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December 7, 2024

Patrick Durkin: Hot tip from the grave doesn’t mesh with actual hunting trip to Idaho’s Panhandle

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A death-bed confession of sorts inspired Logan Hyrkas to organize a hunt for mountain deer in Idaho’s Panhandle during the first half of November.
The hot tip originated something like this: Hyrkas, 31, chatted up a customer in August 2016 while working at a North Dakota car dealership. Hyrkas grew up in the small town of Calumet, in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, but moved to the West because he loves hunting mule deer. As Hyrkas and the customer swapped deer hunting stories that August day, the man stunned him by sharing the GPS coordinates for his favorite hunting site in Idaho’s Panhandle.

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A downer duck season overall in Minnesota ends with a bang

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Waterfowling is not supposed to be like bowhunting, where for every successful day there are plenty that have zero action. Unfortunately, Minnesota duck hunters just finished enduring a season so filled with down days that some have permanently hung up their duck gear.
That reaction may be a bit extreme, because no one can control the vagaries of Mother Nature. While more anecdotal than scientific, my observations from spending countless days on vast Swan Lake this past spring and summer were that the upcoming season would be below average.

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Ron Schara: That .410 as a Christmas gift at age 13 never has been forgotten

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As the family gathered around the Christmas tree, the 13-year old boy noticed an elongated gift, crudely wrapped, and wondered.
As the family gathered around the Christmas tree, the 13-year old boy noticed an elongated gift, crudely wrapped, and wondered.

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Ben Moyer: In the outdoors, a good partner makes the day

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Many things make a good day outdoors. One is the right partner, whose likes and skills are fitted to that outing.
I’m fortunate to have enjoyed woods and water with different good partners on various kinds of excursions. A recent trip is a fine example of a day made better by who you share it with.

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Outdoors journalist Dave Carlson headed to Wisconsin’s conservation hall of fame

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Dave Carlson, a well-respected outdoors writer and television producer/host, will be inducted into the Wisconsin Conservation Hall of Fame (WCHF) next April.
The 77-year-old journalist from Eau Claire was the outdoors writer for the Eau Claire Leader Telegram for 10 years, and then for 34 years produced outdoor programs for television.

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Contracts awarded for project to keep invasive carp out of Great Lakes

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Efforts to build a barrier to keep invasive carp out of Lake Michigan and the Great Lakes are one step closer to reality.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced Dec. 4 that it awarded the first construction contract on the $1.15 billion project at the Brandon Road Lock and Dam on the Des Plaines River in Joliet, Ill.

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