Natalie Ryder

1 week ago | outdoornews.com | Natalie Ryder

After an almost three-hour meeting on Friday, April 10, the Senate Environment, Climate, and Legacy committee approved S.F. 2077, its omnibus package, sending it to the Senate Finance Committee. Unlike the House environment committee, the Senate hammered out bills to be included in the omnibus budget package.

2 weeks ago | outdoornews.com | Natalie Ryder

Longtime angler and Minnesota fishing guide Steve Scepaniak remembers the first time he went fishing at age 2 with his dad. As he grew up fishing in his free time, angling technology began to advance while he honed his skills. “I was a little kid sitting on my dad’s knee when the ‘green box’ came up. That was the first sonar ever made, and it was a blast,” Scepaniak recalled of the Lowrance Fish-Lo-K-Tor. This content is restricted to subscribers of OutdoorNews.com.

2 weeks ago | outdoornews.com | Natalie Ryder

A widely anticipated study will begin as soon as next month in an effort to determine if there is increased muskie mortality on Minnesota’s Leech Lake due to savvier angling pressure. As a call to action, in coordination with the Minnesota DNR, Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe, and MN-FISH, researchers at Bemidji State University will lead the charge in tagging and tracking muskies for three years.

2 weeks ago | outdoornews.com | Natalie Ryder

With just more than a month left in this year’s legislative session, House and Senate committees have received their proposed operating budget constraints for the upcoming biennium. Facing the multi-billion-dollar deficit in coming years, both the Senate Environment, Climate, and Legacy Committee and the House Environment and Natural Resource Finance and Policy Committee are working with less general fund dollars. This content is restricted to subscribers of OutdoorNews.com.

2 weeks ago | outdoornews.com | Natalie Ryder

Leading up to the omnibus package deadline of Friday, April 11, the Minnesota House Environment and Natural Resource Finance and Policy Committee had heard many bills to potentially include. During the past two weeks, bills regarding a continuous bass season, a DFL-backed Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund bill and new community grants carve-out, eliminating the shotgun zone, and special permitting for industry water use were heard and laid over.