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Doug Smith: On Outdoors

Ice fishing enforcement

Ice fishing enforcement

Ice fishing enforcement: Behind closed doors

A 2002 decision by the Minnesota Supreme Court has resulted in DNR officers playing cat-and-mouse with ice anglers who illegally fish.

Field report

DNR proposal: Let duck season begin earlier

Minnesota's duck season could start a week earlier than usual if a proposal by the Department of Natural Resources is accepted by the Legislature.

There's a fly in the ointment of crane recovery

A massive effort to help restore whooping cranes to the wild may hinge on an annoying little insect - the black fly.

Take a kid ice fishing

This Saturday, Sunday and Monday, anglers 18 and older don't need a fishing license if they are accompanied by a child younger than 16.

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Doug Smith travels into the Ontario wilderness where his group catches many feisty lake trout.

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DNR: Sales strong for new critical habitat plates

Minnesota car owners have bought 20,000 critical habitat license plates since four new designs were unveiled six months ago.

What's killing Minnesota's moose?

An aerial survey finds fewer animals. The numbers aren't definitive, but they support other evidence that the moose population is in trouble.

$78.5M to stop carp invasion

State and federal officials vowed to expand an aggressive campaign to prevent Asian carp from establishing populations in the Great Lakes.

Dennis Anderson, columnist

The puzzle of politics never quite clears up

Actions by Rep. Phyllis Kahn that probably weren't meant to be public raise the usual question: Why?

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