MINNEAPOLIS — Some 60,000 turkey hunters are expected to head out into farms, fields and woods across Minnesota last week in the hopes of hearing the scratchy, echoing cry of a tom and calling one in. Spring turkey hunting season, which ends May 31, has begun.

Turkeys, which were once completely wiped out of Minnesota and nearly all of the ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota anglers who want to fish anytime soon are still going to need paper licenses despite last year’s assurance by the Department of Natural Resources that outdoors licenses and registrations would go digital well before opening day.

The agency has been working on the $3.5 million project since 2021 and last year hired a ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — Black bears, deer, bobcats and other wildlife used to cross Route 220 in the forests near State College, sometimes to their detriment and that of motorists.

When the I-99 extension replaced that section of Route 220 with five wildlife underpasses, animal and car collisions dropped from nine animal deaths in 2009 to one in 2010, ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — At his cabin about three hours north of the Twin Cities, Alan Page carries on a tradition that he and his late wife, Diane Sims Page, started more than a decade ago: tapping maple trees and making gallons of sweet, sticky syrup.

The former Minnesota Supreme Court justice and Hall of Fame NFL football player continues to make the...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Last week, I wrote about birders, bikers and hikers and how they’ve been getting a free ride in many instances on the backs of hunters (and anglers) who have borne the brunt of conservation funding in Minnesota.

I focused on the purchase and maintenance of the more than 1,500 state wildlife management areas (WMAs) in Minnesota...Read more