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  • 1 week ago | outdoornews.com | Eric Morken

    It was hard to believe we weren’t hearing anything on the final morning of Minnesota’s first turkey-hunting season this year. Where were the gobbles? This was in stark contrast to the two mornings I drove to the property to listen for roosted birds leading up to the hunt. Toms were abundant – and vocal – those days. This content is restricted to subscribers of OutdoorNews.com. If you are already an OutdoorNews.com subscriber, you can log in here.

  • 3 weeks ago | outdoornews.com | Eric Morken

    Every year that a wild white-tailed deer lives in Minnesota likely means it survived a few close calls. There’s the threat of a tough winter, as well as encounters with predators, vehicles, and hunters. There might be changes in habitat, along with other curveballs that nature might throw at wildlife. For a whitetail to live well beyond a decade, what obstacles must it have overcome?

  • 3 weeks ago | outdoornews.com | Eric Morken

    Harrisburg — The Pennsylvania Game Commission, at its recent meeting, announced that 1,312,000 antlerless deer licenses will be allocated statewide for 2025-26, which is up from the 1,186,000 licenses allocated for 2024-25 – an increase of about 10%. Here are next season’s doe license allocations by wildlife management unit.

  • 1 month ago | outdoornews.com | Eric Morken

    Anyone who hunts whitetails in hill country, even in smaller, more rolling hills, knows it is challenging to get away with hunting in the bottoms within this kind of terrain. So many factors come into play. There’s rising and dropping thermals that are important to understand.

  • 2 months ago | outdoornews.com | Eric Morken

    Anyone who reads the field reports from Minnesota DNR conservation officers each week knows that officers respond to a wide range of situations. Reports run the gamut – from humorous at times to serious poaching incidents for those tasked with protecting the state’s fish and wildlife resources. There aren’t many calls that necessarily surprise a CO, but it’s safe to say that Derek Peterlin did not expect his day to end as it did Feb.

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Eric Morken
Eric Morken @EricOutdoorNews
8 Apr 25

First it was Naz rocking a camo shirt tonight, now it’s Donte with the camo pants. Everyone is pumped for the spring turkey season!

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just a couple of guys with nice fits 🤷‍♂️ https://t.co/XxBgbKWq64

Eric Morken
Eric Morken @EricOutdoorNews
22 Mar 25

Congratulations to the Alexandria boys basketball team on your state title! l felt like this day would eventually come while covering the program and watching it progress over the years. Great program and a really fun brand of basketball to watch.

Eric Morken
Eric Morken @EricOutdoorNews
14 Mar 25

It was fun chatting with Minnesota conservation officer Derek Peterlin about an incident he recently responded to in Hibbing where he helped remove a live deer from a basement that had broken through a window. https://t.co/E9M7bf6OIc