...and bobcats to a point that is later in the year. This, he said, might lessen the conflicts between trappers and bird hunters.The current season for trapping bobcats is Nov. 24 through Jan. 26. The trapping season for fishers is from Nov...

...The shoot starts at 9 a.m. and participants must provide their own shells.The main event includes a 100-target bird-hunter-designed sporting clays course; side games will be available. According to Deep Portage, targets may be engaged with...

...MondayInexperienced youth and women hunters have until Monday to apply for a chance to step into the field with an experienced upland bird hunter at locations across much of Minnesota on Oct. 20.Co-sponsored by the DNR, hunt participants are paired with mentors...

...grouse in the woods this fall, though you might have to travel to northeastern Minnesota to find significantly more birds. Hunters in central Minnesota should have started seeing grouse rebound from the low point of their 10-year population cycle...

...Canada goose harvest states. "I remind all migratory bird hunters, including waterfowl hunters, that they must be enrolled...Bremicker. "This means that to legally hunt migratory birds, hunters must answer 'Yes' to the question on their small...

...Bolstad is confined to a wheelchair but it doesn't stop him from a life-long love of hunting. "I used to be a bird hunter," he said. "But when I moved to Hand Lake I liked watching the ducks so much I didn't want to hunt them." Bolstad...

...ducks, geese, mergansers, woodcock, snipe, rails, coots or gallinules) must identify themselves as migratory bird hunters at the time they purchase a small game or sports license. Anyone who has hunted or intends to hunt migratory birds...

...move away from lead has saved tens of thousands of birds from slow deaths. But it also has been a headache for many bird hunters who have found alternatives to lead perform poorly or are too expensive to be practical. Slowly, though, both problems...

NISSWA - At the end of a long hunting season it's sometimes nice to have things a little easier.

...Department of Natural Resources is expected to release recommendations soon urging the state's approximately 400,000 bird hunters to use rubber gloves when cleaning game birds as a precaution against contracting the West Nile virus. The plan follows...