Outdoors Calendar

August

16 -- Pheasants Forever annual banquet, Timbermist, 829-4736 for tickets

19 -- Deadline for Camp Ripley archery deer hunt applications

Deadline for special youth deer hunt applications

22 -- First day to submit Lac qui Parle controlled goose hunt zone applications

25-Sept. 5 -- Minnesota State Fair

27 -- Northerns Inc. tournament, Gull Lake, new teams welcome, 829-0970, 829-1211

September

1 -- Bear hunting opener

Mourning dove hunting opener

Snipe, rail hunting opener

3 -- Early goose hunting opener (tentative)

8 -- Deadline for either-sex deer hunt permit applications

10 -- Northerns Inc. tournament, Whitefish Lake, new teams welcome, 829-0970, 829-1211

14 -- Last day to submit Lac qui Parle controlled goose hunt zone applications

15 -- Southeast trout streams open to catch and release fishing

17 -- Small game hunting opener

Archery deer hunting opener

17-18 -- Northerns Inc. tournament, new teams welcome, 829-0970, 829-1211

24-25 -- Take a Kid hunting weekend

30 -- Lake trout fishing season closes

October

12-16 -- Fall turkey hunt (first season)

15 -- Pheasant hunting opener

19-23 -- Fall turkey hunt (second season)

22 -- Prairie chicken hunting opener

29 -- Furbearer trapping opener for mink, muskrat, beaver, otter

31 -- Trout fishing summer season in lakes closes

November

4 -- Last day to upgrade firearms deer hunting licenses

5 -- Firearms deer hunting opener

26 -- Muzzleloader deer hunting opener