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Grant aims to get

more people hunting
and fishing
Anglers still cast lines
and hunters head to deer
camp each year, but the
percentage of Minnesotans
who hunt or fish is shrinking.
To help grow the number
of hunters and anglers,
organizations can apply for
grants from the Minnesota
Department of Natural
Resources.
Groups that will help
move people through the
process of becoming
hunters and anglers, or of
continuing to hunt or fish,
are encouraged to apply for
said
Jeff
funding,
Ledermann, DNR angler
recruitment and retention
supervisor. We give priority to programs for underserved audiences, new
immigrant populations and
those with an ongoing
impact rather than onetime events.
Types of activities could
include fishing and hunting
educational programs, clinics, workshops, and camps,
and funding for fishing and
hunting equipment and
transportation.
Groups must apply for this
round of grants by Jan. 19,
2017. The grant program
began this year and this is
the third round of grants. In

this round, awards will

range from $5,000 to
$50,000. The DNR anticipates a total of $100,000
will be available. Thirdround projects must be
completed in Minnesota
and be finished by June 30,
2018.
New in this round, there is
no longer a requirement of
a
funding
match.
Organizations are nonetheless encouraged to include
a match in their project that
can be funding, or donated
labor, materials or services.
Match amounts will be
considered in the selection
process.
The grant program began
this year and the first two
rounds were competitive,
with more than 50 applicants, Ledermann said.
The groups we chose
shared a commitment to
ongoing support for helping people enjoy the outdoors through hunting or
fishing.
To learn more about the
DNRs work in recruitment, retention and reactivation, and to find grant
application requirements,
visit www.mndnr.gov/r3.
Details about the grant and
a list of award winners can
be found at the link under
Help others discover.

DNR Information

DNR seeks designs

for Minnesotas 2018
turkey stamp
Wildlife artists can submit
entries for the 2018
Minnesota Wild Turkey
Stamp from Monday, Dec.
5, through 4 p.m., Friday,
Dec. 16.
The cost of a turkey stamp
is included in a turkey
license, but pictorial
stamps are sold as collectables. In the contest, the
eastern wild turkey must be
the primary focus of the
design.
Artists are prohibited from
using any photographic
product as part of their finished entries. Winning
artists may issue limited
edition prints of the artwork and retain proceeds.
Final judging is open to
the public and will take
place at 2 p.m. Thursday,
Dec. 22, at DNR headquarters, 500 Lafayette Road,
in St. Paul. The public is
welcome to come and view
the winning design 10 a.m.
to noon on Friday, Dec. 23.
Revenue from stamp sales
is dedicated to wild turkey
habitat
management.
Extirpated from Minnesota
around 1900, wild turkeys
now thrive throughout all
but the northern forested
portions of the state.
For more information on
stamp contests, guidelines

for submitting work, and to

sign up to receive regular
email updates on stamp
contests, visit www.mndnr.
gov/stamps. Contest guidelines are also available
from the DNR Information
Center by calling 651-2966157 or 888-646-6367.

Hunters register
68,958 deer during first
weekend of season
Harvest down 3 percent
from a year ago
Minnesota
firearms
hunters registered 68,958
deer during the first two
days of firearms deer season, according to the
Minnesota Department of
Natural Resources.
Preliminary numbers
from opening weekend
show that the number of
deer registered fell 3 percent from 2015. Of the deer
harvested, 67 percent were
bucks, compared to 68 percent of the first weekend
harvest of 2015.
In Zone 1, in northeastern
Minnesota, total firearms
harvest was up 16 percent.
In Zone 2, which covers
the majority of the state
and runs from Canada to
Iowa, harvest was down 7
percent and Zone 3, in
southeastern Minnesota,
was down 28 percent.
Even with record-high
temperatures statewide, the

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in Zone 1 is at least 16 percent higher than last year,
said DNR big game proleader
Adam
gram
Murkowski. Since these
are preliminary numbers,
its too soon to say if the
unusual weather had any
impact on harvest elsewhere in the state, but as
conditions change and
hunting continues, well
get a better sense of how
the season is progressing.
Based upon the number of
antlerless permits available and the number of
permit areas that allow
multiple deer to be taken,
the DNR is projecting the
2016 total deer harvest to
be between 165,000 and
185,000 deer. The 2015
total harvest was a little
more than 159,000.
In much of Minnesota, the
deer season ended, the late
southeastern season, which
runs through Sunday, Nov.
27; and the muzzleloader
season, which begins
Saturday, Nov. 26, and
continues through Sunday,
Dec. 11.
The DNR strives to maintain a healthy wild deer
population that offers
recreational and economic
opportunities,
while
addressing
conflicts
between deer, people and
other natural resources.
Habitat
management,
hunting, research and
monitoring are several primary tools used to manage
the Minnesota deer population. More information
on deer management can
be found at www.mndnr.
gov/deer.
DNR announces art contest for states first pollinator critical habitat
license plate
Minnesota will release a
new critical habitat license
plate early next year with a
design that will feature
pollinators in native habitat, according to the
Department of Natural
Resources. The new
design will be selected
from a public contest
among Minnesota artists
and their original artwork.
Wildlife artists can submit

entries for the critical

habitat pollinator plate
from Monday, Dec. 5
through 4 p.m. Monday,
Dec. 12. Contest Rules,
application and artist
agreement forms will be
available online next week
at www.mndnr.gov/plates.
Pollinators such as butterflies and bees have been
of concern in recent years
due to many of the challenges that affect our
native insects, said
Crystal Boyd, DNR bee
specialist. These challenges include pesticide
use,
habitat
loss,
pathogens, parasites, climate change, invasive
species, and other factors.
A pollinator license plate
is a great way for
Minnesota motorists to
express their concern and
appreciation for our native
insects.
To learn more about pollinators, visit www.dnr.
state. mn.us/ pollinator_
resources/index.html.

Samantha Sartwell, a
2015 graduate from BLHS,
joined the US Navy in Feb.
of 2016.
She is currently stationed
in San Diego, CA and has
earned a promotion to an
E4.
We are so proud of her
and give our love and support always as she provides
service to our country.
Keep her in your prayers
as with other military
members supporting us!

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