Minnesota

By Joe Albert Staff Writer Watson, Minn. – Pheasant hunters, it appears, believed the pre-season hype. While some escaped to the northwest to hunt deer, plenty of hunters followed tradition and hit the fields for

By Lauran Neergaard AP Medical Writer Washington (AP) – Deer probably spread the brain-destroying illness chronic wasting disease through their saliva, concludes a study that finally pins down a long-suspected culprit. The key was that

By Joe Albert Staff Writer St. Paul – Pheasant hunters in Minnesota are riding a wave of good weather and lots of habitat. So much so that modern-day harvest records could drop in the upcoming

By Joe Albert Staff Writer St. Paul — Changes to the way land appraisals for the Wetlands Reserve Program are done have officials at the Natural Resources Conservation Service working harder to enroll landowners into

By Joe Albert Staff Writer St. Paul — For the second consecutive year, hunters don’t have to wait until November to target deer with a gun. For one weekend this month – Oct. 14 and

By Joe Albert Staff Writer Bismarck, N.D. — Current provisions in the Farm Bill are contributing to the loss in the Prairie Pothole Region of the native prairie important to duck production, according to Ducks

By Tim Spielman Associate Editor Walker, Minn. — When 4 p.m. rolled around on Sunday of Minnesota’s 2006 duck opening weekend, most hunters left their blinds feeling mostly satisfied. That’s according to DNR officials, conservation