Outdoors Calendar
JUNE
23-24 - Marsh & Meadows HRC hunt test; Hunt's Point Sportsman's Club, Pequot Lakes; register at www.huntspointclub.com or phone (218) 568-8445
JULY
13 - Elk license lottery deadline
14-15 - 3-D archery shoot, Brainerd Archery Club,828-3439
15 - Crow second season opens
27 - Deadline for fall turkey license lottery
Deadline for prairie chicken license lottery
AUGUST
1 - Deer licenses available
17 - Deadline for Camp Ripley archery deer hunt license applications
Deadline for special youth deer hunt license applications
Bear baiting begins
18-19 - 3-D archery shoot, Brainerd Archery Club, 828-3439
SEPTEMBER
1 - Bear season opens
Mourning dove, snipe and rail seasons open
Early goose season opens (tentative)
6 - Deadline to apply for either-sex deer permits and special hunts
11 - Smallmouth bass are catch-and-release only
15 - Small game seasons open
Archery deer season opens
22 - Woodcock season opens
22-23 - Take a kid hunting weekend
29 - Waterfowl season opens
Moose season opens (northeast)
30 - Lake trout season closes
Trout season closes in streams
OCTOBER
13 - Pheasant season opens
Early anterless deer season opens
14 - Bear season closes
15 - Second crow season closes
17-21 - Fall turkey opens (first season)
18-19 - Camp Ripley archery hunt (first season)
20 - Prairie chicken season opens
24 - Prairie chicken season closes
24-28 - Fall turkey opens (second season)
26-27 - Camp Ripley archery hunt (second season)
27 - Furbearer season opens for mink, muskrat, beaver, otter
30 - Mourning dove season closes
31 - Trout summer season in lakes closes
NOVEMBER
3 - Firearms deer season opens
4 - Rail and snipe seasons close
5 - Woodcock season closes
24 - Muzzleloader deer season opens
Bobcat, fisher, and marten trapping seasons open
30 - Sharptailed grouse season closes
DECEMBER
7 - Deadline to apply for 2008 spring wild turkey hunts
9 - Close of fisher and pine marten trapping seasons
15 - Watercraft license renewals sent out
ATV license renewals sent out
31 - Archery deer season closes