MINNEAPOLIS — The problem with pulling a trigger is that you can’t unpull it — a lesson some hunters learn the hard way.

Excited to raise your shotgun in the direction of what you think is a snow goose, only to find out the bird you killed is a protected trumpeter swan?

Too late, once you’ve pulled the trigger.

Think that late-...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — On a recent Sunday morning, Carrie Schmitz and her family were cruising to church in Golden Valley when they spotted an enormous buck lying dead in the highway median. Her three children went wild at the sight of its massive antlers, shouting dubiously that it must have been a “30-pointer.”

About an hour and a half later, at...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — A deer hunter admitted he messed up and bagged a moose, whose population is a far cry from what it was in Minnesota two decades ago, according to a criminal complaint filed last Wednesday.

Dane Landon Nelson, 37, of Duluth, was charged in St. Louis County District Court with illegally taking the moose, a gross misdemeanor, while...Read more

HARTFORD, Conn. — The brook trout, the only species of trout native to Connecticut, will soon be getting a minimum size limit to harvest for the first time in over 70 years.

Officials with the state’s Department of Energy and Environmental Protection are placing more protections on the fish after monitoring revealed a declining population. ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Last month, Erv Berglund leveled his scoped handgun in the direction of a whitetail buck on northern Minnesota land his dad bought in 1933.

Only scantily populated with deer, the property is about 60 miles south of the Canadian border. Aspen, spruce, birch, fir and black ash cover its higher ground, and swamp frames the rest.

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PITTSBURGH — At the end of one of Angler Fishing Club's expeditions on Lake Carnegie — jaunts during which the Pittsburgh volunteer organization provides fishing equipment and lessons free of charge — a young girl realized her passion for the sport.

"I want to go fishing all the time now," she said.

"Then tell your mom or dad that you ...Read more