Minnesota’s Outdoor Calendar
A look at upcoming outdoors-related events from across Minnesota published in the Aug. 29, 2025, edition of Outdoor News.
A look at upcoming outdoors-related events from across Minnesota published in the Aug. 29, 2025, edition of Outdoor News.

I love dove hunting, and I look forward to the Sept. 1 opener in Minnesota each year. There isn’t a game bird that provides the challenges that mourning doves do.
Here’s a primer on

Thirteen individuals recently graduated from the Minnesota DNR’s Conservation Officer Academy and have begun patrolling Minnesota’s fields, waters, and woods. They spent nearly four months at Camp Ripley, immersed in learning all about being successful

A mix of outdoors stories from Minnesota, including information on the Minnesota State Fair.

Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Aug. 29, 2025, edition of Minnesota Outdoor News.

The lumbering flights of Canada geese and acrobatic sorties of teal and mourning doves are on tap for hunters beginning in early September.
Minnesota’s dove season opens Monday, Sept. 1, with the early teal

While the expected upcoming Minnesota bear harvest might not be as impressive as that of a year ago, weather conditions when the season kicks off Monday, Sept. 1 couldn’t be much better, per forecasts. And

St. Paul — Private landowners with open lands, such as former pastures or crop fields, can apply for financial assistance to plant trees through the Minnesota DNR‘s Field to Forest Cost-Share Program.

As we reach the late-summer fishing season, walleyes are spreading out and crappies can be difficult to find as they roam deeper water and “hide” deep into the weeds. This is a great time to
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