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Minnesota Letters to the Editor: Who says all hunters want tighter duck regulations?
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the July 3, 2026 edition of Minnesota Outdoor News.
Mike Schoonveld: Can anglers aid in a solution for plastic pollution?
Twenty-two million pounds of plastic waste enter the Great Lakes each year. About half sinks to the lake bottoms, where some of it will likely remain until a future glacier reshapes the lakebeds during the
Michigan Letters to the Editor: Pulling the wool over our eyes again with this one-buck rule
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the July 3, 2026 edition of Michigan Outdoor News.
Ralph Loos: Mandatory reporting system offers good insight into Michigan’s turkey, deer harvest
Michigan’s turkey hunters followed some twists and turns on their way through the 2026 spring season – somewhat due to weather but mostly due to a significant overhaul of regulations and a whole set of
Jeff Frischkorn: Ohio DNR’s Put-In-Bay Aquatic Visitors Center well worth a visit
After touring the T-shirt outlets and ordering a pizza, a visitor still has bunches left to do in this speck of a community on South Bass Island.
One can pay to see the
Steve Pollick: Ohio summer welcomes burst of fireflies
Welcome to Summer, season of the “Silent Light,” to play on the name of the classic Christmas hymn.
The Silent Light I’m talking about here comes from fireflies, those magical, marvelous, winged beetles that
Commentary: Inland Fish Ohio comes with twists and turns, but good fun
Now in a supervisory role at Division of Wildlife District 4 headquarters in Athens, Ohio, Matt Hangsleben contacted me a month before the Inland Fish Ohio Day was scheduled to take place at Lake Hope
Tom Venesky: Motives behind some Pennsylvania hunting legislation makes no sense
There have been quite a few legislative proposals regarding hunting recently in Pennsylvania, and a lot of them don’t make sense.
A bill in the House would create a hunting and trapping education program
