Inside the Outdoors with Mike Rahn Written By: Mike Rahn | ×
The big seasonal shift in activities of the outdoors is nearly complete. The hunting seasons have ended, save for several remaining weeks for rabbit, hare and squirrel hunters. We’re now focused on ice fishing, and snow-centered activities on skis, snowshoes or astride a snowmobile. As put so well in Ecclesiastes, “For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose…”
But while the seasons have shifted in a big way, there may be value in looking back and reflecting on an activity so recently ended. One such pause for reflection is being orchestrated by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. The DNR is in the process of mailing a survey to several thousand waterfowl hunters across the state their season having ended December 6 asking them to weigh in on some possible new management strategies. These strategies, if adopted, would change the rules for waterfowl hunting in our