Northland Nature…Crocuses: Our first flowers to bloom
April 6, 2013 in Pine Journal
Each year in late March, I search along the hot spots of the south and west sides of buildings where the snow melts more quickly and temperatures are always a bit higher than at other sites, where spring comes first. Continue Reading
Gov. Scott Walker’s office has released the final report assembled by the Texas consultant hired to take a clinical look at Wisconsin’s Whitetail deer management practices. Among his recommendations are simplifying regulations and reducing the number of deer management units.
The firearms deer kill was down 34 percent compared to last year after the first four days of the season in a broad area north, south and west of Duluth, according to Rich Staffon, Department of Natural Resources area wildlife manager at Cloquet.
If you hang around the bird-watching hobby long enough there are a number of themes which you will find unavoidable. As much as you want to just sit there with your coffee and watch those feathered beauties outside your kitchen window, you inevitably get sucked into topical areas such as vocalizations, courtship behavior, migration, and taxonomy.
No other boats were in sight when Jarrid Houston’s family and friends left the dock on the Minong Flowage a
Grant Slukynsky is playing a sturgeon now, and judging by the bend in his pole, the fish is giving the 9-year-old everything he can handle. We’ve been fishing less than 10 minutes.
Some of us tolerate winter. Others embrace it. Then there’s this bunch. The first frosty streak of daylight cuts through the blackness at 6:45 a.m. as the 58 bikers, 54 runners and six skiers wait for the signal that it’s time for them to begin braving death.
What we are looking for, says Steve Foss, is a window. We are sitting in our solo ice-fishing shelters on Burntside Lake near Ely, jigging for lake trout. We have been jigging for several hours now with not so much as a hit, a bump or a nibble. 
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