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They are coming in a big way with new renewable fuel mandates. The adjoing farmers recently submitted requests to our township to build 30 acres of them on fair ag land. They can construct them 50 feet away from my small timber. The ordinance was changed without anyone in the neighborhood...

Phil I have noticed the exact same issue in southern MN. Planted Mine 7/9 and have the biggest bulbs I have ever had. I was guessing I may have planted too early with the good growing conditions we had here this year. Rye, oats, and peas on the other half of the plot planted 8/26 look...

If you can hold out until late summer you can sometimes find some great deals and be able to haggle. I was provided an offer an offer on one this spring and was able to buy it in September for almost a third less.

Is there a distance away from the bait pile a hunter has to be before it is legal to hunt in MN? 1/4 or 1/2 mile? The rules aren't clear. In a square mile section does a feeder by someone's home in the section make all hunting in that section illegal? If so a person could be hunting 3/4 a...

Nice buck.

Hunters from Iowa, Kansas, and Missouri must have read the article in North American Whitetail ranking MN #1 and decided to come to MN this year.

This is the area manager response. XXXXXXXXXX, Thank you for your interest in deer and deer hunting. You are correct, the refuge has been hunted for many years. The Carleton State Game Refuge was opened for hunting management in response to deer grazing pressure and browsing on existing and...

This is in DPA 339. Very low population to start. The area in question is a historic wintering area. Here is the response they received from area manager Jeanine Vorland:On Wednesday, August 26, 2015, Vorland, Jeanine (DNR) <(507) 379-3401Mobile: (507) 475-290 From...

Just spoke with an acquaintance today briefly who had asked Leslie about it. Sounds like a special hunt with five additional anterless tags per hunter (200 total) was approved by an area manager on the basis of a ten year old deer count and the influential owner complaining of browse...

One landowner with a lot of pull.

How large of an area do you feel a property needs to be to warrant harvesting additional deer without having affects outside of the area that is considered overpopulated?

Watch the hot spot issue. To be a considered a hot spot the area must be large. At least a couple thousand acres. In southern mn I have witnessed populations be decimated due to a anterless park hunts. Three or four mile migrations are not uncommon here. If they all get shot in the hot spot...

The way I look at it if you have more hunters the harvest should increase relative to increased hunters if the population is not being over harvested. If you add 25 percent more hunters and the harvest is consistent or going down the herd is being over harvested.

Congrats! That won't make winter seem longer.

I received this response. I hadn't seen Peggy Bennet's name mentioned. Thank you for your email, Jason. The drastic decrease in deer population you have noted is concerning. An audit of the DNR deer model sounds very appropriate. Thank you, again, for contacting me. Sincerely, Peggy Rep. Peggy...

Email sent to Pat Garofalo and Dave Thompson others BCC,d.

Looks like the teams are stacked with folks from The Nature Conservancy. In reviewing their website they don't appear to be too fond of deer. I never heard of them until now.