edition of Minnesota Outdoor News.
U.S. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum hosted a conservation leadership forum at the White House on Sept. 4 that included about 15 executives from the nation’s big outdoors groups.
In addition to Burgum,
Sadly, expectations were notably low in our particular corner of southwestern Minnesota for the 2025 duck-hunting opener this past Saturday. So low, in fact, that a couple of members of our longtime duckin’ crew opted
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Oct. 3, 2025 edition of Minnesota Outdoor News.
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