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Streams of Thought: Transfer of more Minnesota state lands to tribes could have widespread implications
State legislators often are accused of much taking as sessions progress – your money (taxes), gun rights, just to name a couple. But would it make you feel better to know the elected have been

Commentary: Increasing Michigan’s Upper Peninsula bear licenses would benefit the deer herd
Increasing the Upper Peninsula bear harvest by issuing more bear licenses will increase recruitment of fawns, thereby increasing the white-tailed deer population.
Black bears are major predators on fawns. Retired DNR deer researcher John

Outdoor Observations: Michigan biologists have done a fine job of managing the state’s turkey population
Turkey populations seem to be declining in many states to the south, but not so much in Michigan.
Michigan DNR Turkey Specialist Adam Bump said the state’s turkey population appears to be stable. That’s

Michigan Letters to the Editor: Here’s another good fishing movie for MON top 10 list
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the March 15, 2024, edition of Michigan Outdoor News.

Ohio Letters to the Editor: Canada gets better end of walleye stick on Lake Erie
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the March 15, 2024, edition of Ohio Outdoor News.

Commentary: Many Ohio fish species adjust routines during spring spawning urges
As St. Patrick and Mother Nature begin rolling out the green, runners of all types will take to sidewalks, dash along in organized races, down park trails, and through the rivers and streams to help

Ohio Insider: Would you take part in an antlerless-only hunt during a deer season?
We covered a lot of ground in rounding up the numbers on the recently completed 2023-2024 deer season in the last edition of Ohio Outdoor News.
But, there was one item left over from

Notes off a soiled cuff: A merger of Pennsylvania’s Game, Fish & Boat commissions possible?
Seven or eight years ago – after decades of trying – I decided to stop attempting to convince readers and leaders that the Game and Fish & Boat commissions should be merged, because having separate

Pennsylvania Letters to the Editor: Cathy Beck obit well done
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published from the March 15, 2024, edition of Pennsylvania Outdoor News.