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Outdoors
09/04/2008 12:00 AM An organic farming field day will be conducted by the Midwest Organic and Sustainable Education Service (MOSES) at a certified organic vegetable farm near Wrenshall on Saturday, Sept. 20.
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08/29/2008 12:00 AM The Carlton County Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) would like to invite citizens and organizations to a public meeting regarding the Deer Creek and Nemadji River impaired waters listing.
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08/21/2008 12:00 AM A special All-Games Horse Show is planned for this Saturday, Aug. 23, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the back arena adjacent to the race horse barns on the Carlton County Fairgrounds.
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08/21/2008 12:00 AM Minnesota law requires “effective March 1, 2007, a person born after December 31, 1989, who has not been issued a trapping license in a previous license year may not obtain a trapping license without a Trapper Education Certificate.
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08/21/2008 12:00 AM The two-mile Moose Lake State Park spur biking and hiking trail that connects the park to the Willard Munger Trail is closed until Nov. 6.
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08/21/2008 12:00 AM Mike and Linda Neault, through the Carlton County Chapter of Minnesota Deer Hunters, are again hosting a free firearm safety course for women.
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08/21/2008 12:00 AM This year, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) continues its State Fair tradition of offering a wide range of free educational exhibits, presentations, and entertainment at its historic building and park site. But unlike other years, the theme will be Celebrating the State’s Sesquicentennial.
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08/21/2008 12:00 AM The University of Minnesota, Department of Soil, Water and Climate is hosting the 2008 Region V Soil Judging Contest out of the Cloquet Forestry Center. The contest will take place Sept. 22-26.
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08/14/2008 12:00 AM For the first time ever, a two-day early-season antlerless deer hunt will be held in four permit areas north and east of Duluth this fall. The firearms hunt will be held Oct. 11 and 12 in permit areas where deer populations are considered too high.
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Forum Communications Co. Jeff Essler, regional director for Ducks Unlimited’s Great Plains office in Bismarck and Scott Stephens, DU’s director of conservation planning, talked waterfowl issues in a recent question-and-answer session
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Forum Communications Co. North Dakota’s 2008 waterfowl season has been set.
Opening day for North Dakota residents is Sept. 27 for ducks, geese, coots and mergansers. Nonresidents can begin hunting waterfowl in North Dakota Oct. 4.
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| Jan Titus |
Forum Communications Co. Jan Titus of Fargo photographed this chipmunk
at Lake 6 near Frazee, Minn. “The chipmunk was eating a peanut that it was given,” Titus wrote. “It let me get a few close-up shots.”
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Forum Communications Co. It must seem easy for the Barber brothers, fishing this way. Driving up to Wild Rice Lake north of Duluth, Minn. Putting the 14-foot aluminum boat in at the ramp. Motoring anywhere they want to go with the 9.9-horsepower Johnson.
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Forum Communications Co. North Dakota’s youth-only deer hunting season will be held for 14- and 15-year-old first-time hunters Sept. 12-21.
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| Natoma Buskness |
Forum Communications Co. Chase Lake Wildlife Refuge celebrates 100 years of protecting pelicans
There are times Natoma Buskness will sit amongst the grasslands of the Chase Lake National Wildlife Refuge and soak in the view.
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| Wayne Mahlum of Glyndon, Minn. |
Forum Communications Co. Wayne Mahlum of Glyndon, Minn., photographed this loon July 5 making a splash on Buffalo Lake located 12 miles north of Detroit Lakes, Minn.
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Associated Press Fishing guide loves ZZ Top and his life on Lake Vermilion
Tom Wehler lives on an island on Lake Vermilion in northeast Minnesota just to be close to this kind of fishing action.
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Forum Communications Co. Kent Hrbek takes his outdoors show to Medora
MEDORA, N.D. – Kent Hrbek says people will often tell him how nice his tan is.
“I say, well, I don’t work indoors anymore,” Hrbek said. “I work outdoors.”
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Photo of the week Joe Antonoplos of south Fargo photographed these two juvenile Cooper’s hawks that have been nesting in his back yard this summer. “Most of the summer we have just been able to hear the adults and possibly the young ones,” Antonoplos wrote. “This past week, things became much more interesting. The juvelines (we believe there are three but have been able to photograph two together) apparently left the nest and are spending a great deal of time in the trees and on the wires.”
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Associated Press Florida keeps alligator farms full by culling wild nests
It’s 7 a.m. in the marsh, and like some sort of cigar-chomping swamp cowboy, biologist Lindsey Hord is about to reach for something that could cost him a few fingers – or worse – if he’s not careful.
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| Gail Kircher |
Forum Communications Co. Gail Kircher of Reile’s Acres north of Fargo photographed these deer hiding in the weeds last month near Black Tiger Bay on Devils Lake, N.D.
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