Outdoors
Tracking the Minnesota turkey hunt: 40 years can tell a lot
Forty years after the first state turkey season, a current snapshot is revealing.
Outdoors
Currents: Andy Harris, Loppet adventure camps director
On working with Minneapolis' disadvantaged youth, his currents reads, "Dear Sugars," and pulling out his skis again.
Outdoors
The Bike Guy column: Lessons from scuttling a Minneapolis bike theft scheme
One takeaway from the arrest: Register your bike, and you just might get it back.
Outdoors
When architects decided to build — a new Cabin Country
It was the 1960s, and the cabins were a nod to modernism.
Outdoors
Fixation on weather obscures spring signs all around us
Nature Notes: Vocal birds, other signs point to an outdoors in transition.
Outdoors
Learn about birds, meet naturalists, stargaze, fly fish
Programs at state and regional parks (make sure to check online for updates related to weather).
Local
Minn. college student ID'd as snowboarder who died at Spirit Mountain
He was on the recreation area's most challenging hill.
Outdoors
Outdoors
DNR adds deer plan meetings in metro area
The Department of Natural Resources scrambled Tuesday to arrange public meetings in the Twin Cities metro area after none were made.
Outdoors
DNR plan calls for smaller deer harvest than what hunters' group seeks
Over the past 16 months, the DNR has met with a 19-member stakeholder group to develop the state's first-ever deer management plan following complaints about poor oversight by the agency.
West Metro
From Bde Maka Ska to the seven seas: Chaska native set to race around the world
This summer, Chaska native Nabil Amra will undertake his biggest challenge yet when he and 29 other skippers embark on a nonstop, 30,000-mile race around the globe, each sailing alone and without the help of modern technology.
Outdoors
Anderson: Federal project leader sees work as 'the front lines of protection' for wetlands, waterfowl
Set of Waterfowl Production Areas provides useful feedback.
Outdoors
A sinking feeling: No sight and no sound of Captain the hunting dog
A routine bird hunt turned into an agonizing search.
Local
Lutsen Mountains ski area seeks to double in size, says survival is at stake
Family-owned North Shore attraction says it must grow to compete.
Local
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Bad news for boaters: Ice-outs on Minnesota lakes behind schedule
No lakes have yet recorded ice-out so far, making for an unusually late season.
Outdoors
Currents: Carrol Henderson, supervisor of Minnesota's Nongame Wildlife Program
Henderson, on reparations from the Deepwater oil spill and what it means for Minnesota's loons, on his birding trips abroad, and on his love of photography.
Outdoors
Anderson: Cold truth about the coming fish opener? Have augers ready
We've seen this kind of spring, and it could mean iced lakes Up North.
Outdoors
Seasoned Minnesota campers offer lessons from their rookie mistakes
We've enlisted a corps of seasoned tenters to share their experience and advice.
Outdoors
Minnesotans, on three things about their spring outdoors passions
Here is how the trout angler, hike, gravel rider, trail runner and birder think about spring.
Outdoors
Late to hunting and shooting, but now Minnesotan is all in
Getting into the sport has opened Tina Dokken's eyes to what's needed to sustain it.
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