{"id":219422,"date":"2025-09-11T23:45:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T23:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/219422\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T23:45:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T23:45:12","slug":"bear-hunting-in-minnesota-sees-notable-decline-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/219422\/","title":{"rendered":"Bear Hunting In Minnesota Sees Notable Decline This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bear hunting numbers are a bit down compared to last year in Minnesota.\u00a0 Glen Schmitt from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outdoornews.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Outdoor News<\/a> joined me on WJON.\u00a0 He says thru Monday registrations are at 1,650 bears shot, which is approximately 1,000 less than were shot last year at this time.\u00a0 Schmitt explains last year was an exceptionally high harvest season.\u00a0 There was very little natural forest foods in the woods last year while that was more plentiful this year due to larger amounts of rain in northern and central Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>Image Credit: JT Ray via Unsplash<\/p>\n<p>Image Credit: JT Ray via UnsplashGood Bear Season<\/p>\n<p>Schmitt says 1,650 is a good amount of bears shot over the first weekend.\u00a0 He says in 2023, 1,800 bears were shot during the entire season.\u00a0 The bear season continues in Minnesota through October 12.\u00a0 Schmitt says there were reports of very large bears being shot this year.\u00a0 Examples of that include a 560 pound bear shot near Babbitt and a 500 pound bear shot near Duluth. He isn&#8217;t aware of any bears being shot in the St. Cloud area this season but Schmitt says there are bears in rural areas surrounding St. Cloud.<\/p>\n<p>Early Teal Season<\/p>\n<p>The 5-day early teal season finished up earlier this week.\u00a0 Schmitt says reports indicate low teal numbers in Central Minnesota.\u00a0 He says the DNR has indicated teal numbers are down 60% across the state.<\/p>\n<p>photo courtesy of Andrew Schmitt for TSM<\/p>\n<p>photo courtesy of Andrew Schmitt for TSMGoose Season<\/p>\n<p>Goose season opened September 1 and continues through September 21.\u00a0 Schmitt says reports are better for goose season than the teal season, but it largely depends on where hunters were.\u00a0 He says participating in goose hunting has been diminishing over the past few years.<\/p>\n<p>This Weekend<\/p>\n<p>The youth waterfowl weekend is this Saturday and Sunday in Minnesota.\u00a0 \u00a0The archery deer and small game seasons open on Saturday as well in Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to listen to my conversation with Glen Schmitt, click below.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Becker, MN in Pictures<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bear hunting numbers are a bit down compared to last year in Minnesota.\u00a0 Glen Schmitt from Outdoor News&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":219423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[74198,16339,74199,2295,86313,159,74200,16340,67,132,68,837],"class_list":{"0":"post-219422","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-from-our-shows","9":"tag-from-the-wjon-newsroom","10":"tag-morning-newswatch-with-jay-caldwell","11":"tag-newsletter","12":"tag-outdoor-news","13":"tag-science","14":"tag-show-notes","15":"tag-st-cloud-news","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115188329573199854","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}