Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Jan. 2, 2026 edition of Minnesota Outdoor News.

Press release Greg Gianforte today announced the winners of the 2025 Youth Hunting Story Contest, which included Havre’s Kael Milam, 12, for the story of his first year of hunting antelope. Kael’s ...

Fly fishing The mile long stretch of flowing water at Rocky Ford is fed by an underground spring, and now that most of the ...

Princess Diana said thi New Year's Eve tradition was "agony." Diana would spend Christmas and New Years with the royal family ...

Each new year helps many state agencies earn revenue to conserve nature by selling wildlife calendars that also showcase ...

Say goodbye to that messy drop zone with these pretty and practical mudroom ideas. Create a place to corral your shoes, ...

We bid farewell to the departed, including a World Series closer, superstar center fielder, renaissance manager and crafty ...

The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. This new ...

From a wild population well into the billions in the mid-1800s, passenger pigeons were gone as a species when the last bird died in a Cincinatti zoo on Sept. 1, 1914.

Reporter Each year I seem to find a few more body parts that hurt or at least, hurt in a different fashion. It seems to take a little longer for all the assembled parts to wake up in the morning. I am ...

Winter is a fun time to get out in the crisp air and hunt small game,” said Benji Kohn, volunteer mentor program coordinator with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources.

Alone ended up being a relative term, as each day Vivian Moreau hitchhiked and met helpful people, listened to their stories ...