While we continue to slowly inch towards the weekend, let’s all take a minute to grab a coffee or whiskey (no judgement) and get into what this beautiful Tuesday has to offer.
Here's what's worth reading about so far this week:
Blocked - Canadian First Nation shuts out non-indigenous hunters 🛑
Don’t shoot! - Minnesota officials hopeful that hunters let tagged bears walk this fall 🐻
Lion season approved - Nebraska opens things up for 2026 🐈
Busted from above - Two Ontario men nailed for hunting moose from a boat 🫎
New underpants needed - Watch as these hounds do their job a little too well😳
CAN THEY DO THAT?
FIRST NATION BARS NON-INDIGENOUS HUNTERS FROM TRADITIONAL TERRITORY AMID OVERHUNTING CONCERNS
In a bold move to protect local wildlife and sustain their community's way of life, a Canadian First Nation has announced its plans to bar non-Indigenous hunters, fishermen, and trappers from its traditional territory. The decision, made public during a press conference over the weekend, comes just weeks before the province's general moose hunting season opener on September 15th. As members of the First Nation began to post no-trespassing signs over the weekend, the decision signaled the start of what could become a contentious legal and cultural standoff.
The Bloodvein First Nation's traditional lands lie along the eastern shore of Manitoba’s Lake Winnipeg, a region rich in moose and other wildlife that the community relies on for subsistence. Chief Lisa Young explained that the ban is a response to years of overhunting and wasteful practices by outsiders, which have severely impacted local populations…
HEADLINES // DIGESTIBLE SNIPPETS
One of Minnesota’s tagged bruins
🙅 Minnesota Officials Ask Hunters to Try and Avoid Shooting Collared, Ear-Tagged Bears This Fall. The state’s Department of Natural Resources is pleading with hunters to avoid shooting radio-collared black bears marked with large, colorful ear tags as the bear hunting season approaches. These 50 marked research bears, primarily females, are monitored across zones 27, 45, and parts of the no-quota zone, especially near Chippewa National Forest, Camp Ripley, Brainerd/Baxter, and Duluth. While it’s legal to harvest collared bears, the DNR emphasizes their value for long-term data collection, urging hunters to pause and check for visible ear tags.
“We ask hunters to avoid shooting these research bears,” said Andrew Tri, Minnesota DNR bear research scientist. “These collared bears give us much of the data we use in bear management and are most valuable to us when they are collared for multiple years. Thank you to hunters who have opted not to take collared bears in past years and hunters who choose not to harvest collared bears this season.”
If a collared bear is taken, hunters are asked to report it to the DNR’s Wildlife Research Office in Grand Rapids at (218) 328-8879 or (218) 328-8874 and return the collar and any heart monitor found.
🐈 Nebraska Approves 2026 Mountain Lion Hunting Season with Adjusted Harvest Limits. The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission approved a 2026 mountain lion hunting season during their August 22nd meeting in McCook, setting regulations for three hunting units including Niobrara, Wildcat Hills, and Pine Ridge. The Niobrara Unit's harvest limit was increased to six mountain lions, with a sublimit of three females, up from four lions and two females the previous season, due to evidence of an expanding population. The Wildcat Hills Unit maintains a harvest limit of three lions with a sublimit of two females, unchanged despite a reduced population due to high mortalities, following local landowner input. The Pine Ridge Unit's limit remains at 12 lions with a sublimit of six females.
The season will run from January 2 to February 28, 2026, with an auxiliary season from March 14 to 31, 2026, if harvest limits are not met, allowing the use of dogs. Up to 960 permits will be issued by lottery for Pine Ridge, 480 for Niobrara, and 240 for Wildcat Hills, all of which will be available solely for Nebraska residents. As per the department, the objectives vary by unit. In Wildcat Hills, the goal is reduction, state biologists are hoping to slow growth in Niobrara, and are looking to maintain a resilient population in Pine Ridge.
✈️ Two Ontario Men Fined Over $10,000 for Illegal Moose Hunt. A pair of men from Lansdowne, Ontario were fined a combined total of $10,020 and had their hunting licenses suspended after illegally shooting a bull moose from a moving boat. The incident, which took place on Tatachikapika Lake, came to light following an aerial patrol by conservation officers in October of last fall.
According to the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, the two men, Daniel Campbell and David Desjardins, pleaded guilty to charges of unlawfully discharging a firearm from a conveyance and using a boat to harass wildlife. Court records indicate that on October 12, 2024, Campbell fired a high-powered rifle from the bow of a boat operated by Desjardins, killing the moose in violation of provincial hunting regulations.
Justice of the Peace Wade R. Cachagee imposed fines of over $5,000 on each individual. Additionally, both men received hunting license suspensions of at least one year, which will remain in effect until the fines are paid in full.
THOUGHTS FROM THE STAND // FROM OUR NOTEPAD
These days the budget for truth and reality is tiny compared to the budget for deception and fakery.
The heart of the problem is often a problem of the heart.
“For all the sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these: it could have been”
In solitude, we lose our loneliness.
The devil can scrap, but my man always wins 🙏
VIDEO // SOME THINGS JUST HAVE TO BE SEEN
😳 Filing this under "things that would absolutely make me sh*t my pants". Watch as the hounds exactly what they are looking for and he comes out flying!
I’d need a new pair of underpants…
WANDERINGS // A SFW GLIMPSE OF OUR BROWSER HISTORY
So…there’s a father-son duo that specialize in tattoo art but not in applying it, in removing it. Yes, after you (or a loved one) dies, you can preserve their ink-laden memory be enlisting the help of their company, which physically removes a corpse’s tattooed skin (really), treats it, and then returns the tattooed skin to the deceased’s loved ones. I will probably never be able to convince my wife of this, but apparently American motels are back in style. If happen to be into the combination of motors and hotels, you’ll love these old-school American towns that are still filled with 1950s charm. And finally, here’s a gathering of peculiar animals you, in all likelihood, had no idea existed.
EYE CANDY // PICTURES > WORDS
Views for days
Oh, and one more thing…
