Deer Hunting

Grace Malinowski, program coordinator, discusses the Offal Wildlife Watching Project. The Community Science series is produced by Mark Jacobs.

Bow hunters harvested more than 30,000 deer during the 2025 archery season — an all-time high. The 2026 season runs from Sept. 19 through Dec. 31.

The DNR will demonstrate how to remove lymph nodes from deer and prepare them for testing for the parasitic chronic wasting disease.

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources says preliminary reports suggest 2024 was also the second-most successful archery hunt ever in the state.

Plus, Northeastern MN farmers are encouraged to apply for climate resiliency project funding, and the Superior National Forest is seeking members for its Natural Resource Advisory Board.

Aaron Brown is a writer, columnist and teacher who spends each deer hunting season in Minnesota with generations of his family.

The ban, effective in eight Northern Minnesota counties and 24 counties total, is intended to reduce the spread of chronic wasting disease.

The Department of Natural Resources will place trail cameras on public and private lands to gather deer density data throughout northeastern Minnesota.

A team of experts is planning for a potential outbreak, focusing on public health surveillance, lab capacity, prion disease diagnostics, surveillance of livestock and wildlife, risk communication, and education and outreach.

The DNR added a new rule to the city hunt requirements in 2023. All deer over a year old must be sampled for the always-fatal disease.