Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Jan. 9, 2026 edition of Minnesota Outdoor News.
More than once, as I recently worked my way from one holiday gathering to another, to visit friends and family and to eat food prepared not by me, the subject of party hunting during Minnesota’s
Hunters harvested 186,203 deer during the 2025 hunting season, which is a statewide 9% increase from the 2024 hunting season, according to preliminary figures from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. The statewide harvest was
A day after traveling from Minnesota to Afognak Island in Alaska for the opening day of hunting for Roosevelt’s elk on the island, Chase Parker, of Barnum, took down a 6-by-6 elk.
And it
Like many hunters, at the time of this writing I’m spending the final days of 2025 reflecting on another deer season. Even though this one is still going on courtesy of the late (later) muzzleloading
While new laws giving landowners and farmers more flexibility to hunt nuisance deer got a majority of the attention as the calendar flipped to 2026, a lesser-known law is expected to “clean up” the hunting
The Dec. 10, 2025, passing of former Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Secretary George Meyer brought out many observations from people who worked in the conservation trenches with Meyer.
Randy Stark, DNR retired
The 2026 Minnesota DNR Roundtable event returns Friday, with this year’s rendition occurring at the Heritage Center of Brooklyn Center. While the day’s format remains much the same as those of years past, some agenda
In 2024, after hearing reports about wild turkeys with facial lesions and warts on their faces and sometimes feet, the Minnesota DNR sought to understand the cause of the problem.
“We decided to grab
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