Minnesota’s Outdoor Calendar
Staff Report
December 4, 2024
A look at upcoming outdoors-related events from across Minnesota published in the Dec. 6, 2024, edition of Outdoor News.
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Minnesota Cuffs & Collars: Waterfowl holding tight while water freezes around them
Staff Report
December 4, 2024
Minnesota cuffs and collars are field reports from DNR conservation officers. These reports are from the Dec. 6, 2024, edition of Outdoor News.
Minnesota Mixed Bag: St. Paul Ice Fishing Show begins Friday
Staff and News Reports
December 4, 2024
The 2024 St. Paul Ice Fishing and Winter Sports Show begins Friday and continues through Sunday at St. Paul RiverCentre. As the ice-fishing season gets under way, the show will feature more than 190 exhibits
Minnesota DNR asks public to report bear dens near Brainerd and Duluth
DNR Report
December 4, 2024
The Minnesota DNR is asking hunters and other recreationists spending time outdoors this fall to report the locations of occupied bear dens they encounter in and around the Brainerd and Duluth areas. Bear researchers with
Minnesota DNR adds to steelhead numbers in streams, Superior
DNR Report
December 4, 2024
In 2017, the Minnesota DNR began raising steelhead trout to bolster the population of these fish in streams along the North Shore of Lake Superior and in Lake Superior itself.
The program began with
Minnesota Letters to the Editor: The arms race is here; why not make things even easier?
Minnesota Letters To The Editor
December 4, 2024
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Dec. 6, 2024, edition of Minnesota Outdoor News.
Minnesota man ventures south to answer a calling in world championship
Tori McCormick
December 4, 2024
When Mike Anderson exited the calling stage in the third and final round of the 89th annual World’s Championship Duck Calling Contest in Stuttgart, Ark., on Nov. 30, his future plans had already been decided.<br
Minnesota’s deer harvest to top 2023; crossbow take nears equal footing with vertical bows
Tim Spielman
December 4, 2024
St. Paul — While Minnesota’s total deer harvest remained locked at a total of 156,509 as of Tuesday morning (the harvest reporting service remained “down” since Nov. 28, officials said), that’s a number high enough
Legislation could give more land to Leech Lake Band in Minnesota
Natalie Ryder
December 4, 2024
Minnesota U.S. Sen. Tina Smith, a member of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, is sponsoring legislation to expand on the acreage that was given from the federal government to the Leech Lake Band of
