OUTDOORS
Heat is on, but swim at own risk
A federally funded beach monitoring program that usually starts looking for harmful bacteria in May along North Shore waterfronts still hasn’t started this summer.By Forum Newspapers , July 29, 2010
DNR report: July 30
Reports filed Sunday from area conservation officers for the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources.July 29, 2010
Case made for wolf protections 
A national environmental group is asking the federal government to keep Endangered Species Act protections for wolves in the Great Lakes and Rocky Mountains until wolves have returned across much more of the U.S.
By Forum Newspapers , July 22, 2010
Find alternatives to ash trees
Minnesota now has more ash trees than any other state, a claim held by Michigan until the emerald ash borer arrived there and destroyed millions of ash beginning in 2002.
By University of Minnesota Extension Service , July 22, 2010
DNR report: July 23
Reports filed Sunday from area conservation officers for the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources.
July 22, 2010
DNR report: July 16
Reports filed Sunday from area conservation officers for the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources.
July 15, 2010
Warmer Superior temps expected
Researchers at the Large Lakes Observatory of the University of Minnesota Duluth predict that the surface of the open waters of Lake Superior will be exceptionally warm by August. They suspect that water temperatures may exceed the high recorded during the strong El Niño summer of 1998, 68 degrees.
By News-Chronicle , July 15, 2010
Group opposes gas tax money for off-road trails
A group that opposes the use of motorized recreational vehicles on public lands has asked Minnesota to stop spending millions of gas tax dollars on programs for snowmobiles, boats, dirt bikes and all-terrain vehicles and fix roads and bridges instead.
By Forum Newspapers , July 15, 2010
Two Harbors Fishing League results: July 16
July 15, 2010
Two Harbors Fishing League results: July 9
July 08, 2010
DNR report: July 9
Reports filed Sunday from area conservation officers for the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources.
July 08, 2010
Trapshooting results: July 9
At the midpoint of the 2010 trapshooting season, the VanHouse Construction team is leading the league. Following are the standings for the first half of the season.
July 08, 2010
DNR report: July 2
Reports filed Sunday from conservation officers for the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources.
July 01, 2010
Plenty of highlights at 18th fishing outing
For 18 years, the smiles have always outnumbered the amount of fish caught. That notion may have been rivaled Monday as the Silver Bay Veterans Home launched 13 charter boats in Knife River, giving 45 veterans another chance to hit Lake Superior and land a big one.
By Mike Creger , July 01, 2010
Change in Kamloops stocking on Shore
Kamloops rainbow trout bound for Lake Superior have been stocked in Amity Creek for the first time ever this spring.
By Sam Cook, Forum Newspapers , June 24, 2010
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Hunting payments in outdoors bill
Minnesota landowners would be paid to open their property to hunters under a bill nearing a final Minnesota legislative vote. Several other states have had success with similar programs, said Sen. Tom Saxhaug, DFL-Grand Rapids. He said the program is important because good hunting opportunities are
Posted by: Andrew Tellijohn on May 13, 2010 at 11:59 PM | Capitol ChatterLawmakers look at outdoor funding
Seventy-three outdoors projects ranging from producing geologic atlases to restoring wetlands to getting urban children outside would get funds under bills Minnesota senators considered Tuesday. The two measures, from citizen-legislator committee recommendations, would spend $85 million. Similar bi
Posted by: Don Davis on Apr 14, 2010 at 5:55 AM | Capitol ChatterOutdoors 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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