Full show this week kicks off with discussion about ice conditions on destinations like Upper Red Lake and the latest updates on deer hunting harvest in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Host and Managing Editor Rob Drieslein and Editor Tim Spielman also discuss the retirement announcement across the St. Croix from Wisconsin DNR Secretary Preston Cole. Also the announcement that the state’s Fish and Wildlife Legislative Alliance, an outdoors umbrella group, is shutting down. Then fisheries biologist Paul Radomski joins the program to talk about his new book, “Walleye: A Beautiful Fish of the Dark.” Other guests include Danny Thomson from Garmin, who updates listeners on the latest updates to the popular Panoptix electronics system, and Mike Fogelson from Up North Sports, who shares details of his company’s big Grand Gear Giveaway at the St. Paul Ice Fishing and Winter Sports Show next weekend. Tim Lesmeister wraps up the show with discussion on what’s affecting hunting license sales and the return of the black bear hunt in New Jersey.

Podcast host Dan Ladd welcomes Vermont’s Gary Moore from the New England Outdoor Writers Association. Dan and Gary talk about the relevance between outdoor communicators and the sporting public and how trends that affect the sporting community are reflective in outdoor writer groups, including recruiting new members and holding events.

Kicking off this week’s broadcast, host and Managing Editor Rob Drieslein and Editor Tim Spielman recap the midterm elections and what they mean for natural resources laws and policy-making in Minnesota for the next couple of years. Then, David Schuessler from Ducks Unlimited joins the program to chat about how waterfowl hunting seasons in 2022 have unfolded and shares insight into the organization’s upcoming “Into the Vault” online auction promotion. Tim Lesmeister helps Rob wrap up the show with chatter on the deer hunting season in Minnesota, wolf trail-cam images, plus gun-control discussion and the upcoming consumer ice-fishing shows in Blaine and St. Paul.

This week’s Outdoor News Radio begins with staffers Rob Drieslein and Tim Spielman recapping the slow start to the 2022 firearms deer hunting season last weekend. Perhaps more normal weather this weekend will improve the participation and kill. Then new Minnesota Deer Hunters Association Executive Director Jared Mazurek joins Rob to talk about his background and his vision for the...

Podcast host Dan Ladd flys solo in this episode covering boots-on-the-ground deer hunting tactics. Dan delves into making deer drives and discusses strategies for groups large and small, including how much noise to make (or not), playing the wind, and how even just a few hunters can have success. Later, the focus shifts to stalking, still-hunting and tracking whitetails....

It’s firearms deer hunting opener weekend in Minnesota. Aaron Hebeisen from Backcountry Hunters and Anglers joins host and Managing Editor Rob Drieslein to kick off this week’s broadcast. They discuss chronic wasting disease testing protocol, along with previews for BHA Minnesota’s winter ice-breaker and national rendezvous events, plus Aaron shares his story from a remarkable Lake Michigan waterfowl hunt. Christopher...

Managing Editor and host Rob Drieslein and Editor Tim Spielman kick off the broadcast talking plans for the Nov. 5 firearms deer hunting opener in Minnesota. A consistent theme for hunters this fall has been heat and drought, and there’s discussion about how some hunters allowed their deer to spoil during the recent, warm antlerless deer-hunting season. Other topics include...

New York Outdoor News Editor Dan Ladd welcomes Mike Joyner from the Turkey Talk Blog (www.turkey-talk.com) for a discussion on hunting fall turkeys. Mike talks about strategies for finding fall birds, focusing on gobblers rather than hens, and talks extensively about hunting in the fall with a turkey dog. Dan and Mike also discuss turkey populations around the Northeast. Categories:...

We’ve got a great 2022 Minnesota pheasant hunting opener recap to kick off this week’s show. After receiving a DNR survey in the mail, Managing Editor Rob Drieslein and Editor Tim Spielman discuss surveys from the agency as well as the status of drought conditions around the state and a recent “State of the Birds” report that Ducks Unlimited believes reveals...

It’s pheasant opener weekend in Minnesota, so Rob Drieslein and Tim Spielman launch the show with a quick outlook for the Governor’s Pheasant Opener festivities in Worthington. They also break down the new draft plan “4 The Outdoors” long-range funding proposal that the DNR unveiled this week. Then Sabin Adams, Pheasants Forever’s Minnesota project manager, jumps into the conversation to...