Minnesota
The year in review: 2008
While there were plenty of significant outdoors stories in the past 12 months, the biggest one had to be passage of the dedicated sales tax amendment. Ten years in the making, it passed by 56
With dedicated funding in the bag, what now?
St. Paul – For the past 10 years, the most dominant outdoors-related theme at the Legislature has been dedicated funding for natural resources. While outdoors proponents worked on other issues, too – funding for wildlife
Questions abound as council moves ahead
St. Paul – Even after a 10-year fight to allow citizens the right to decide whether to dedicate funds to natural resources _- then the months-long campaign to ensure voters approved the measure, which they
State Roundup
Dean Bortz Wisconsin Editor MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR to all of our readers, writers, and advertisers. This is the last issue of our 15th year of publishing Wisconsin Outdoor News, and that kind
Big Six
LAKE_MILLE LACS East – There is some vehicle traffic to the mud flats now that the roads are plowed. The walleye bite has been decent on the edges of the flats in 27 feet. The
Conservationists mourn passing of Roger Holmes
St. Paul – A man whose name became synonymous with wildlife management during an era when Canada geese recovered, the turkey population blossomed, and other species made significant strides, died last week. Roger Holmes, whose
DNR sets late-season deer hunt in northwest
St. Paul – Hunters again will have the opportunity to hunt for whitetails well after the regular firearms season has ended. The DNR is holding a special late-season hunt in northwest Minnesota’s Permit Area 101
Feds make wolf ‘relisting’ official; delisting pending
Washington – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service made official last week the “relisting” of gray wolves in the Midwest, including Minnesota, where they’d been removed from the Endangered Species List just a year and
