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May 23, 2026

Pennsylvania Reader Stories: Hunting with dad filled with precious but fleeting memories from the mountains

I remember like it was yesterday. I was standing with a friend, when we heard a single shot on the opposite mountain, some distance away.
I said, “that was my dad!” At the time, I was 15. My friend said, “No, I think that shot came from the opposite direction,” from where my dad was hunting. But I knew better.

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Find an animal nesting near your house? Here’s what you do or don’t do

For four years, a mallard has nested behind a bush near the front door of Caitlin Deal’s home in a Minneapolis-St. Paul suburb, offering an up-close glimpse of nature for her young son and lessons for how people can coexist with wildlife.
The duck, dubbed Martha by the family, sits on her nest for about a month every spring in the tree-lined neighborhood of Eagan, Minnesota. After her eggs hatch around Mother’s Day, the birds toddle away.

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Lake trout report shows some signs of rehab in Illinois waters of Lake Michigan

DNR’s separate samplings of lake trout in the Illinois waters of Lake Michigan last spring and fall yielded very different numbers – but the same response from fisheries biologist who study the fishery.
Things could be better, though the fall spawner survey has been more bright than the spring netting.

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