March 19, 2025

House bill would make giant beaver Minnesota’s state fossil

Featured, Home Page News, Minnesota, National News, Nature Page & Night Sky, News / Mike Cook / Session Daily

Milk and blueberry muffins, honeycrisp apples, “Grace,” ice hockey, L’etoile du Nord, and “Hail! Minnesota.”
Each is among 19 state symbols in the Land of 10,000 Lakes. A 200-pound creature that inhabited some of those waters could up the symbol total to 20. Sponsored by Rep. Andrew Myers, R-Tonka Bay, H.F. 791 would designate Castoroides ohioensis, better known as the giant beaver, as the official state fossil.

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Michigan Fishing Report – March 19, 2025

Fishing, Fishing Reports, Fishing Reports, Michigan, Uncategorized / Michigan DNR

Pier fishing here was reported to have improved this past week with decent fishing for coho salmon and steelhead.

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Spider Lake’s watery web hosts plenty of panfish, largemouths in Minnesota’s Hubbard County

Lake Profile, Lake Profile, Minnesota / Glen Schmitt

The somewhat long path to the public access on Hubbard County’s Spider Lake can be an interesting jaunt. It’s basically a one-way road, just wide enough for a single vehicle, which means if you meet someone going in or out, one of you is going to have to decide who will back up.

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South Dakota Fishing Report – March 19, 2025 – video

Fishing Reports, Fishing Reports, South Dakota, Videos / Site Staff

The weather over the weekend definitely limited the number of people going out, but there were plenty of people heading to the Missouri River on Monday. So how’s the fishing?

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Minnesota’s Outdoor Calendar

Calendar, Minnesota / Staff Report

A look at upcoming outdoors-related events from across Minnesota published in the March 21, 2025, edition of Outdoor News.

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Backyard and Beyond: Winter winds down

Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Nature Page & Night Sky, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin / Val Cunningham

Two different species of nuthatches might visit our feeders in winter, but how often does anyone see both at the same time? Rich Carlson caught a white-breasted (left) and a red-breasted nuthatch at his suet feeder recently. Note how much they differ in both size and coloration.

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Pro Fishing Tip of the Week: Big jigs sometimes can’t miss for walleyes

Features, Fishing, Minnesota, National Fishing / Charles “Turk” Gierke

If you’re ever in a bait shop or outdoors store and you see a product called “river jigs” and wonder why they look so big and are so heavy, trust the process.

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