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Minnesota Mixed Bag: Bear hunters have until May 3 to apply for license
A total of 4,030 licenses are available in 15 quota areas where licenses are limited for the 2024 season, which opens Sunday, Sept. 1, and closes Sunday, Oct. 13.
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Comment period nears close for management plan on Minnesota’s popular Lac qui Parle WMA
It’s last call for comments on the Lac qui Parle Wildlife Management Area’s master plan.
The Minnesota DNR is asking the members of the public interested in the popular WMA in west-central Minnesota to
Glenn Sapir: Learn from my mistakes in the turkey woods
Some people might consider me an expert turkey hunter. I’ve hunted them for some 45 years. I’ve shared the woods with some of the greatest turkey hunters of our time. I’ve hunted turkeys in 11
Christine Thomas: Luck is a lady in the turkey woods
I started the 2024 turkey season by taking a youth hunter out on the Saturday morning of the youth season. He had a truncated opportunity for hunting due to the first baseball practice of his
2024 New York Great Lakes Preview: Lake Ontario full of promise and choices
Lake Ontario, a shared natural resource between two countries, may have been named after the Iroquois Native American word meaning “beautiful lake” or “sparkling water.” The name appeared on maps for the first time as
To the chagrin of waterfowlers, Canada geese becoming more suburban in Illinois
While hunters have been seeing fewer and fewer Canada geese from blinds along the state’s rivers in the fall, people living in Illinois cities and towns are noticing more and more of the birds –
Cool, wet weather does not dampen turkey hunting as Minnesotans blow past season ‘A’ harvest record
The spring wild turkey-hunting season in Minnesota is just two weeks old, but the DNR reports a record-setting pace of harvest following the mild 2023-24 winter.
Nate Huck, the DNR’s resident game bird specialist,
Mike Raykovicz: Thoughts on New York tree stand injuries, turkeys and bald eagles
It wasn’t too long ago state game agencies throughout the country didn’t track tree stand related accidents as “hunting” accidents or incidents. That changed in 2017 when Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Basil Seggos directed
Wisconsin DNR confirms first case of CWD in wild deer from Pierce County, baiting and feeding bans start May 15
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources confirmed the first positive test result for chronic wasting disease (CWD) in a wild deer in Pierce County. The deer was sick and dispatched in the town of Spring
