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August 6, 2020

White pelicans like their summer home in Minnesota

August means American white pelicans, which show up on Minnesota lakes and ponds looking for new fishing spots.
Outdoors
August 6, 2020

Leaving Eden Prairie to make the northern cabin home

Cabin Country: Happy days are here again with a move to "the lake."
Outdoors
August 6, 2020

Minnesota fishing report

A look at where the fish are biting.
Outdoors
August 4, 2020
colorful male pheasant bird close up

Walz cancels Governor's Pheasant Opener because of virus threat

A statement from the governor's office said the 2021 Governor's Pheasant Opener will return to Fairmont, its scheduled host community this year.
Duluth
August 4, 2020
Beavers are so abundant in Voyageurs National Park that they may be helping moose populations by becoming food for wolves.

Unlikely food source may be behind moose success at Voyageurs Park

Voyageurs moose have a robust ally — or, perhaps, a sacrificial pawn — that others don't: American beavers.
Outdoors
August 3, 2020
From the U.S. Forest Service. Improper disposal of waste at a site on Alpine Lake. ORG XMIT: nWU_2nxhXJjYaEZc2wB4

As Minnesotans rush outdoors for an escape, bad behavior follows

The surge in ATV use, boating, camping, and other outdoor activities in Minnesota has brought a dark element with it.
Outdoors
August 1, 2020
Still gathered together, whitetail bucks, now at the beginning of August, are already in preparation for the coming fall and, later still, winter. Hun

Anderson: Call to the outdoors these days is more like a siren

Hunting, as an educational and gratifying fall escape, gains importance in these uncertain times
Outdoors
July 31, 2020
Crystal Gail Welcome hiked through the Superior Hiking Trail between Castle Danger and Gooseberry Falls in Two Harbors, Minn. on Tuesday. ] ALEX KORMA

Superior trail thru-hiker's message for justice ends at George Floyd's memorial

Atlanta woman completes 24 days on trail, then visits George Floyd memorial.
Inspired
July 31, 2020
A bumblebee pollinates a Wild Bergamot flower. Crow Hassan Regional Park is home to a remarkably diverse and thriving prairie that's been built and ma

Crow-Hassan's prairie is a mosaic of wild things and built to last

Crow-Hassan Park Reserve's 50-year-old prairie covers 1,200 acres in a 2,600-acre park where nature flourishes northwest of the Twin Cities near St. Michael.
July 31, 2020
A bumblebee pollinates a Wild Bergamot flower. Crow Hassan Regional Park is home to a remarkably diverse and thriving prairie that's been built and ma

Crow-Hassan's prairie is a mosaic of wild things and built to last

Crow-Hassan Park Reserve's 50-year-old prairie covers 1,200 acres in a 2,600-acre park where nature flourishes northwest of the Twin Cities near St. Michael.
Curious Minnesota
July 31, 2020
A flock of wild turkey roamed the streets Tuesday in Northeast Minneapolis. ] ANTHONY SOUFFLE • anthony.souffle@startribune.com A flock of wild turk

Why do wild turkeys seem to thrive in the Twin Cities metro?

When it comes to urban living, it seems like wild turkeys are as common a neighbor as any these days.
Inspired
July 31, 2020
A bumblebee pollinates a Wild Bergamot flower. Crow Hassan Regional Park is home to a remarkably diverse and thriving prairie that's been built and ma

Gallery: Crow-Hassan prairie is built to last

The wildlife, wildflowers and wild grasses make for a diverse ecoystem.
Outdoors
July 31, 2020
Jonathan C. Slaght with a fish owl.

Researcher and author pursued endangered fish owl to remote, untamed ends of the earth

Pursuit of an endangered fish owl took author and researcher to the wilds of far east Russia.
Outdoors
July 30, 2020
Bob Nasby casted a 16-foot fly rod built in Scotland in the 1880s. Nasby orders such rods from Scotland, then reconditions them.

Anderson: Nasby's pandemic hobby is casting for new interests

Bob Nasby, a Twin Cities fisherman and fly-casting instructor, has a new obsession: the collection, restoration and casting of centuries-old salmon rods, or what also are called spey rods.
Outdoors
July 30, 2020
An adult cicada emerged from its exoskeleton.

That buzz of summer — the cicada — is more often heard than seen

The shrill buzzing is a warm-weather sound, heard during daylight and intensifying with heat. These annual cicadas are common insects, more often heard than seen because they sing loudly from trees.
Outdoors
July 30, 2020

Minnesota fishing report

A look at where fish are biting.
Duluth
July 30, 2020
More people are heading into the Boundary Waters this summer as developed campgrounds fill up or remain closed and the pandemic diverts more summer va

As newcomers increase in Boundary Waters, so do calls for help

Volunteer rescue squads warn that their resources to help are limited.
Outdoors
July 27, 2020
Shown Tuesday near Gooseberry Falls, Crystal Gail Welcome made her way on a wet day. "This is one way I can stand up for justice," she said of her thr

Atlanta woman sends message one step at a time on Superior Trail

Crystal Gail Welcome, a Black social activist, is more than a third of the way done with her 310-mile trek.
Local
July 27, 2020

Thousands attended northern Minnesota rodeo, despite crowd restrictions

Outdoors
July 26, 2020
Wildlife photographer Bill Marchel checks an apple tree planted on his property. Marchel has planted some 5,000 trees of various types in the past 25

Anderson: Marchel sets good example for some of wildlife's finest critters

Bill Marchel created a habitat on his 70 acres of land to attract deer and other wildlife
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