DNR is developing a fisheries management plan for Mille Lacs and wants to hear from you
Discussion will recognize 'co-management' as a factor PERM encourages all Minnesota anglers to attend and have their voices heard. *** Thursday, July 11: Northland Arboretum,14250 Conservation Drive, Brainerd *** Tuesday, July 16: Mille Lacs Kathio State Park classroom, 15066 Kathio State Park Road, Onamia *** Thursday, July 18: Indian Mounds Regional Park Pavilion, 10 Mounds Boulevard, St. Paul All of the meetings run [...]
Share your vision for Mille Lacs Lake!
Attend a Mille Lacs Lake community conversation MN DNR's Minnesota Fishing Newsletter June 24, 2019 DNR is developing a fisheries management plan and wants to hear from you. You can hear a presentation from DNR Mille Lacs fisheries supervisor Tom Heinrich, participate in discussion groups, and all ages are welcome. Join us 6-8 p.m. in person: Thursday, July 11, at [...]
DNR looking at gillnets in Bolder Lake?
This letter shows that legal and illegal gill netting is going on all over the state. The DNR doesn’t pay much attention unless there is a lot of ruckus raised. Typically most everything goes under the heading “allowed in the treaties” whether or not that area is treaty-specific. Doug President, PERM Letters to the Editor Outdoor News, Vol. 52, No. [...]
Why Does it Matter if the Mille Lacs Reservation Still Exists?
Update on the Tribal Related Litigation By Randy V. Thompson, Esq. Mille Lacs County Quarterly - April 2019 Even occasional readers of this newsletter have likely noticed that a federal lawsuit – brought in November 2017 by the Mille Lacs Band against the County, the Sheriff and the County Attorney - is a frequent topic in these pages. The Band [...]
Mille Lacs ‘C’-words, and the opaque
Joe Fellegy has some choice comments about another ‘C’ word. He quotes Steve Johnson (Johnson’s Portside on Mille Lacs) “Stop using the C-word!”, the Mille Lacs walleye population is in no crisis!” Fellegy highlights the misleading vocabulary being used to set a up straw man excuse for a “downward swing of the Mille Lacs walleye population.” That explanation is a [...]
Transparency?
After one year, abandoned gill net investigation closed Tribal/GLIFWC game warden loading a gill net full of wasted Mille Lacs walleye The following story is being reprinted with permission of the Mille Lacs Messenger. By Vivian LaMoore, Mille Lacs Messenger, Wednesday, April 3, 2019 It has been nearly a year since an abandoned tribal gill net was found in Mille [...]