Minnesota Letters to the Editor
Site Staff
August 3, 2023
Commentaries and letters are the opinions of the writers, not necessarily those of Outdoor News
Opinion
Outdoor Insights: Replacing Land Tawney no easy task for Backcountry Hunters and Anglers
Rob Drieslein
July 26, 2023
News last week that Backcountry Hunters and Anglers CEO and President Land Tawney will be stepping down startled the nation’s outdoors advocates. Tawney has been the pied piper of public lands for the growing organization
Commentary: Minnesota DNR commissioner responds to Federal criticism of SNA lead ban
Minnesota DNR
July 26, 2023
The following is a letter sent by DNR Commissioner Sarah Strommen to Federal Ammunition in response to recent correspondence from Federal, which appeared in the July 14, 2023, Outdoor News commentary. That letter/commentary addressed Federal’s
Minnesota Letters to the Editor: A vote of confidence for lead ammo ban on SNAs
Minnesota Letters To The Editor
July 26, 2023
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the July 28, 2023 edition of Minnesota Outdoor News.
Commentary: How do squirrels beat summer heat?
Jerry Davis
July 25, 2023
Maple trees, gray and fox squirrels discovered, have a natural system of providing solar protection and geothermal cooling.
The tree’s simple, oppositely-arranged leaves are excellent at blocking much of the radiant energy that could
Commentary: Minnesotans to vote in ’24 on environment’s share of lottery proceeds
Matt Doll / Minnesota Environmental Partnership
July 23, 2023
In the Minnesota Environmental Partnership’s recent 2023 legislative wrap-up, we covered many of the tremendous victories the environmental community won at the State Capitol this year.
But one of our most important – and
A longtime angling advocate, Minnesota’s Frank Schneider Jr. would’ve approved of 2023 support for fishing
Ron Schara
July 23, 2023
This is a good time to remember Frank Schneider Jr. Until he died in 2005 at the age of 86, Frank was a one-man force on behalf of fishing. Unpaid and unafraid, Frank attended countess
Streams of Thought: Was Minnesota’s dry spring too dry for pheasant chicks?
Tim Spielman
July 20, 2023
Could a recent Outdoor News letter-to-the-editor writer have been correct? Was the spring so dry (and dew-free) that it affected pheasant production?
Stuart Thompson, of Fergus Falls, wrote the letter in our July 14
Minnesota Letters to the Editor: Kudos to Bluffland Whitetails Association on guv’s deer opener decision
Minnesota Letters To The Editor
July 20, 2023
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the July 21, 2023 edition of Minnesota Outdoor News.
