“If you are ordering ammo, I am out of 20 gauge,” texted my friend, John Schreiner of Chicago, in response to me posting photos of targets that I was not too happy about. The caption to my photo read, “Guess I better order more ammo.”
John was jabbing me a little.
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For many years, Sam Seybold, buffer specialist with the Aitkin County Soil and Water Conservation District, spear-fished for bigmouth buffalo in Minnesota’s Rice Lake.
“I noticed that the number (of bigmouth buffalo) seemed to be less and less, and I’d never see any young ones, small ones, or anything. I noticed that would be something that was somewhat concerning,” Seybold said.
He reached out to Dr. Alec Lackmann, an ichthyologist (fish researcher) with the University of Minnesota Duluth’s Swenson College of Science and Engineering, who previously had studied bigmouth buffalo.
Hatchlings of aging bigmouth buffalo floundering in Minnesota’s Rice Lake Read More »
A focus on owls, ospreys – and prairie chickens, too – has earned Robert and Marcia Shelby recognition from avian ecologists, wildlife biologists, and birdwatchers statewide.
Work by the West Salem couple also earned them the title of DNR “Volunteers of the Year” for 2024.
Devotion to avian conservation earns West Salem couple Illinois DNR volunteer award Read More »
Big game hunting seasons are underway across the region, and
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A $1.2 million project to remove the Carpentersville Dam in Illinois will create a 10.2-mile unimpeded stretch of the Fox River, a stretch that is expected to benefit both fish and recreational kayak and canoe users.
Work was scheduled to begin this month. The removal project is expected to be finished in November.
Fox River fish expected to benefit from dam removal project in Carpentersville, Ill. Read More »
The Minnesota DNR is reminding hunters of a variety of deer hunting-related changes in effect for the upcoming seasons in northeast Minnesota.
The annual city of Grand Rapids special deer hunt began with the start of the archery season (Sept. 14) and continues through rifle and muzzleloader seasons, and ends Tuesday, Dec. 31. All deer one year or older harvested during the city deer hunt are required to be sampled for chronic wasting disease.
Minnesota DNR reminds deer hunters of changes in the northeast Read More »
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