Every week, Outdoor News Radio explores timely outdoors topics emerging from Minnesota, the Upper Midwest, and around the country. For one hour, host Rob Drieslein, managing editor and president of Outdoor News, Inc., interviews a slate of natural resource experts, conservation advocates, and top outdoors writers. Along with regular co-host Tim Lesmeister, expect raucous and sometimes irreverent banter about hunting and fishing, shooting sports, wild game cooking, and nature. Among the program’s many guests, get news updates from editors Tim Spielman, Dean Bortz, and Brian Peterson. Hear fishing tips from Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame legendary angler Terry Tuma, hunting tactics from Tony Peterson, and nongame notes and stories from “Birdchick” Sharon Stiteler and Backyard and Beyond columnist Stan Tekiela.
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Episode 606 – Roadless rule, USFWS backs off drainage rules, Walz and BWCA, Citizens Council
Aug 21, 202654 min
https://www.outdoornews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Aug-22-long-show.mp3 National issues dominate random chatter this week, including the Trump administration announcing that it intends to move forward with ending the popular 2001 U.S. Forest Service Roadless Rule. Also, much to U.S. Sen. Kevin Kramer’s chagrin, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has announced no further action examining drain tile easement setbacks. Here in Minnesota, Gov. Tim Walz delivered an executive order halting copper/nickel sulfide ore mining in the Boundary Waters watershed. Hosts Rob Drieslein and Tim Lesmeister break all that down, plus the latest upbeat state waterfowl spring breeding counts . Other guests include Backyard and Beyond nature columnist Stan Tekiela, and Brian Myres from the Minnesotans United for Conservation, who makes the case for a Citizens Conservation Advisory Council . The post Episode 606 – Roadless rule, USFWS backs off drainage rules, Walz and BWCA, Citizens Council appeared first on Outdoor News .
Episode 605 – Recapping Klobuchar interview, Alaska and Ambler Road, Outdoor Leaders, Leech Lake
Aug 14, 202654 min
https://www.outdoornews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Aug-15-long-show.mp3 Alaska tops the discussion this week following Rob Drieslein’s fishing trip there last week. He talks with Tim Lesmeister about fishing shallow August lake trout and Arctic grayling, then Stan Tekiela joins the show. He and Drieslein discuss the incredible, wild ecosystem in the north-central region of Alaska near Gates of the Arctic National Park where the Ambler Road threatens fisheries and wildlife. Lesmeister and Drieslein also break down Amy Klobuchar’s interview about outdoor topics last weekend at Game Fair and preview Lisa Demuth’s interview this coming weekend. The program also unveils the 2026 Outdoors Leaders Award recipient – tune in to find out who took the award this year. Finally, Erin Haws, Leech Lake large lake specialist, explains the process and ongoing public comment period behind the new fisheries management plan for the third largest lake entirely within the state of Minnesota – Leech Lake. The post Episode 605 – Recapping Klobuchar interview, Alaska and Ambler Road, Outdoor Leaders, Leech Lake appeared first on Outdoor News .
https://www.outdoornews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Aug-8-long-show.mp3 Brad Parsons recently announced his retirement from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources fisheries division effective this September, and he joins Rob Drieslein for a two-part interviewing recapping his career and analyzing the state of sportfishing in the state. Tim Lesmeister also joins Drieslein to make the case for his favorite new location app, What3words . The pair also discuss the status of sharp-tailed grouse in Minnesota and Wisconsin where seasons for the gamebird have been restricted, or even closed. The post Episode 604 – Retiring MN DNR fisheries chief Brad Parsons, “What3Words” app, sharp-tailed grouse appeared first on Outdoor News .
Episode 603 – Warm-water fishing, DNR’s Nate Huck on 3-duck bag limit proposal, Fish kills in 2026
Jul 31, 202654 min
https://www.outdoornews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Aug-1-long-show.mp3 Nate Huck from the Minnesota DNR joins the show this week to outline the three-bird, any-duck bag limit alternative the agency is pitching to state waterfowlers. Tim Lesmeister and host Rob Drieslein talk warm-water fishing plus new chronic wasting disease surveillance from the Minnesota DNR this fall. They also discuss a new public comment period (through August 7) from the Trump administration on drain-tile rules near public wetlands, and the administration’s rule changes for the Endangered Species Act. Minnesota DNR Fish Health Supervisor Isaiah Tolo also joins the program this week to discuss the ample number of “fish mortality events” across the region this hot summer. The post Episode 603 – Warm-water fishing, DNR’s Nate Huck on 3-duck bag limit proposal, Fish kills in 2026 appeared first on Outdoor News .
Episode 602 – 3-duck limit in MN? ICAST, Ducks Unlimited, Black bear kills couple in Saskatchewan
Jul 24, 202654 minS0
https://www.outdoornews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/July-25-long-show.mp3
<p>Should Minnesota offer waterfowlers a three-bird, any-duck bag as an alternative to the regular six-bird bag? Tim Lesmeister and host Rob Drieslein tackle that question to start the show. Then Brian Knutson, sales and marketing director for Outdoor News, visits the broadcast to share the latest news and fishing industry insights from last week’s ICAST show in Orlando, Fla. Scott Anderson from Ducks Unlimited then previews the situation in the Duck Factory as the waterfowl season looms, plus insight into DU’s National Trip Auction happening in August and the...
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