Outdoors

The Department of Natural Resources predicts this season's deer hunt will be more successful for hunters heading into the woods and fields beginning Saturday.
2000: Winds of Hell
1940 Armistice Day blizzard traps hunters and others around the state.
Moose population is down, so why are we hunting them?
Minnesota's annual moose hunt is underway -- even though the animal is all but gone from northwest Minnesota, and the herd is in decline in the northeast. Even some moose hunters wonder why the state allows the animals to be hunted at all.
As Minnesota duck hunters prepare for Saturday's season opener, safety experts are reminding them to pack something that could save their lives.
Band members continue plans to assert tribal rights with protest
Organizers with the White Earth and Leech Lake Bands of Ojibwe, including Boone Wadena, above, plan to go fishing before the state walleye opener as a way to assert hunting and fishing rights they say tribal chiefs never relinquished in an 1855 treaty.
Youths get first crack at turkey hunting
It isn't that Amber Reinking doesn't have any experience with turkeys. She raised three of them last summer at her Rice Lake Township home.