September 17, 2004

A long list of wildlife artists, including Jim Killen, Kyle Sherod, Valeria Yost, Michael Sieve, and David Maass will be on hand at the event. Additional presentations will be made by dog trainer Tom Dokken and the University of Minnesota Raptor Center. Admission is free and attendees will receive a commemorative poster. For more information, […]

The producers are looking for three dogs in need of “doggy makeovers” along with their owners. These will be dogs that don’t respond to their owners and need some specialized training. Dog and owner would allow dogs, trainers, and TV camera to follow them closely for what would probably be a six-month training course. For

Programs such as trapping and polar fleece mitten-making are among the offerings, as are snowmobiling, ice fishing, dog mushing, and cross-country skiing, according to BOW coordinator Jean Bergerson. Space for this popular annual workshop is limited to 100 women. Women interested in registering for the program should contact either the DNR Information Center at 1-888-MINNDNR

The DNR also announced Mike Hammer is the new Enforcement Division education program coordinator. Capt. Hammer, the son of retired CO Fred Hammer, has served as CO in several areas, as well as regional training officer for the division.

Staff Writer St Paul The DNR recently hired a familiar face on the Minnesota conservation front. Mark LaBarbera, former president of the Minnesota Outdoor Heritage Alliance, began last Wednesday as the DNR’s director of communications. LaBarbera replaces C.B. Bylander, who is now the DNR’s new Fish and Wildlife Division outreach section chief. “In the long

Contributing Writer Minnesota hunters take three diving ducks that often are called bluebills, broadbills and ringbills. Waterfowlers often lump them together. Their proper names are lesser scaup, greater scaup, and ringnecks. State hunters took 34,000 lesser scaup in 2003. It may surprise many hunters to learn that last year Minnesotans took 72,000 ringnecks, twice the