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Minnesota’s spruce grouse population mostly stable

Minnesota’s spruce grouse population remains stable, but there is evidence of decline in the southern part of the species’ range.
Charlotte Roy, grouse project leader with the DNR, said the agency explored a couple

Gamebird researcher finds a new home in Minnesota

Dave Londe admits his natural resources career path wasn’t exactly straight-forward. It didn’t go from A to B to C.
Londe bobbed. Londe weaved. Londe took pre-med courses. Still, like many other college students

Four shotgunning myths that miss the mark

Misinformation didn’t start with the internet. Shooting myths flourished in hunting camps and gun shops and spread virally long before you could get your misinformation from message boards and TikTok.
Those myths hang on,

Ron Schara: Want pheasants? It’s always been a simple formula

Looking back, Minnesota pheasant hunters have gotten smarter and pheasant numbers have increased, too. It’s no coincidence. But it hasn’t happened overnight.
For example: Almost unheard of these days are pheasant hunters complaining about

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