Sharp-tailed grouse wing samples needed
Sharp-tailed grouse hunters in Minnesota and North Dakota are being asked to send in wing samples from harvested birds. The samples will go through DNA analysis and be used to evaluate the genetic ...
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Streams of Thought: Details on a Minnesota bill for bird groups
But wait, you say. I thought charitable conservation groups such as these already were exempt from the state sales tax.
Free license now required for small game hunters younger than 16
The new license requirement, mandated by the Legislature in 2008, affects a number of popular game species including squirrel, rabbit, grouse, pheasant and waterfowl. The new youth small game hunting ...
Wear blaze orange for most small-game hunting
Blaze orange is required for most small-game hunting, according to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. Blaze orange is the most easily seen and recognized color against a natural background ...
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Inside the Outdoors: Hunters can use the off-season to find new opportunities
An experienced hunter can often predict from evidence on these maps whether an area is likely to hold the game he seeks. In ...
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After the Feds Kept Grizzlies on the Endangered Species List Last Month, State Leaders Try to Remove Them
Mountain West communities are split over the USFWS’ decision to manage isolated bear populations as one. But many agree that ...
Get into the woods with squirrel, rabbit hunting
Even into the depths of winter after other hunting seasons have passed, there is still time to hunt gray and fox squirrel, cottontail rabbit, jack-rabbit and snowshoe hare in a season that runs ...
Anderson: With crossbow’s wider use, is the sun setting on the ‘old way’ of bow hunting?
Like a boomerang more than an arrow, the crossbow controversy is coming back to the Legislature. Some background: In May 2023, near the end of that year’s legislative session, a conference committee ...
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Harold Brutlag, Maple Lake
Harold Delbert Brutlag, 92, died January 28 at home following complications from Melanoma. Harold was born October 31, 1932 ...
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Rob Drieslein
Angling advocacy group MN-FISH held its annual summit last Tuesday in St. Paul ... based Backcountry Hunters and Anglers has left the organization to join the Ruffed Grouse Society/American Woodcock ...
The dance of the greater sage grouse
Looking up into the dark Wyoming night sky, all the stars in the Milky Way were shining so brightly it looked like white paint had been splashed across the sky from horizon to horizon. I blinked ...
SnoCountry Mountain Reports
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