This table lists top fishing times and days for the coming weeks. For best results, begin fishing one hour before and continue one hour after the times given. Times apply to all time zones.

Sunday..............11:55 p.m.................................................................................Noon

Monday.............Midnight...............Read more

MINNEAPOLIS -- With mounting evidence of damage to loons, eagles and other wildlife, environmental groups are asking Minnesota to try again to outlaw or limit the use of lead in fishing gear, birdshot and rifle bullets.

Their petition, filed last month with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, would require hunters to use steel, ...Read more

Rachel Germain remembers distinctly when wolves became a problem for her family. It was winter 2012-2013, she said, "and it's just gotten worse since then."

A college student, Rachel, 19, of Somerset, Wis., first accompanied her parents on deer hunts when she was a young girl. Her grandpa had built a cabin near Moose Junction, Wis., years ago, ...Read more

This table lists top fishing times and days for the coming weeks. For best results, begin fishing one hour before and continue one hour after the times given. Times apply to all time zones.

Sunday..............6:50 p.m....................................................................................7:15 a.m.

Monday.............7:40 p.m.........Read more

Sometimes you need to stack the odds. You can hook a kid on the sport of fishing at the Cold Spring Harbor Fish Hatchery & Aquarium, where there's a high likelihood your little one won't go home empty-handed. "This is really designed for someone who's never caught a fish before," says Steve DeSimone, hatchery director. "It's not quite shooting ...Read more

This table lists top fishing times and days for the coming weeks. For best results, begin fishing one hour before and continue one hour after the times given. Times apply to all time zones.

Sunday..............6:00 a.m....................................................................................6:30 p.m.

Monday.............6:55 a.m.........Read more

DULUTH, Minn. -- Janelle Long was walking up to the bird counting platform at Hawk Ridge when a sharp-shinned hawk fluttered by, alternately flapping then soaring, maybe looking for a little songbird to munch on.

While many hawks prefer a tail wind on their migration south, the sharp-shins don't seem to care as much, and this one was flying ...Read more

This table lists top fishing times and days for the coming weeks. For best results, begin fishing one hour before and continue one hour after the times given. Times apply to all time zones.

Sunday..............12:40 a.m.................................................................................1:00 p.m.

Monday.............1:20 a.m...........Read more

MINNEAPOLIS -- When 10-year-old Colby awoke last Wednesday morning, he was in a fishing kind of mood. He and his parents were vacationing near Park Rapids, Minn., and Colby had climbed out of bed early, grabbed his rod and reel and headed with his mom, Kaia, and dad, Seth, for Mantrap Lake.

A skilled angler, particularly for his age, Colby ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS -- Minnesota pheasant numbers fell 17% from a year ago, according to roadside counts completed by the Department of Natural Resources (DNR).

Throughout the state's pheasant range, an average of 37.4 pheasants were observed per 100 miles during the survey conducted July 30 to Aug. 18. The pheasant count this year was slightly lower ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS -- Alex Robinson wouldn't be surprised if in the past month the ghosts of Ernest Hemingway, Zane Grey, Teddy Roosevelt and Aldo Leopold, among many other celebrated writers, artists and conservationists, have peered over his shoulder.

Robinson, 31, who lives in the Twin Cities, was appointed editor-in-chief of Outdoor Life magazine ...Read more

This table lists top fishing times and days for the coming weeks. For best results, begin fishing one hour before and continue one hour after the times given. Times apply to all time zones.

Sunday..............2:00 p.m...................................................................................2:30 a.m.

Monday.............2:55 p.m..........Read more

ON LAKE VERMILION, Minn. -- These are former soldiers and sailors and Marines who have been through it all and back -- from picking bodies out of the water after a Japanese suicide attack on a ship, to a year of firefights in Vietnam, to shuffling secret documents in and out of Libya.

So what did these six U.S. military veterans spend most of a...Read more

This table lists top fishing times and days for the coming weeks. For best results, begin fishing one hour before and continue one hour after the times given. Times apply to all time zones.

Sunday..............7:15 a.m...................................................................................7:45 p.m.

Monday.............8:10 a.m..........Read more

MINNEAPOLIS -- They lived through the fall of the dinosaurs and were there as the Great Lakes formed, surviving as a species relatively unchanged for some 200 million years. But the life of the sturgeon of North America may be nearing its end.

Over the past century, lake sturgeon have lost more than 99% of their population and have been wiped ...Read more

This table lists top fishing times and days for the coming weeks. For best results, begin fishing one hour before and continue one hour after the times given. Times apply to all time zones.

Sunday..............2:00 a.m...................................................................................2:20 p.m.

Monday.............2:40 a.m..........Read more

RANDALL, Minn. -- Bob Hines, a retired well driller in central Minnesota, has bought many guns in his lifetime. He supports the Second Amendment and voted straight Republican in recent elections.

But he's also tired of hearing stories of mass shootings on the news. And while he's not sure anything can be done to curb the violence at this point,...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS -- Dave Olfelt, 58, was named Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Fish and Wildlife Division director last month by Commissioner Sarah Strommen, replacing Jim Leach, 65, who retired in April.

Olfelt has worked for the DNR 31 years, most recently as a regional wildlife manager stationed in Grand Rapids. He's also held management ...Read more