The Northwest Region covers a broad area from Kittson County east to Lake of the Woods and south to Alexandria and Glenwood, Minnesota. Only DPA 111, which includes Beltrami Island State Forest, is designated as one-deer limit bucks only in the Northwest Region. Other DPAs are designated as one-deer limit bucks only, one-deer limit antlerless permit lottery, one-deer limit either sex or even five-deer limit in some permit areas, mainly in the southeast part of the state. Hunting is the DNR's primary tool for keeping deer numbers within management goals. We didn't have even close to a severe winter last winter.'īecause of that, several deer permit areas - or DPAs, as they're commonly known - in northwest Minnesota offer the opportunity to shoot up to three deer, for hunters who buy bonus permits in addition to their regular license. 'We had two weeks of extremely cold weather, and that was it. 'Take a look at this past winter,' Klemek said. That includes much of northwest Minnesota, which lies in a transition area between prairie and forest that whitetails find to their liking.Ī mild winter meant female deer came into spring in good reproductive shape.
Numbers are especially strong in areas that offer a mix of woodland and agricultural habitat.
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