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Anglers return to handcrafted bamboo fishing rods

ESKO, Minn. (AP) — When Phil Johnson was in college, making $3 an hour working summers at the paper mill in Cloquet, he saved enough to buy himself a bamboo fly rod. "I bought an...
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Volunteers add $8 million in value to DNR

Nearly 26,000 citizens donated services valued at $8 million during 2011 to assist the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) in accomplishing its conservation mission through a variety of projects and programs. That's the...
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DNR looking for safe and responsible hunter mentors

People who have paid attention to recent outdoors newspaper, magazine and television stories may have noticed pictures of beaming youths following a successful hunt. What's often missing from the picture is the young hunter's...
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St. Thomas University student researchers Grant Schmura of Stillwater and Anna S

Tracking turtles on the move

SHOREVIEW, Minn. (AP) — Something strange is happening at Lake Judy. A band of four people wander the frozen expanse. They're led by a diviner of sorts, a woman with a gizmo that looks vaguely like a flimsy stepladder. ...

Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012

Anglers return to handcrafted bamboo fishing rods

Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012

Extravaganza still a go, in spite of iffy ice on Gull

DNR looking for safe and responsible hunter mentors

Volunteers add $8 million in value to DNR

Monday, Feb. 6, 2012

Tracking turtles on the move

Friday, Feb. 3, 2012

Fish house fun

New map pinpoints Lyme disease risk areas

Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012

Ward to introduce bill to restrict trap use

Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012

Winter wings

Report proposes dividing Great Lakes, Mississippi

Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012

Minn., ND, working to fix Lake Winnipeg dead zone

Friday, Jan. 27, 2012

Navigating through this unusual winter

Winter hiking - and a lesson in area history

Providing some electricity at the Minneapolis Boat Show

Pike special regs discussions in Little Falls, Walker

Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012

It's official: The Extravaganza is on for Feb. 11

MN legislative panels to hear wolf hunting bills

Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012

DNR proposes to let Minn. hunters take 400 wolves

Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012

DNR says donations to wildlife tax checkoff fall

Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012

Wis. DNR to landowners: Get ready to kill wolves

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