Minnesota DNR officials tested hundreds of deer for CWD in southeastern Minnesota last weekend, the opening weekend of the the firearms deer hunting season.
The Pembina Gorge offers everything from 80-million-year-old mosasaur bones to the beauty of steep valley cliffs towering over small, isolated prairies and pockets of wetlands.
A fifth-grader in Warroad, Knox was invited to participate in the hunt through Disabled Outdoorsmen, an organization that opens doors to outdoors activities for people with disabilities.
As longtime anglers, siblings Monta and Mel Hayner find their peace fly fishing on the rivers and streams. They also encourage others to fish and care for the area's water quality.
Robert “Dr. Bob” Harris hasn’t hunted deer in several years, but traveling through Beltrami Island State Forest on this Friday afternoon brought back a slew of memories.
Minnesota’s firearms deer harvest was 55,108 after the first two days of season, DNR statistics show. That compares with slightly more than 47,000 during the 2023 firearms deer opener.
