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From the Duluth News Tribune
published Nov. 2, 2008
Alex Spencer may get the chance to shoot at a whitetail buck sometime during Minnesota’s firearms deer season, which opens Saturday. Alex is 10 years old.
Under a change made by the Minnesota Legislature this past spring, hunters ages 10 and 11 are permitted to hunt big game this fall before taking firearms safety classes, although they must be under direct supervision and within immediate reach of a parent or guardian.
Alex, who lives in Rice Lake Township, already has hunted deer once. During this fall’s early antlerless firearms season Oct. 11 and 12 in areas north of Duluth, he sat beside his dad, Darrell Spencer, in a double tree-stand or in a ground blind. Alex had a chance to shoot at a doe but passed it up because he didn’t have a clear enough shot, Darrell said.
From the Duluth News Tribune
published Sept. 21, 2008
They ask so little. They give us so much, these dogs who let us take them hunting.
For a lot of hunters, it wouldn’t be a hunt without their devoted canine companions.
With the fall hunt upon us, we asked a few hunters to share their favorite dog stories. We think you’ll enjoy them.
Mark Fouts, Superior
Director of Regional Operations, Ruffed Grouse Society
“I remember my first pointing dog,” Fouts said. “An English setter. I got her from [Duluth dog trainer] Joe DeLoia. She was about 3. We were hunting pheasants — you know, ditch parrots — down in Nebraska.”
From the Duluth News Tribune
published Sept. 21, 2008
Wisconsin’s waterfowl season opens Saturday and the state’s hunters will have the maximum 60-day season allowed by federal regulations.
“Wisconsin waterfowlers should have a good hunting season,” said Kent Van Horn, migratory game bird ecologist for the state Department of Natural Resources, in a prepared statement. “Overall, populations of waterfowl game species are healthy and abundant.”
The duck hunt in the northern zone opens at 9 a.m. Saturday and continues through Nov. 25.
The two main changes this year are a closed season for canvasback ducks and dual framework for scaup, also called bluebill, with a daily bag limit of one scaup for 40 days and two scaup for 20 days, according to a Wisconsin DNR news release. In the northern zone, the daily bag limit is two scaup from Oct. 18 through Nov. 6.
From the Duluth News Tribune
published Sept. 16, 2008
Minnesota Department of Natural Resources conservation officer reports for Tuesday, Sept. 16
District 5 – Eveleth area
CO Darrin Kittelson (International Falls) spent time on wetland issues within the station. Checked grouse hunters and archery deer hunters, very little activity with the rainy weather. Bear hunting activity starting to slow a bit. Handled an injured eagle complaint, the eagle was captured and later sent on a plane to Raptor Center at the University of Minnesota.
From the Duluth News Tribune
published Sept. 14, 2008
A number of rules have changed this fall in both Minnesota and Wisconsin. Here are the highlights.
1. A new deer-hunting season in Minnesota. As announced earlier this fall, the state will hold an antlerless deer season the weekend of Oct. 11-12 in four deer management units around and north of Duluth. The units are 178, 180, 181 and 182. This is a firearms season aimed at bringing down deer populations deemed too high. Your regular firearms deer license will work for this season, but you’ll need to buy special antlerless-only permits specifically for this hunt. They’re $7.50 each, available at license outlets, and they’re good for this hunt only.
From the Duluth News Tribune
published Sept. 7th, 2008
Minnesota Department of Natural Resources officials remind off-highway vehicle users of the following regulations:
Hunters placing baits for bears should know that several state forests have a new “limited” classification that restricts travel by OHVs to roads or trails that contain an OHV sign. If there is no sign, the route is closed to motorized vehicles. The Nemadji State Forest in Northeastern Minnesota falls under that classification.
In state forests, OHV travel is not allowed on designated nonmotorized trails or in areas posted and designated as closed to OHV use.
In state forests, OHV use that causes erosion or rutting, or that damages trees, growing crops, roads or natural resources is prohibited.
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