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March 12, 2025

Minnesota home hosts denning bear and her cubs under porch

Pulling into a residential neighborhood in Crosslake and parking outside Tim and Vanessa Greer’s home, it isn’t obvious who they are hosting. Soon it’s revealed: a sow bear and two cubs beneath the couple’s front porch.
“I don’t think we’ll be coming over to this part of the house, you know, we’ll just go in and out through the garage,” Tim Greer said.

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Federal-state partnership supports fire safety in Minnesota’s Arrowhead region

Bob and Colleen Christianson cut the fire risk to their property last summer when they cut and mulched dead and dying balsam fir trees left in the wake of a spruce budworm outbreak.
“The biggest problem I was worried about was the fire danger. And if any fire got going in here, it would burn everything. Not only that, I wanted to improve the land for wildlife,” Bob Christianson said.
Spruce budworm is native to Minnesota, where 100-plus years of fire suppression allowed dense stands of balsam fir to flourish.

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Jason Tharpe named new CEO of Delta Waterfowl

Delta Waterfowl’s board of directors and Dr. Scott Petrie reached a mutual agreement to separate Feb. 19, ending Petrie’s nearly decade-long tenure as chief executive officer of Delta.
Petrie, a Ph.D waterfowl biologist who started his career as a Delta Waterfowl undergraduate technician at the Delta Marsh in the 1986 and 1987, returned to Delta as CEO in September 2015.

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Michigan’s annual UP Deer Camp Survey shows sightings, success rate increased in ’24

The benefits of a record mild winter on the UP deer herd during the first months of 2024 showed up during last fall’s firearms deer season, according to the DNR’s most recent UP Deer Camp Survey.
The survey is conducted annually by the Michigan DNR in collaboration with hunting camps. The survey asks hunters about their experiences during the previous hunting season.

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