Minnesota saw a 9% increase in the number of harvested deer during the 2025 hunting seasons, according to numbers from the ...

Hunters harvested 186,203 deer during the 2025 hunting season, which is a statewide 9% increase from the 2024 hunting season, according to preliminary figures from the Minnesota Department of Natural ...

Preliminary figures are out, and the harvest in Northeastern Minnesota was up 29 percent over last year, said Jeff Lightfoot, Department of Natural Resources regional wildlife manager at Grand Rapids.

Nov. 8—ST. PAUL — With hundreds of thousands of hunters taking to Minnesota's fields and forests for the 2025 firearms deer season, the Department of Natural Resources reminds hunters that safe hunts ...

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