Opinion
Streams of Thought: Nominate outdoor leaders from your Minnesota communities
Tim Spielman
July 18, 2024
It’s nearly August (how can that be?), so it’s the time of year again when we at Outdoor News send out the call for nominations for our Outdoor Leaders Award.
Selecting winners of our
Minnesota Letters to the Editor: Boat inspection inequity
Minnesota Letters To The Editor
July 17, 2024
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the July 19, 2024, edition of Minnesota Outdoor News.
Commentary: Minnesota’s floods have human fingerprints
Matt Doll / Minnesota Environmental Partnership
July 11, 2024
Not long ago, large areas of Minnesota – basements, roads, fields – were underwater. From the Minnesota River Valley to northern St. Louis County to areas of the Twin Cities, communities faced some of the
Minnesota Letters to the Editor: State and nation too slow to respond to CWD threat
Minnesota Letters To The Editor
July 10, 2024
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the July 12, 2024, edition of Minnesota Outdoor News.
Outdoor Insights: A $235 million plan to kill half a million barred owls to save spotted owls
Rob Drieslein
July 10, 2024
Every Minnesota hunter has heard the barred owl’s distinctive “who cooks for you!?” call. This week’s Beyond Minnesota section details a federal plan to kill barred owls in an attempt to save endangered spotted owls
Commentary: 2024 report shows public support of hunting, sport shooting seeing a decline
Site Staff
July 9, 2024
The Council to Advance Hunting and the Shooting Sports (Council), in collaboration with Responsive Management, has unveiled the much-anticipated report, “Americans’ Attitudes Toward Hunting and Sport Shooting 2024.”
This extensive study provides critical insights
Commentary: A grateful duck hunter’s take on pintail proposal
Dave Zentner
July 5, 2024
Recently, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that under certain conditions those of us who hunt ducks may be allowed (in 2025) up to three pintails per day versus present regulations allowing one.
Streams of Thought: A level-headed discussion about wolves
Tim Spielman
July 4, 2024
It was likely in 1999 that I first wrote about gray wolves in Minnesota. Numerical goals regarding wolf populations in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan had been reached, and talk was of removing wolves from the
Minnesota Letters to the Editor: Sharing a classic ‘first day of issue’ with fellow readers
Minnesota Letters To The Editor
July 3, 2024
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the July 5, 2024, edition of Minnesota Outdoor News.
