The holiday season is one of the most popular times of the year for parents to give their child a hunting rifle, an all-terrain vehicle (ATV) or a snowmobile as a gift, according to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR). Therefore, it's also important to give them the second …
For more than a month, our dogs have come up on the short end of the deal. They usually run free, hunt, explore, and follow my wife and I around the farm when we are driving the Mule or going for a walk. During hunting season, their activities are severely …
Early Saturday morning, my grandson, Zane, and I were on stand waiting for his dad and uncle to drive the deer toward us. Actually, it was not all that early. Years ago, we decided a person could start the hunt at daylight or drink coffee and eat donuts until 8:30 …
The reduced number of daylight hours starts to take its toll on people after a while. Humans were designed to be outdoors, soaking up the vitamins provided by the sunlight.
My grandsons, Trevor and Zane, wanted to go rabbit hunting Saturday. They had their guns, their dog, and even a place to hunt. The only problem they seemed to have was neither of them had much experience at rabbit hunting, and their dog had no experience at all.
Question: Now is the time of year when Minnesota residents can contribute to the DNR's Nongame Wildlife Checkoff Fund. What is this money used for and how does it help wildlife?
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is taking corrective actions after the agency discovered that a DNR employee inappropriately accessed driving license and motor vehicle records without authorization to do so.
To be an outdoorsman, it is almost mandatory to have a dog. Most of us have more than one dog. A person needs different dogs for different outdoors activities. It is handy to have a bear dog if a person is bear hunting or a coon hound to hunt raccoons.
The need to manage the size of northwestern Minnesota's elk population and control depredation has prompted the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) to extend the elk hunt beginning Saturday, Jan. 12
One of the rituals that accompanies owning a dog is the morning "airing." That's code for letting the dog out to relieve itself after a long night of bladder control. For our new Labrador pup this usually happens sometime between 6:00 and 6:30 a.m.
I do my best to live by the philosophy, "Never do today what a person can put off until tomorrow." This has generally served me well, but I must admit a person can get caught occasionally wishing they had not procrastinated.
Tullibees (also known as cisco or lake herring) are a coldwater fish that live in many of the nicest lakes in Minnesota. They provide excellent forage for trophy walleye, northern pike, muskellunge, and lake trout. A requirement for cold, well-oxygenated water allows them to primarily live in deep lakes that …
There are many Minnesota festivals and events that celebrate local traditions; some even celebrate oddities and peculiarities. One such event is the self-proclaimed International Eelpout Festival, held in February each year in Walker, Minnesota, on Leech Lake. Until some creative locals got the bright idea for this festival three decades …
After eight years of monitoring and aggressive management, bovine tuberculosis (TB) is undetectable in wild deer in northwestern Minnesota, according to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR). Bovine TB was first discovered in area cattle operations and wild deer near Skime, Minn., in 2005.
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) recently accepted a donation of 2,751 acres of land in Cass County in north-central Minnesota from The Nature Conservancy.
