Outdoors

Plans are moving forward for the 2013 Minnesota Governor's Pheasant Hunting Opener in the south-central city of Madelia.
Applications for Minnesota bear hunting licenses will be available starting Monday. The 3,750 licenses are available in 11 permit areas, down from the 6,000 available last year.
Opponents of Minnesota's wolf hunt planned to gather on the Bemidji State University campus on Saturday to explore ways to stop or alter the hunt.
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is extending the hunting season for elk in northwestern Minnesota.
Wisconsin's inaugural wolf season is set to close Sunday afternoon, as hunters and trappers are on the verge of reaching the statewide quota.
Why I can't support Minnesota's season on wolves
If it's supposed to be part of a sound wolf management plan, it doesn't make sense.
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources recommended last week that a hunting bill be scaled back after lawmakers and state agencies were inundated with nearly 2,000 angry emails and letters opposing its breadth.
A hunting season on wolves was the right and ethical choice
It's not shaping up as the mindless slaughter protesters would have us imagine.
Wisconsin is closing a third wolf harvest zone. The Department of Natural Resources says Zone in far northwestern Wisconsin will close to hunting and trapping of wolves at 5 p.m. Sunday.
Groups sponsor rally against Minn. wolf hunt
Opponents of wolf hunting planned to hold a rally on the Iron Range on Saturday to protest the state's first ongoing managed wolf hunt.