Variety
New migration maps serve as tools to help big game in West
The life-or-death journey made by mule deer during the second-longest big game migration in North America came down to their ability to squeeze through a fence — a discovery made by scientists using wildlife GPS tracking techniques to map animal migrations in the West in unprecedented detail.
Outdoors
Anderson: Generations hunt together, relate to land
Four generations of hunters shared a sense of place Saturday morning for the Wisconsin firearms opener, and Norb Berg, 88, has passed his down.
Variety
Exhaustion, injury, freezing cold: This Beargrease dog race competitor braves it all to win
Beargrease competitors — human and canine — live for the race, despite grueling conditions and dangers along the trail.
Local
DNR: Opening weekend deer harvest up 2.3% from 2019
Hunters killed slightly more deer during opening weekend of Wisconsin's traditional nine-day gun season than last year, state wildlife officials said Tuesday.
Outdoors
Landmark book from 1995 by pioneering Minnesota conservationist gets update
John Tester's "Minnesota's Natural Heritage" gets an update on its 25th anniversary.
Local
Rare albino deer spotted in northern Wisconsin
Albino and all-white deer are protected and cannot be hunted in Wisconsin.
Outdoors
Anderson: Anglers seeking all 50 state fish need help in Iowa
Channel catfish in Iowa are so far eluding a pair of Virginia teens on a special quest.
Outdoors
Some tales of success: Minnesota hunters make up some lost ground
Barb Keller, big game program leader with the Department of Natural Resources, said the firearms harvest of 133,317 whitetails will grow with late registrations and with the kickoff Saturday of an extra season in the southeast.
Outdoors
Minnesota wildlife's approach to winter is a mix of strategies
During the winter untold millions of animals — toads, frogs, salamanders, snapping turtles, garter snakes, bats, wood ticks, mosquito larvae and box elder bugs — are hibernating across Minnesota.
Outdoors
The cabin on Bad Medicine Lake was a blessing through and through
Cabin Country: an idyllic escape and gathering place in the Northwoods for more than 37 years
East Metro
Severed feet of four bald eagles, other raptors found in Woodbury
Federal authorities are offering a $2,500 reward for information in the case.
Outdoors
Anderson: It's a Minnesota stop for pair angling to land 50 state fish
Two Virginians are on a quest to catch the state fish in all 50 states; they might need a hand with our walleyes.
Outdoors
For second time on same Minneapolis lake in recent weeks, anglers land whopper muskies
The 51-inch fish "was very fat," the angler said. "It certainly felt like it lifting it in and out of the boat."
Outdoors
Anderson: Deer camp's solitude broken by a lost voice
On a northern Minnesota plot long on tradition, a group of hunters helped a man gone astray.
Outdoors
Dark skies are a Minnesota outdoors treasure
A weeklong event puts focus on a phenomenon that has everyone from astrophysicists to land managers paying attention.
Outdoors
Minnesota deer opener was poor for harvest and CWD sampling
Harvest down nearly a third from last year; weather cited.
Outdoors
Taste the variety of a November in Minnesota's outdoors
Statewide, farmers labor to finish up combining corn and other field work, and gardeners dig rutabagas and parsnips sweetened by the frost for delicious eating, or to store for winter use.
North Metro
Not a croc: Hunter gets buck in Twin Cities, takes gator for good measure
In a nod to what a long, strange trip 2020 has been, hunter Cory Klocek said, "Only in 2020 can you go out ... for deer gun season opener in Minnesota and shoot an alligator."
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