More than 180,000 deer were taken by Minnesota hunters during the 2025 hunting season, a 9% increase over last season and 5% higher than the five-year average, according to the state Department of ...

Very few Minnesota deer hunters are wolf poachers. But a significant number of wolves are illegally killed during the deer-hunting season. The University of Minnesota’s Voyageurs Wolf Project on ...

Minnesota saw a 9% increase in the number of harvested deer during the 2025 hunting seasons, according to numbers from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. In total, the number was 186,203 ...

Favorable weather and a large deer population helped Minnesota hunters bag 9% more whitetails last season than they did in 2024, according to the Department of Natural Resources. The agency’s state ...

It was a wintry weekend when Erik Hildebrand scouted for deer in one of Minnesota’s hunting zones. He was there for a late-season deer hunt, scheduled for Dec. 19-21, which was to help control the ...