Minnesota Deer Facts

Deer  facts, straight from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources: Deer: The animal Adult female white-tailed deer weigh about 145 lbs., and males weigh about 170 lbs. The biggest white-tailed deer recorded in Minnesota was a 500-pound buck. A whitetail’s home range is about 1 square mile. Deer hunting There are nearly 500,000 firearms deer […]

More Deer Licenses Available This Year

The Minnesota DNR just announced that more deer licenses will be available this year.  More specifics from the Department of Natural Resources July 30th press release: Licenses available Aug. 1; deadline to apply for antlerless permits is Sept. 6 Additional deer hunting opportunities will be available this fall because numbers continue to rebound across the […]

Outdoor Fun – No Experience Necessary

  Learn how to camp and fish with your family at I Can Camp! and I Can Fish! The Minnesota DNR has announced the dates for this years I Can programs at Itasca State Park.   Itasca State Park will be hosting I Can Camp and I Can Fish this summer.  Both programs help you […]

Minnesota DNR – Elk Survey Shows Slight Population Increase

From a March 26, 2018 News Release. “Minnesota’s elk range in northwestern Minnesota has three herds with a total of 97 elk, according to the annual aerial elk population survey completed by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources in Kittson, Marshall and Roseau counties. Past surveys recorded 79 elk in 2017 and 83 elk in […]

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