With nearly 500,000 firearms deer hunters in the state, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is encouraging hunters to purchase their licenses early to avoid long lines and any system issues associated with the high sales volume.
Hunters who venture into fields and forests for Minnesota's firearms deer season can expect a good deer season and ample hunting opportunities, according to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR). "We can't guarantee harvest success," said Steve Merchant, wildlife programs manager. "But we can assure hunters that good deer …
A recent assessment of Lake Mille Lacs identified a smaller than anticipated walleye population, according to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR).
Deer hunters are encouraged to share stories of exemplary behavior by nominating hunters for the 19th Annual Minnesota Deer Hunter Ethics Award. The award, sponsored by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR), Minnesota Deer Hunters Association (MDHA) and Turn In Poachers (TIP), honors a deer hunter who has exhibited …
My older son, Walter, lives in Singapore. In Singapore, a person can buy anything from Cuban cigars to designer clothes. One of the few things they do not have there is deer jerky, especially the kind made by Dad. He and his wife will be coming for a visit later …
That's that story at the start of this year's firearms deer hunting season, which opened Saturday, Nov. 5. Lou Cornicelli, wildlife research manager for the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR), said hunters registered approximately 73,000 deer after three full days of hunting. That compares with about 91,000 last year, …
With the firearm deer season underway, the Minnesota Department of Resources (DNR) urges hunters to take precautions that avoid crippling or fatal injuries when using tree stands. Three Minnesota deer hunters died in tree stand related incidents during opening weekend Nov. 5-6, while several others were injured in non-fatal accidents.
Wildlife managers from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) are again finding dead lesser scaup on Lake Winnibigoshish (Winnie) this fall.
With the state's crop harvest nearly complete, wild turkeys are becoming a common sight in residential neighborhoods and around building sites, according to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR).
In the light of a near tragedy in Anoka County this weekend, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is reminding parents to caution their children to stay off ponds, streams and other water bodies that now have a thin coating of ice.
To a non-hunter, hunting is all about the successful kill. It's about bringing down a wide-racked, rut-crazed whitetail buck, folding a duck skimming over your decoys, or centering a grouse rising out of a dogwood thicket.
When Minnesotans buy state hunting and fishing license stamps they are contributing directly to work that supports duck, pheasant, trout, wild turkey and walleye management.
The rut seems to have turned off like someone hit a switch. The breeding frenzy has gone from deer running around day and night to the more normal routine of bedding down during the day and moving mostly at dawn and dusk. It makes for much safer driving on the …
Twelve expanded permit areas will offer wild turkey hunters more flexibility and opportunity when they apply for the 2012 spring wild turkey hunt, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) said.
Iowa has a very strange way of allocating deer licenses. Non-residents, who are willing to pay any amount of money for a tag to have the opportunity to hunt deer are lucky if they can obtain one every three or four years
