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Minnesota Cuffs & Collars: Landowner fails to remove skunk from trap because he didn’t want to get sprayed
Minnesota cuffs and collars are field reports from DNR conservation officers. These reports are from the Nov. 29, 2024, edition of Outdoor News.
Is it ever too cold to hunt your dog? The answer involves many factors
A few weeks ago, sipping black coffee at my desk around 6 a.m., an email dropped into my inbox from an address I didn’t recognize.
It was from a reader who lives in southeastern
Steve Carney: A well-deserved bow buck, and a great Minnesota fall walleye bite
My longtime hunting buddy, Paul Schutte, of Annandale, Minn., just celebrated his 70th birthday. He almost didn’t reach this milestone after he suffered a major stroke last fall.
Paul spent the entire year rehabilitating,
Streams of Thought: How can conservation – easements, etc. – compete with wind projects? Or can it?
At the successful completion of a pheasant hunt in Murray County, Minn., just a few weeks ago, I sat on the tailgate of the Chevy and admired the blaze of a sunset and its reflection
Minnesota CWD cases are up, but remain in known zones
As of Tuesday, Nov. 26, there were 42 new confirmed cases of chronic wasting disease in hunter-harvested deer in 2024 and 34 suspected cases – all in known-CWD zones primarily in the southeastern part of
Steve Piatt: Hunting deer, and dodging them with the truck, on trips to Pa.
I was pretty confident I’d kill a deer this season, especially as the whitetail rut kicked into high gear. I just wasn’t sure whether it would be with my crossbow or my Dodge Ram.
Ralph Loos: ‘Somebody, somewhere may have broken the law hunting ducks’
One advantage of still putting out a print newspaper is being able to avoid topics with questionable news value by simply shaking my head and mumbling, “We’re not going to waste our ink on that.”<br
Fall gun hunters take 292 turkeys in Illinois
Hunters in Illinois harvested 292 wild turkeys during the 2024 fall firearms season, up a tick or two from the 262 birds taken in 2023. The 2022 fall firearms harvest was 267.
While harvest
Wardens at Work: Wisconsin man fined $10,407 for poached Grant Co. buck
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Iowa County Conservation Warden Mike Burns was a bit perplexed regarding a headless deer carcass in Grant County called in on the DNR’s anonymous tip line in December 2022.<br
