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Ohio Letters to the Editor: No sense in banning baiting for deer as suggested here
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Jan. 17, 2025, edition of Ohio Outdoor News.

Pennsylvania Letters to the Editor: ATVs on public land a bad idea
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Jan. 17, 2025, edition of Pennsylvania Outdoor News.

Commentary: Dismayed about the changing face of big-game hunting
I’m not sure what happened to deer hunting and I’m also not sure I like it. I’m an old deer hunter right now, but I started deer hunting when I was 16 or 17 years

Commentary: Gun owners foresee less danger ahead with divided Minnesota Legislature
Gun-control advocates appear to be armed and ready to reintroduce several measures when Minnesota’s 2025 legislative session gets under way in January.
Unlike the past two years, however, anti-gun rights DFL legislators no longer

Joe Shead: Minnesota’s northeastern deer hunting bleak at best
You hear it all the time from northland deer hunters: There are no deer. There are too many wolves. The Minnesota DNR doesn’t know what it’s doing.
Usually, I just brush this kind of

Bill Hilts, Jr.: Knowledge is power for New York angler who won Walleye Slam and Fall Brawl
For Ed Hatten of Hastings, N.Y., he would be quick to agree with the phrase “knowledge is power.”
Hatten put that knowledge to use on Nov. 24, 2024, when he reeled in a

Streams of Thought: Will more land-transfer legislation emerge in Minnesota this year? Upper Red Lake Association preparing for it
Today, for me, it feels like the drama of the 2024 Minnesota legislative session just ended. Maybe it’s because some aspects of it still haunt my dreams.
But, here we are, just days away

Steve Sarley: NWTF says suburban turkeys near Chicago likely fell victim to coyotes – or age
I’m going to conclude a story (Finally, I can hear you say!) I call “The Case of the Missing Turkeys.” I began my mysterious tale here in Illinois Outdoor News and I’m ready to wrap

Minnesota Letters to the Editor: Addressing CWD threat will require sacrifice
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Jan. 10, 2025, edition of Minnesota Outdoor News.