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August 21, 2025

Mike Raykovicz: From ash to ashes — making something of a sad situation

Blogs, Featured, Hunting, Nature Page & Night Sky, New York, Opinion /

I’ll freely admit there’s not much for me to do this time of year. Other than a fishing trip to Canada a week ago, the only thing I have to look forward to before preparing for archery season in October is cutting firewood.
We have a small wood stove in our family room that keeps everyone and everything toasty warm when temperatures fall into the teens or lower, but it needs fuel. That’s where the wood-cutting chore comes in. The woodlots and field edges on my friend’s farm contain large numbers of ash trees, and they are all dead.

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Know these tips for blood trailing before you call in the dogs

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Gary Huber has seen it many times. Actually, he’s heard it many times when he answers his phone and on the other end of the line is a hunter, often desperate, in need of his licensed leashed tracking dog services.
Huber’s nonprofit group, Deer Search of WNY, Inc. is a 100% volunteer organization dedicated to helping hunters recover wounded big game, deer or bear, with the use of leashed tracking dogs. He and the approximately 20 handlers that comprise his group are all licensed through New York State.

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Wave tracker buoys making Minnesota’s Lake of the Woods safer for anglers

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It was an idea that Joe Henry had thought about, and talked about, for a while. Similar to technology used in the interest of boater safety on the Great Lakes, why couldn’t users of Minnesota’s expansive Lake of the Woods have a means to track wave action from afar? he asked.
Henry, executive director for Lake of the Woods Tourism, said the effort to make it so recently became reality: a wave height buoy system that, most importantly, offers information to better ensure angler safety on the 300,000-plus-acre water.

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Mound City Council rejects lake improvement district on Minnesota’s Lake Minnetonka

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After hours of public comments, the Mound City Council denied a request for Harrisons Bay to create a lake improvement district (LID) on Lake Minnetonka.
The decision was primarily the result of the council not wanting to impose additional taxes on Harrisons Bay residents, especially those who oppose the formation of the improvement district. Despite public comments worried about the fishery’s health due to the chemical treatment, those issues weren’t a primary reason for the denial.

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Patrick Durkin: Wisconsin wildlife rehabilitator tends, patches or dispatches nature’s critically wounded

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You name the critter and Mark Naniot has probably uncorked a can, jar, cup or bottle from its head during his nearly 40-year career as owner/director of the Wild Instincts rehabilitation center in Rhinelander, Wis.
Whether it’s a skunk lapping peanut butter, a squirrel licking yogurt, a bear chomping pickles, or a raccoon vacuuming corn kernels, Naniot has spared it from an agonizing death after it went headfirst for a litterbug’s leftovers.

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Gretchen Steele: Mid-August in southern Illinois is when hoverflies and spiders rule

Featured, Illinois, Nature Page & Night Sky /

I just came in from my daylight coffee on the back porch and quick sashay through the fence row squirrel hunt, and boy howdy, can you tell it’s August in southern Illinois!
The “corn tassel bees,” as they are called in our neighborhood, are everywhere, and yeegads, the abundance of spiders and webs. (I swear every spider from the door to and through the fence row had built a web at face height) By mid-August, Illinois is at its late-summer peak – fields are thick and green, waterways are warm and inviting, and the air feels just a little heavier with the buzz of life.

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Streams of Thought: Minnesota DNR group to address land acquisitions in a world of wind easements

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State government officials in particular and a good portion of the general public will tell you that energy generated by the winds of Minnesota is a good thing.
Just how “clean” it is will be known for sure when many of us are being fondly remembered – for our cheery demeanor, our contributions to humankind during our time on Earth, and for our fantastic homemade salsa – during holidays in the far future. At present, the state DNR has assembled an internal, multi-divisional group whose mission, boiled down, is to address issues that have arisen amid the continued proliferation of easements secured in western and southwestern Minnesota by wind-generation companies.

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