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May 3, 2025

Steve Sarley: Here’s to hoping the Chicago Bears drafted a good hunter, angler (and football player)

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As I am writing this, I am also thinking about who my beloved Chicago Bears are going to draft this year, who is going to help propel them to their next Super Bowl appearance.
That’s right, I said it. We Bear fans are probably the most delusional of all Chicago sports fans. Every year I have the belief that my Monsters of the Midway are playoff bound – nothing is going to stop us. By the end of the season, I scratch my head and wonder what went wrong.

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Steve McComas: Spring signals nature’s call to reproduce

Featured, Home Page News, Minnesota, Nature Page & Night Sky /

I started my 2025 lake detective investigations (actually, curlyleaf pondweed surveys) shortly after ice-out in Minnesota. This spring, I was again struck by the flurry of activity produced by a wide variety of organisms. The primary culprit of this activity is the mating-season frenzy.
Here are some of the sights and sounds that I observed in April.

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Penn State study shows strange, pale ghost pipe plant is in demand

Featured, Home Page News, National News, Nature Page & Night Sky, News, Pennsylvania /

Despite a long history of traditional medicinal use in the United States, the collection, consumption and efficacy of the peculiar forest plant aptly named ghost pipe remains a mystery.
Now, with social media and the internet driving a resurgence in the harvest and economic trade of the parasitic species – which appears strangely white because it is devoid of chlorophyl – a research team from Penn State has taken the first step toward documenting its new status.

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What to know about hunting the many U.S. military bases open to the public

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The federal government manages millions of acres throughout the U.S., much of it open to public hunting.
You are probably familiar with hunting opportunities on national wildlife refuges, Bureau of Land Management lands, and national forests. But did you know that many military bases also are open to public hunting? With the proper permits, you may hunt turkeys at Fort Knox, deer at West Point, and even exotic aoudad and oryx at Fort Bliss.

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