OUTDOORS
Outdoors - Instinctive behavior
It is amazing how nature provides for its own by what we call instinct.
Outdoors - No kill zone
Raccoon populations have grown to the point they are endangering other species.
Turkey hunting licenses now available
Turkey hunters began purchasing their licenses for the spring 2025 season starting Saturday, March 1.
Outdoors - The Super Bowl Experience
I am neither a big football fan nor an aficionado of most types of music.
Outdoors - Those strange noises
Last week, my wife, our dog, Billie, and I were spending a normal evening watching television.
Outdoors - Lessons Learned
I had not seen my bees in over a month. When the temperature is below fifty degrees, bees ball up in their hive, slowing all activity, and try to keep each other warm.
2023-24 mild winter conditions helped deer populations begin to recover
Hunters harvested more than 170,000 deer during the 2024 hunting season, up 7% statewide from the 2023 hunting season.
PUBLIC COMMENT INVITED
MN DNR evaluates progress on deer plan
Minnesota’s management of white-tailed deer populations shows numerous accomplishments, and work that remains before some goals and metrics are met
Jan. 20 is the first 2025 Free Park Day at Minnesota state parks, recreation areas
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is waiving vehicle permit fees at all 73 state parks and recreation areas on Monday, Jan. 20.
Outdoors - Let it snow
With the forecast calling for between one and eighty-four inches of snow to start falling later in the day, my wife and I decided to take a ride around the farm to check things out while we had the opportunity.
Outdoors - Beginning beekeeping
Last year, I decided it would be a good idea to raise bees
Outdoors - Little old man
Jag, our terrier, has lived a long and active life. Mostly from his own doing, it has not been an easy life.
Public input sought on draft recommendations for a temporary framework to regulate gas resource development
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, on behalf of the state’s Gas Resources Technical Advisory Committee (GTAC), invites input on draft recommendations and statutory language that would create a temporary framework to regulate development of gas resources like hydrogen or helium in Minnesota.
