
Outdoor Insights: A right to hunt and fish… with teeth?
Only Alabama had similar constitutional language on the books prior to Minnesota, and now 24 states have it, with Florida the latest, in 2024.

Only Alabama had similar constitutional language on the books prior to Minnesota, and now 24 states have it, with Florida the latest, in 2024.

A new Minnesota catch-and-release record is in the books as Ben Erb of Bemidji landed a 31 1⁄2-inch bowfin on the Mississippi River in Beltrami County July 3.
Erb generally practices catch-and-release. He said

I’m an avid golfer, but I believe that we should shut down all the golf courses in the upper tier of the country when the goose season opens so we can put out some big

Hunting rutting whitetails can be exciting because otherwise-slow days can turn into dynamic action in seconds when a hot doe courses through your hunting area.
While there are so many things that can go

Opening-day duck hunting has little in common with mid- to late-season duck hunting for a number of reasons. Thus, preparing for a duck opener means setting aside many of the concerns hunters face later in

For Chris Wood, the proposed rollback of the so-called roadless rule is personal.
When the Trout Unlimited CEO worked for former U.S. Forest Service chief Mike Dombeck in the late 1990s and early 2000s,

It’s tough to give a fishery like Crow Wing County’s Gull Lake its proper due in a limited amount of space. There are so many pieces to this 10,000-acre system that warrant talking about, it’s
A look at upcoming outdoor-related events from across Minnesota published in the Sept. 4, 2026 edition of Outdoor News.

Minnesota cuffs and collars are field reports from DNR conservation officers. These reports are from the Sept. 4, 2026 edition of Outdoor News.
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