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Associate Editor St. Paul Minnesota will receive about $70,000 this year to aid in its effort to determine if chronic wasting disease is present in the wild deer herd. The total of $71,248 is part

Associate Editor Madison A goose hunt in August? Unplugged shotguns and electronic calls for Canada goose hunting? It could happen in Wisconsin. A proposal by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) aimed at reducing

Sept. 26-28: Field Training the Flushing Spaniel, 8 a.m., Bong Recreational Area, Kansasville. Class limited to 20 dogs. Register before August 1. For more info contact Jolene O’Brion, 715-423-1971, or email, obrion5@wctc.net, or check out

Those lakes include Deer, Moose, Little Moose, Spider, and North Star. They’ve been managed as designated muskie lakes since the 1960s, according to Chris Kavanaugh, area fisheries supervisor. On these lakes there’s a ban on

Swans are three to four times the size of Canada geese, according to Steve Kittelson, DNR trumpeter swan restoration leader. The all-white swans and the light gray young swans also have necks equal to their

LAKE MILLE LACS Muskie reports from the north end of the lake are encouraging. The defined weed edges and points are worth working with bucktails, crankbaits, and topwater presentations. There’s been a better evening walleye

Contributing Writer Minnesota’s rabbit hunt begins Sept. 13, and according to surveys of hunters, snowshoe hares and cottontail rabbits are abundant. Combined harvests of hares and rabbits per hunter last year averaged between four and

The state’s duck season runs Sept. 27-Nov. 25. The proposed daily duck limit is six, and may not include more than four mallards (of which two may be hens), three scaup, two wood ducks, two