How Come There’s Not An App For That?

Why doesn’t more state game and fish departments put their rule books for hunting and fishing laws into the form of a smart phone app? It makes just too much sense. Frankly, I carry my phone with me almost at all times. I would love to have ready access to the information it contains—if for no other reason than to verify what I already believe the rules to be.

An app could also enable a hunter to put in a key word and quickly find the section that pertains to the issue in question. Honestly, there are a multitude of reasons it just makes sense for a hunting and fishing rules app.

Minnesota DNR Shouldn’t Put Bear Hunters In This Position

If the Minnesota DNR would have made the killing of a research bear a wildlife violation, then the perpetrator of such an act would be distinguished from the 99.8% of the other sportsmen who participate in our sport faithfully playing by the rules.

Court Decides: Crow Wing Co. landowner can keep black bear carcass

If a big black bear dies in the woods on private property, who gets the carcass? via www.startribune.com Today, the Minnesota Appellate Court found that a landowner who had found a dead bear on his property was entitled to the ownership of the carcass (which died of natural causes).   The Minnesota DNR had originally [...]

Rubutting A Blog Post On Trapping

This blog post is in direct response to Bill Klein’s recent posting on Club Outdoors where he describes an incident involving his dog getting caught in a trap. You can read his comments HERE in their…

Appreciating Their Courage Behind The Badge

Minnesota has a fine corps of Conservation Officers who perform a superb job of protecting our fields, forests and waters from abuse and misuse. During this period of Thanksgiving, here’s a tip-of-the-hat to these unsung heroes who deserve more appreciation from those of us who enjoy a quality outdoor experience.

Trophy buck illegally shot in Goodhue County

State conservation officers recently seized a record-book deer rack and filed poaching charges against a Cannon Falls man.
The Minnesota Departmen…

Discovering The Unusual In The Out-of-doors

Each fall hunters out walking in the fields and woods make some unusual discoveries. It’s certainly possible that what you might find could be an important clue towards solving a crime.

Are Hunters Being Driven Away From Our Sport By Too Many Regulations?

Recently a well-known outdoors writer from Minnesota lamented how the deer hunting regulations were getting so cumbersome that it took several hours of reading through them the night before deer seaso…

Out of Tragedy Inexcusable Mistakes Were Allegedly Made

Just a quick follow-up to my last post about the turkey hunter who mistakingly shot and killed his 8–year old son. While I am not trying to dismiss in any way the tragic circumstances of this situatio…

Landowners Take A Hit Thanks To Careless Hunters

Unfortunately, we read about it happening most every fall.   You know what I mean…the news story that hits the wire describing a hunter’s errant bullet harming or perhaps killing some innocent person quite some distance away from the woods.   Those type of incidents are truly horrendous, and certainly not something any of us like to [...]

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