
Minnesota Letters to the Editor: State and nation too slow to respond to CWD threat
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the July 12, 2024, edition of Minnesota Outdoor News.

Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the July 12, 2024, edition of Minnesota Outdoor News.

Every Minnesota hunter has heard the barred owl’s distinctive “who cooks for you!?” call. This week’s Beyond Minnesota section details a federal plan to kill barred owls in an attempt to save endangered spotted owls

The Council to Advance Hunting and the Shooting Sports (Council), in collaboration with Responsive Management, has unveiled the much-anticipated report, “Americans’ Attitudes Toward Hunting and Sport Shooting 2024.”
This extensive study provides critical insights

Recently, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that under certain conditions those of us who hunt ducks may be allowed (in 2025) up to three pintails per day versus present regulations allowing one.

It was likely in 1999 that I first wrote about gray wolves in Minnesota. Numerical goals regarding wolf populations in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan had been reached, and talk was of removing wolves from the

Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the July 5, 2024, edition of Minnesota Outdoor News.

“The more you know, the more you know you don’t know.”
Aristotle is credited with that bit of wisdom. I never met him. The Greek philosopher was born something like 300 years before Christ.

Outdoor News devoted ample space to the transfer of Upper Sioux Agency State Park to the local tribal community in February, so to be consistent, I couldn’t let the recent press release from the Minnesota

Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the June 28, 2024, edition of Minnesota Outdoor News.
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