
Minnesota Cuffs & Collars: Better be aware of burning restrictions
Minnesota cuffs and collars are field reports from DNR conservation officers. These reports are from the March 21, 2025, edition of Outdoor News.

Minnesota cuffs and collars are field reports from DNR conservation officers. These reports are from the March 21, 2025, edition of Outdoor News.

As the ice-fishing season winds down, I’m gladly putting my gear in storage and also properly servicing the items for extended storage.
Here are some thoughts on proper off-season care of your ice-fishing gear.

That other March Madness – the annual spring snow goose migration and the hunting season that comes with it – is well under way, with birds already moving deep into North Dakota.
During the

Since 2011, the Walk-In Access program has enrolled parcels of 40 acres or larger with high-quality natural cover. These parcels are usually enrolled in conservation programs such as the Conservation Reserve Program or Reinvest in

Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the March 21, 2025, edition of Minnesota Outdoor News.

The annual – mostly, but for a few interruptions – sojourn my friends and I make to Ontario to fish each spring has, over the years, come with a hiccup or two when crossing the

In 2023, the Minnesota Legislature decided to allocate 1.5% from the Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund (lottery proceeds) to the DNR to oversee a community grants program for local environment restoration work.
In

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is reopening the public comment period for a proposed rule to list the monarch butterfly as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act.
The proposed rule includes

I’ve always been a low-budget kind of outdoorsman. Why would I get a hotel when I can sleep in my truck?
For years, I would spend several nights of the deer-hunting season sleeping in what
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