Stevens County Hunting

With Morris as its seat, Stevens County takes in 564 square miles of the Red River Valley, the aspen parkland and the northwest lakes. Roughly 9,819 people lived here in 2024, 1.5% up on the 2020 base. Its DNR region is the Northwest Region; staff there work out of Bemidji. 3 deer permit areas split the county: 275, 272 and 273. GIS layers count close to 13,283 acres of state and federal ground within the line.

Land area from the Census 2024 Gazetteer, population from Census Vintage 2024 estimates, region from the DNR county region list, DPAs from the DNR deer permit area layer, public acres from DNR, USFS and USFWS GIS layers (not official acreages). Checked October 28, 2026.

Seasons that reach Stevens County

WMAs, state forests and private land share these dates in Stevens County; refuges, state parks and special hunts add their own rules.

Lottery DPAs need an antlerless permit for does in the firearm seasons; the DPA pages list the 2026 quota.

From the 2026-2027 Minnesota Hunting and Trapping Regulations booklet (Minnesota Department of Natural Resources) and the DNR deer permit area map, checked October 28, 2026.

WMAs, forests and refuges of Stevens County

Open ground in Stevens County spans 85 records: 57 waterfowl production areas, 27 wildlife management areas and 1 wetland management district. WPAs add near 9,835 acres of prairie wetland ground.

• Wetland management districts, 1 listedMorris Wetland Management District (55,532 ac*)
• Waterfowl production areas, 57Pepperton Waterfowl Production Area (918 ac), Johnson Waterfowl Production Area (645 ac*), Edwards Waterfowl Production Area (547 ac), Giese Waterfowl Production Area (473 ac), Long Lake Waterfowl Production Area (386 ac), Pomme De Terre River Waterfowl Production Area (382 ac), Schultz Waterfowl Production Area (343 ac), Fish Lake Waterfowl Production Area (326 ac), Mud Creek Waterfowl Production Area (309 ac), Sherstad Slough Waterfowl Production Area (278 ac), Fults Waterfowl Production Area (268 ac), Anderson Waterfowl Production Area (266 ac*), Lamprecht Waterfowl Production Area (250 ac), Mero Waterfowl Production Area (250 ac), Moore Waterfowl Production Area (244 ac), Smith Waterfowl Production Area (235 ac), Wente Waterfowl Production Area (234 ac), Pieske Waterfowl Production Area (228 ac), Mau Waterfowl Production Area (209 ac), Niemackl Slough Waterfowl Production Area (199 ac), Miller Waterfowl Production Area (199 ac), Lee Waterfowl Production Area (186 ac), Golden Waterfowl Production Area (185 ac), Dybdahl Waterfowl Production Area (174 ac*), Struck Waterfowl Production Area (165 ac), Kill Waterfowl Production Area (165 ac), Teal Waterfowl Production Area (163 ac), McNally Slough Waterfowl Production Area (160 ac), Pomme De Terre Lake Waterfowl Production Area (153 ac), Solvie Waterfowl Production Area (138 ac*), 27 more listed
• Wildlife management areas, 27 listedAlberta Wildlife Management Area (464 ac), Bill Freeman Wildlife Management Area (322 ac), Eldorado Wildlife Management Area (300 ac), Dolven Wildlife Management Area (268 ac), Benson Wildlife Management Area (239 ac*), John A. Scharf Memorial Wildlife Management Area (209 ac), Everglade Marshes Wildlife Management Area (181 ac), Horning Pit Wildlife Management Area (164 ac), Orville Erickson Wildlife Management Area (160 ac), Klason Wildlife Management Area (137 ac), Cin Wildlife Management Area (132 ac), Towner Wildlife Management Area (119 ac*), Selk Wildlife Management Area (92 ac), Eul Wildlife Management Area (90 ac), Muddy Creek Wildlife Management Area (90 ac), Old Gravel Pit Wildlife Management Area (81 ac*), Coleman Wildlife Management Area (78 ac), Robertson Wildlife Management Area (76 ac), Thedin Wildlife Management Area (61 ac), Brouillet Wildlife Management Area (50 ac), Mathison Wildlife Management Area (47 ac), Weiler Wildlife Management Area (47 ac), Dablow Wildlife Management Area (42 ac), Kline Wildlife Management Area (40 ac), Hennen Wildlife Management Area (35 ac), Reimers Wildlife Management Area (26 ac), Boekholt Grove Wildlife Management Area (25 ac)

* Acres for the whole property, which reaches into another county.

Walk-In land

The 2026 atlas lists 6 sites and roughly 424 acres of Walk-In Access in Stevens County.

• WIA #1061
• WIA #369
• WIA #791
• WIA #876
• WIA #877
• WIA #1050

Walk-In Access (WIA) Program

Skip Verlyn Marth Memorial Prairie Scientific and Natural Area: it is closed to hunting by rule or by the managing agency.

Public land hub · WMA index · Walk-In Access page · WPA index

Units from our Minnesota land list (DNR WMA, SNA, AMA, forest and park pages, USFWS and USFS records); acres by kind from the DNR management units layer, the USFS ownership layer and the USFWS interest layer (GIS measures); Walk-In Access from the DNR Walk-In Access program; special hunts from the booklet special hunt tables. Checked October 28, 2026.

Stevens County legal hunting light

Legal light for deer at Stevens County brackets sunrise and sunset by 30 minutes; ducks and geese open 30 minutes before sunrise and stop at sunset.

Clock time includes Daylight Saving Time until Nov. 1.

Hours rule from the DNR booklet shooting hours page; sun times calculated for the county centre (NOAA method, Central Time), checked against U.S. Naval Observatory tables; checked October 28, 2026. Legal hours for every county.