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It has been an excellent fall for hunters so far; numbers are up everywhere and signs point to an excellent firearms deer season

Posted by Tom Rusch on Thursday, October 18, 2012, In : Wildlife Management 

An excellent Fall continues to go by way too fast! Bear and moose seasons are now finished.  Bear harvest was up over 2011 in the Tower area. Moose harvest  was down a bit, but so were permit numbers.  Those lucky moose hunting parties who were selected in the lottery enjoyed a high quality hunt and shot some really nice bulls.

The duck hunting continues to be good.  Most hunters are saying it’s the best around here in many years.  The weather has been ideal, thus far, for moving  ducks ...


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Welcome to the Wildlife Manager's Corner

Posted by Tom Rusch on Monday, September 10, 2012, In : Wildlife Management 

In this first edition, I would like to just familiarize you with our neck of the woods and give you an idea of what a Department of Natural Resources wildlife manager does in northeast Minnesota. 

As summer transitions to fall and the hunting seasons, we are working on a wide variety of wildlife management tasks and field activities up here on the Canadian border, such as:
  • Mowing 85 miles of hunter walking trails for ruffed grouse hunting.
  • Preparing a newly acquired 750 acre Wildlife Manageme...

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The Wildlife Manager's Corner


Tom Rusch Tom Rusch is the Tower Area Wildlife Manager for the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources' Division of Fish and Wildlife headquartered at Tower, MN in northern St Louis County. His dedicated 4 person staff covers 3.1 million acres of State, County, National and private forest land in northern St. Louis and northern Lake Counties. He hunts, fishes, camps, traps, bikes, hikes, snowshoes and shed hunts year round in the swamps, forests, wetlands and lakes of the northwoods of Minnesota, Wisconsin and Ontario. He is a 24-year veteran of the Minnesota DNR and has worked in the wildlife management field for 30 years in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Missouri. He has lived on the Iron Range with his wife, Deb, since 1991. Tom can be reached by phone at 218-753-2580 ext. 240 or by email at tom.rusch@state.mn.us.
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