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Top topics on Outdoor News Radio this week include a Minnesota deer opener recap with Managing Editor Rob Drieslein and Editor Tim Spielman, plus the Trump administration’s decision to not update a federal wolf plan. Then Dawn Reding from Luther College in Iowa joins the show to talk about bobcat research she has underway in the Driftless area of four states. Aaron Murphy with America Hunters and Anglers shares his group’s concerns with U.S. Sen. Mike Lee’s Border Lands Conservation Act. Tim Lesmeister and Drieslein wrap up the show with chatter on the 50th anniversary of the loss of the Edmund Fitzgerald, plus Colorado wolves, and whitefish as a sportfish.

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Top topics on Outdoor News Radio this week include a preview of the 2025 firearms deer hunting opener this Saturday, Nov. 8. Then Jared Mazurek, executive director of the Minnesota Deer Hunters Association, visits to talk about the group’s Hides For Habitat program and other conservation efforts. Brent Flatten with Minnesota DNR Fisheries then joins host Rob Drieslein to talk about whitefish and tullibee management in northern lakes and the ongoing fall sport-netting season for the species. Tim Lesmeister and Drieslein bring the show home with conversation on wolves around Voyageurs National Park, distinguishing deer versus elk, and the final report on the murder-suicide story on Lake Superior’s Isle Royale this past summer.

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Top topics on Outdoor News Radio this week include a preview of the 2025 firearms deer hunting opener this Saturday, Nov. 8. Then Jared Mazurek, executive director of the Minnesota Deer Hunters Association, visits to talk about the group’s Hides For Habitat program and other conservation efforts. Brent Flatten with Minnesota DNR Fisheries then joins host Rob Drieslein to talk about whitefish and tullibee management in northern lakes and the ongoing fall sport-netting season for the species. Tim Lesmeister and Drieslein bring the show home with conversation on wolves around Voyageurs National Park, distinguishing deer versus elk, and the final report on the murder-suicide story on Lake Superior’s Isle Royale this past summer.

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Top topics on Outdoor News Radio this week include Editor Tim Spielman sharing his story with Managing Editor Rob Drieslein about his successful archery deer hunt last week. They also discuss a new winter walleye regulation on Upper Red Lake and an impending rule for Mille Lacs. Then Grace Milanowski from University of Minnesota Extension talks about the ongoing Offal (gutpile) Wildlife Watching Research study and how deer hunters can help out. Tony Peterson joins the program to talk about deer decoying and other bowhunting tactics before the Minnesota Nov. 8 firearms deer opener. Tim Lesmeister helps wrap up the show with chatter on the government shutdown, including furloughed employees at Pheasants Forever, pre-season deer license sales, lead-bullet alternatives, and a new CEO at Backcountry Hunters and Anglers.

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Top topics on Outdoor News Radio this week include Editor Tim Spielman sharing his story with Managing Editor Rob Drieslein of four poached trumpeter swans in western Minnesota. Then Tom Carpenter from Pheasants Forever joins the program to provide an upland bird hunting update, notably on sharp-tailed grouse, prairie chickens, and ring-necked pheasants across the region. Big-game guru Tony Peterson then drops in with tips for that last couple of weeks of archery deer hunting before Minnesota’s Nov. 8 general firearms opener. Tim Lesmeister and Drieslein wrap up the show with chatter on U.S. Supreme Court upholding lower court rulings on the corner-crossing case out West and whether Minnesota state hunters should join three Chippewa bands in hunting moose.

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Top topics on Outdoor News Radio this week include a review of the Minnesota pheasant opener with Tim Spielman and Rob Drieslein, then the two discuss the Office of Legislative Auditor’s special report on the Minnesota DNR’s harvest of timber on state wildlife management areas. Andrew Farnsworth then joins the program from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology to share insights into the remarkable (and free) Birdcast.org migration website. Tim Lesmeister breaks down the 2026 inductees into the Hayward, Wis.-based Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame, then he and Drieslein talk about the report the DNR issued last week examining the effects that crossbows may, or may not, be having on deer and turkey populations in Minnesota.

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Top topics on Outdoor News Radio this week include a preview of Minnesota’s Oct. 11-12 opening weekend of pheasant hunting with Rob Drieslein and Tim Spielman. Then Wildlife Health Supervisor Erik Hildebrand of the Minnesota DNR jumps into the show to share details of chronic wasting disease management for deer hunters this fall. The show gets a migration update from Dr. Michael Brasher from Ducks Unlimited. Tim Lesmeister helps Drieslein wrap up the show with a discussion about why the Trump administration excluded Pheasants Forever from a recent meeting at the White House, then they spend time talking about the phasing out of the state’s shotgun deer zone in 2026.

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Top topics on Outdoor News Radio this week include discussion with Rob Drieslein and Tim Spielman about the 2025 Minnesota general waterfowl opener. Then 2026 federal duck stamp contest winner Jim Hautman joins Drieslein for a wide-ranging interview. Sabin Adams from Pheasants Forever then offers a 2025 pheasant opener preview, plus he shares plans for a new state wildlife management area along the Rainy River. Tim Lesmeister and Drieslein kick around a bunch of topics, including a moose in Itasca County, roadless rule public feedback, and alligator hunting in Arkansas.

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Top topics on Outdoor News Radio this week include discussion with Rob Drieslein and Tim Spielman about Jim Hautman winning the federal duck stamp contest for the seventh time. They also discuss new efforts to slow the spread of emerald ash borer. Then Brad Fitzgerald joins the show to recap Minnesota’s bear hunting season and preview the Oct. 4 fall wild turkey opener. Former Minnesota DNR Commissioner Tom Landwehr was a judge at the recent federal duck stamp contest, and he recaps the experience with Drieslein. Then Tim Lesmeister jumps in live from the Association of Great Lakes Outdoors Writers conference in Eau Claire, Wis. Among the topics are possible expansion of sandhill crane hunting across the region.

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Top topics on Outdoor News Radio this week include discussion with Rob Drieslein and Tim Spielman about multiple hunting seasons kicking off, plus news on year-round bass fishing in Minnesota. Then Jon Gassett from the Wildlife Management Institute and Boone and Crockett Club joins the program to discuss the recently released Poach and Pay report, which suggests that 95% of game and wildlife crimes go unreported. Tim Lesmeister helps Rob wrap up the show with discussion on sandhill crane and woodcock hunting, plus they remember the films and conservation work of the great Robert Redford.

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