June 11, 2004

Closed areas include the Skipper Rock Island houseboat site on Rainy Lake, the Sexton Island tent site and North Junction Bay houseboat site on Namakan Lake, and the North Granite Cliff tent site on Sand Point Lake. Seven undeveloped areas that campers or picnickers might use also have been closed. The sites will be reopened […]

Wisconsin officials say this is an opportunity for state residents to support managing the river for ecosystem restoration as well as for commercial navigation, including devoting the $8.4 billion necessary over the next 50 years to fund that restoration work. The public hearing is one in a series the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is

At the event, everything is free and for kids 12 and under. There will be lots of prizes, food,and a great tournament in Chatfield’s Mill Creek Park. Registration begins at 9 a.m.

Arthur Colberg, who attended St. Cloud State University, was fishing with a Sauk Rapids woman when their canoe overturned in about 27 feet of water. The woman was picked up by another boater, according to the sheriff’s office. Life jackets were in the canoe, but were not being worn at the time of the accident.

Field Editor The recent discovery of over 400 dead songbirds beneath the guy wires of an Anoka County communications tower was by no means the first “tower kill” reported in Minnesota, but DNR biologists say the statewide extent of such kills is difficult to quantify. Very likely, some kills are undiscovered. “If someone doesn’t find

Splash guards are not anything new. I made my first set of splash guards out of a couple of semi-truck mud flaps back in the 1970s. I suppose I had read about them somewhere, or maybe seen another boat sporting mud flaps on the transom. I don’t remember where I got the idea. I do

125 crappies/102 bass discovered DNR Reports St. Paul A construction worker’s call of a freezer full of fish has led to gross overlimit charges against a St. Paul woman. The caller was renovating a residence in St. Paul. As part of the construction work, crews moved personal belongings out of a residence with the exception

St. Paul After an increase in 2003, state ruffed grouse counts showed a double-digit decline of 11 percent statewide this spring. Wildlife biologists with the Minnesota DNR say an unexpected drop in ruffed grouse survey numbers may be related to inclement spring weather during the time when counts were conducted. According to John Erb, a

Staff Writer St. Paul For the tenth consecutive year, spring turkey hunters have set a harvest record. According to the DNR, the 2004 kill came out to 8,330 birds. That’s up from 2003, also a record, when 7,650 jakes, toms, and the occasional bearded hen were killed during the spring season. According to DNR officials