As 2025 kicks off, host Rob Drieslein and Editor Tim Spielman share what’s nearly the final deer kill numbers from 2024 in Minnesota (hint, up from 2023.) Then Glen Schmitt, the Outdoor News Fishing Report guru, offers an upbeat assessment on the state of ice fishing across the region this winter. Chris Knopf, executive director of Friends of the Boundary Waters, discusses how former President Jimmy Carter played an important role in protecting the BWCA. Tim Lesmeister and Drieslein close with a host of topics, including new CWD research and talk of changing the name of Denali in Alaska… again.

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