OUTDOORS
Questions for DNR on its trout program
Some frequently asked questions about rainbow trout management on Lake Superior
March 04, 2010
Trout plan pinched by budget
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is making changes to the way it raises, stocks and manages trout under its statewide trout program.March 04, 2010
Signs of spring mean steelies season looms
Come April, the long northern Minnesota winter finally parts. North Shore streams surge with snowmelt, their dark waters ricocheting downstream.
By Michael Furtman, Minnesota Conservtion Volunteer , March 04, 2010
Another inline skate race planned
A new athletic event will be added to the Two Harbors spring calendar. North Shore Inline Marathon Executive Director Tara Alfonsi announced last week the launch of a competition for skaters, runners and walkers – the May Day 10K.March 04, 2010
DNR officer reports: March 5
Minnesota DNR conservation officer reports filed March 1.
March 04, 2010
Gypsie moth hunt widens 
Northeastern Minnesota is the central battleground this year in the state’s war against tree-eating gypsy moths.
By Forum Newspapers , February 25, 2010
Starwatch: Spring brings new glimpse at stars
Every year March ushers in spring, whose inexorable advance sends the nighttime hours into a grand retreat.
By Deane Morrison, University of Minnesota , February 25, 2010
Curling standings: Feb. 25
February 25, 2010
Pushing rocks
It was a busy Saturday at the Two Harbors Curling Club with the U.S. mens curling team on television in the lounge and an open house on the ice where experts taught novices the fine points of the sport.
February 25, 2010
Deer baiting debate rises again
Rep. David Dill, DFL-Crane Lake, sees a contradiction between illegal baiting of deer in Minnesota and legal hunting over food plots planted to attract deer.
By Forum Newspapers , February 18, 2010
Final deer hunt tally shows restrictions
A strategy to achieve deer population goals by allowing hunters to harvest fewer deer succeeded in 2009, according to final deer harvest numbers the Minnesota DNR has released.
By Minnesota DNR , February 18, 2010
Taking a walk around the lake
The idea was born innocently enough, the way many big undertakings are hatched.
By Sam Cook, Forum Newspapers , February 18, 2010
Curling Standings: Feb. 19
Second Half of Season
February 18, 2010
Watch and play curling
The Two Harbors Curling Club is hosting open houses during the Olympic Games. Watch curling and then try it.
February 18, 2010
DNR report: Through Feb. 15
DNR officer reports through Feb. 15.
February 18, 2010
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Outdoors funding meetings set
A committee that recommends how to spend sales tax money on outdoors projects plans a series of meetings to hear from conservation professionals and the general public. The Lessard-Sams Outdoor Heritage Council must annually recommend how to spend millions of dollars raised from a sales tax increas
Posted by: Don Davis on Jul 29, 2009 at 3:37 PM | Capitol ChatterJuly 4 BWCAW blowdown
Today the Attic
Green, green, it's green they say
Mike Kilgore
Mike Kilgore says the green Minnesotans pay in a higher tax beginning Wednesday will mean a greener Minnesota in a year.
Minnesota forests will stay green, prairies wil
Fees eyed to help outdoor programs
Higher fees keep could keep spending on outdoors programs from deeper funding cuts. Even with millions of dollars in fee increases, some budgets may shrink rapidly, Minnesota legislators say. For instance, state tax money headed to the Pollution Control Agency would shrink by 19 percent under a fu
Posted by: Don Davis on Apr 23, 2009 at 7:27 PM | Capitol ChatterSick birds?
Reports of sick, dying or dead redpolls and pine siskins have been cropping up on the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union's e-mail listserv, and many of those reports are from this area. The experts say the culprit probably is a form of salmonella, and that it's a fairly common thing with these birds at
Posted by: John Lundy on Apr 5, 2009 at 5:32 PM | The Wannabe Birder
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