Taste of the Wild: Stuffed peppers with marinara sauce
Tim Kraskey
July 1, 2024
With garden peppers in season, this is the perfect time to try Tim Kraskey’s recipe for stuffed peppers with your ground wild game meat.
Big Game
Bear population continues to expand across Minnesota
Tori McCormick
June 27, 2024
When a black bear is spotted outside of its primary range in the northern third of the Minnesota – as has been the case recently in St. Cloud and locations south of the Twin Cities
Reader Stories: There are giant black bears in Pennsylvania
Jack Keslar
June 23, 2024
I have been hunting big game for over 35 years and have been an Alaskan hunting guide for 15 of those years.
I have harvested the bears of North America: black bears, grizzly bears,
Top-scoring bear from Michigan in 2023 aged at more than 20 years old
Richard P. Smith
June 20, 2024
J.B. Martin from Kimball, in St. Clair County, Mich., shot the highest-scoring black bear from 2023 that was entered in state records maintained by Commemorative Bucks of Michigan.
He killed the trophy bruin on Sept.
Laser rangefinders — the trusty tool helping hunters make better shots for 25 years
Ron Spomer
June 15, 2024
Hey all you hunting and shooting grandpas (even you grandpas-to-be) take it from this grandpa – laser rangefinders aren’t new fangled, high-tech, or unethical. The first successful consumer model came out in 1999.
You
Minnesota DNR, Fond du Lac Band reflect on elk law that limits how big herd can grow
Brian Mozey
June 13, 2024
An issue that emerged from the 2024 legislative session focused on elk management in northwest Minnesota.
The Minnesota DNR sought more authority to grow the region’s elk population, while agricultural producers remained concerned that
Minnesota Mixed Bag: Deadline to apply for an elk tag is Saturday
Staff and News Reports
June 12, 2024
St. Paul — Hunters have through Saturday, June 15, to apply for one of the 10 elk licenses offered this year by the Minnesota DNR.
Bob Zink: Post-party illnesses a reminder of how to cook bear meat
Bob Zink
June 8, 2024
I have friends who have varying degrees of meat aversion. One will eat fish, but no other meat. One has a pet pig and will eat nothing with pork in it. Another is a “locavore.”
New laws in Minnesota aim to ease burden on imports for deer hunters, taxidermists
Brian Mozey
June 5, 2024
The 2024 legislative session introduced several new laws and statutes related to hunting and fishing for the upcoming year and beyond. One notable change involves taxidermists and the handling of deer and other big-game harvested
