Masks, social distancing and speed: Snowmobiles enjoy boom
It’s becoming difficult to find a new snowmobile for sale. And the rental fleets are booked up.
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Shreds of aluminum cans alarm Lake Superior beach residents
DULUTH, Minn. — In the past few months, people who live along Duluth’s Park Point have been picking up shredded aluminum cans – by the bagful – on the neighborhood’s Lake Superior beach. The metal fragments were inadvertently deposited there last fall, when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dredged sediment from the harbor to
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Bighorn sheep herds show promise on North Dakota reservation
Hunting could begin in about five or six years, when the first rams will reach about 8 years old. Bighorn tags are highly coveted – a record 16,935 people applied for the six North Dakota licenses allocated in 2020.
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Vermont, New Hampshire see record black bear harvests
“It was a poor year for natural bear foods, and we saw a surge in hunter numbers brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic and perhaps a corresponding increase in the number of hunters spending more time in the outdoors hunting than in past years.”
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Pandemic interrupts longtime Isle Royale wolf-moose study
Since 1959, a research team has spent most of the winter observing the interplay between wolves and moose at Isle Royale National Park in Lake Superior. But this year’s mission has been scrapped to protect the scientists and support personnel from possible exposure to the virus.
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Study: Wildfires produce up to half of pollution in U.S. West
BILLINGS, Mont. — Wildfire smoke accounted for up to half of all health-damaging small particle air pollution in the western U.S. in recent years as warming temperatures fueled more destructive blazes, according to a study released Monday. Even as pollution emissions declined from other sources including vehicle exhaust and power plants, the amount from fires
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Increased outdoor recreation amid pandemic takes environmental toll
“It was like Fourth of July every day” – and land managers and advocates everywhere are taking stock of the ruin.
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Taxidermists hope to share love of hunting in their art
DUBUQUE, Iowa — Branden Post quickly but carefully cut away the skin from a deer head using a scalpel at his taxidermy studio in Dubuque. Tools of his trade filled the room set up at his house – forms in the shape of different game, tables laden with animal skulls, fish hanging from a shelf.
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Trump administration scales back wild bird protections
BILLINGS, Mont. — The Trump administration recently finalized changes that weaken the government’s enforcement powers under a century-old law protecting most American wild bird species, brushing aside warnings that billions of birds could die as a result. Federal wildlife officials have acknowledged the move could result in more deaths of birds such as those that
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