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As the turkey population continues to expand north and west across Minnesota — with U.S. Highway 2 acting as the de facto ...
St. Paul — Minnesota’s popular stream trout season opens Saturday, April 12, with quality fishing opportunities in every ...
Applications can be submitted online by clicking here, by phone at 888-665-4236, or in person at any license agent. Bear ...
The agency says 4,605 licenses across 15 northern areas of the state will be lotteried off for the 2025 season.
Prospective bear hunters have until Friday, May 2, to apply for a bear hunting license from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. Applications for the 2025 season can be submitted online, at ...
Prospective bear hunters have until Friday, May 2, to apply for a bear hunting license from the Minnesota Department of ...
It wasn’t a baseball game, though; it was a “shed hunt,” a search for antlers that whitetail bucks shed every winter on a ...
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) will update fisheries lake management plans for five lakes in Cook County in 2025 (Pike, South, Two Island, Tom, and North Shady). Lake management ...
All hunting laws apply and are enforced by Minnesota DNR conservation officers. For nonhunting users, it is advised to wear blaze orange or pink during firearms seasons to make yourself visible to ...
A hunt in the Black River zone was added in 2024. For more information on the elk hunt, visit the DNR’s elk hunting webpage. In the second opportunity, the DNR is accepting entries through Aug ...
Last year, anglers weren’t allowed to keep any walleye until August. The Minnesota DNR and Ojibwe treaty tribes drastically cut harvest more than a decade ago, concerned by a number of factors ...
The DNR says allowing rifles for deer hunting and overturning the shotgun-only rule in southern Minnesota could also thin the excess deer population. “We have issues with overabundant deer in ...