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Outdoor Insights: What’s Minnesota doing right when it comes to wild turkeys?
Minnesota blew the lid off its previous record spring wild turkey harvest last year, and the first half of 2025 has kept pace with 2024.
My daughter, my dad, and I must’ve hit the midseason
New York lawmakers to focus on bills after budget delay
On April 28, nearly a month after the April 1 deadline, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced an agreement had been reached with the state’s legislative leaders on key priorities in the Fiscal Year 2026
New York’s turkey hunters battle some wet conditions to bag their birds
While some areas of New York remained dry to the point where wildfires continued to be a risk this spring, rainy weather has plagued many parts of the state as of late, and surely played
New York’s statewide fishing and hunting report on May 8, 2025
Fishing seasons in full swing and turkey hunters still have time to fill a tag. Here’s a look at the New York fishing and hunting report on May 8, 2025.
Off-colored turkeys caught on camera in central Minnesota
Responding to a recent story in Outdoor News about an odd-colored turkey caught on camera in the Grey Eagle area, reader Doug Wonders, of Motley, sent us a couple of photos he’s captured on trail
Minnesota’s opener features some of the year’s best fishing for multiple species
The Minnesota fishing opener arrives this Saturday, May 10, and if you haven’t heard, it’s kind of a big deal. In terms of participation, there’s no other state in the Midwest that compares. Anglers come
Pinpointing what led to a great week in the turkey woods
It was hard to believe we weren’t hearing anything on the final morning of Minnesota’s first turkey-hunting season this year.
Where were the gobbles? This was in stark contrast to the two mornings I
Pennsylvania Game Commission has high hopes for gobbler season harvest
That might be tough to beat this year, especially because the statewide flock contains a lot of three-year-old and older gobblers, the toughest kind to fool. But Casalena is excited and thinks the rest of
Michigan groups angry that dog quota not raised for bear training season
Misconceptions about bear hunting contributed to the Michigan Natural Resources Commission’s rejection of a dog training proposal in April, but hound hunters aren’t giving up.
The NRC voted 3-3 in April on a compromise
