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The DNR Tells You to Protect Fawns. Its Own Policies Are Killing Them by the Thousands
Every spring the Minnesota DNR runs its annual public service campaign: if
you find a fawn alone in the woods, leave it there. It is not abandoned.
Its mother will return. The agency spends real resources reminding
Minnesotans that well-meaning interference kills more fawns than it saves.
Randall Tlachac
Jun 262 min read


Where's the Money Going?
Minnesota Hunters Deserve Answers on Wolf Fund Spending A Guest Column on Transparency and Accountability Every time a Minnesota deer hunter buys their license, fifty cents goes into a special account. It's not much per person—but across 500,000 hunters annually, that adds up to roughly $250,000 a year. That money sits in what the Minnesota DNR calls the "Wolf Allocation Fund", supposedly earmarked for wolf management, research, and monitoring. Here's the problem: most of us
Randall Tlachac
May 154 min read


Minutes from H4H meeting with DNR and USDA
Meeting Minutes – Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, USDA APHIS and Hunters for Hunters, (H4H), a Minnesota-based hunter advocacy group.

Dillan Porter
Apr 12, 202510 min read


Summary of the MN DNR Wolf Managment Plan 2023 - 2032
Photo Courtesy of Our Wolf Watch FB Group, credit Nolan Skuse Here are some of the highlights of this 67-page, 9-year plan, “word for word”. My personal comments are bolded. The plan can be viewed at https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/wolves/wolf-plan.html “Today, wolves are distributed across half of the state in numbers of 2,700, well above the endangered species act recovery plan goals of 1.250-1400.” Twice the Recovery Goal! “Some readers might be surprised to find that this pl

Dillan Porter
Mar 6, 20255 min read
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