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For northern forest whitetails, the going this winter has gotten tougher

Posted by Tom Rusch on Tuesday, March 12, 2013, In : Wildlife Management 

The winter of 2012-13 has abruptly changed since the last Winter Severity Index report in early February. Over 30 inches of snow has fallen in the last month in Northern St Louis County, with three storms in the 6-inch-plus category.

For northern forest whitetails, the going has gotten tougher.  All snow measurement stations are currently over the 15 inch threshold.

(Editors note: The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources measures the Winter Severity Index (WSI) by applying a point for...


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A wildlife manager's perspective of Minnesota's first gray wolf hunting season

Posted by Tom Rusch on Thursday, December 20, 2012, In : Gray Wolf 
With the inaugural 2012 Minnesota wolf season now closed in the Northeast, I thought I would give you my impression of how it went, from the wildlife manager’s perspective. 

Although the season has been surrounded with emotion, controversy and rhetoric on all sides, it has been much more routine in “the trenches.”  The Tower Area wildlife staff has registered and done necropsies on about 25 wolves over the past month, pretty much without fanfare. 
 

We have registered thousands ...
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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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