I used to take my two sons to southern Texas during spring break to bowhunt hogs at a high-fence ranch. (I’m not a beach guy; I’d rather hunt.) In three days of hunting, we’d average a total of about three hogs.
Why is meat from some feral hogs tainted blue? Read More »
Few days go by without media attention to global warming. Writing about global warming is actually pretty low-hanging fruit because the evidence is unambiguous: the earth is warming.
This is nothing new, at least when we recall that 21,000 years ago there was a mile-thick glacier covering parts of the Upper Midwest, one of more than 20 such glacial advances in the past 2 million years.
All glacial retreats occurred because of global warming. However, the new part to the current warming trend is that climate (not weather) scientists think the warming is more rapid than in the past, and that there’s a strong likelihood humans have something to do with it.
Things are heating up below Minnesota’s waves, too; what will it mean for fisheries? Read More »
Although my professional career has involved figuring out how populations and species are evolutionarily related to one another, I’d never stopped to think about perch and walleyes – other than the countless times I’ve discussed with someone about how I love to catch perch because they taste like walleyes. After all, they’re in the same family.
But does being in the same family mean they are closely related?
The perch and the walleye: Same family, (very) distant relatives Read More »
Last winter, a friend of mine was in a northern Minnesota state forest, legally cutting down a Christmas tree. His two Drahthaars were nearby, both with tracking collars. The dogs were close by my friend, who could track them with the GPS collars; they were not running wild.
One of the dogs began to make unusual noises, and my friend assumed the dog had encountered a raccoon or skunk – which is usually bad for them.
Bob Zink: Looking at the coexistence of dogs and traps Read More »
Visiting a lake in May or June in much of the Midwest likely will bring you into contact with mayflies, although they also occur throughout the country.
We sometimes see huge swarms in spring or early summer, and occasionally they show up on radar. It’s common to find them attached to buildings or trees next to lakes following a hatch. I found a bunch of mayflies attached to my place at Minnesota’s Leech Lake in late June.
What do mayflies have in common with passenger pigeons? Read More »
No, this article is not about crossbows, walleyes in Lake Mille Lacs, or deer and wolves in northern Minnesota. It’s literally about worms in cans – of salmon, that is.
My wife and I once were eating some cod, and I noticed a white, filamentous thread that I figured was some kind of connective tissue. After eating a couple of these, I looked more closely and realized the white “threads” were nematodes, a parasitic worm.
Bob Zink: Talk about opening a can of worms… in salmon Read More »
As a Minnesotan, the name “Prince” immediately reminds me of a musical performer. However, this is not about that Prince but rather a young man named Prince who died 24,000 years ago after what was thought to have been an unfortunate encounter with a bear or cave lion.
Clues suggest ‘Prince’ was a hunter who enjoyed seafood Read More »
Darkness has fallen, and you’re about to climb down from your deer stand on a freezing November night. Suddenly out of nowhere you hear an eerie howl… close, in the direction of your truck.
Your gut tells you this is no normal coyote or wolf. You’d heard about these reintroduced “extinct” dire wolves with oversized teeth and jaws that can weigh up to 200 pounds. Twelve thousand years ago they ate horses, bison, and maybe mammoths. You wonder if this howl is one of those wolves.
Return of the extinct dire wolf? Not so fast… Read More »
A few years ago, I wrote about the effects of crossbows on deer hunting. There are several points that arise, over and over.
Does the use of crossbows result in a greater harvest of deer and damage to the population? Short answer, the science says no. Some claim that crossbow hunters get all the good bucks before the gun season. Short answer, no (look at the hunter pics in Outdoor News). Crossbows have advantages, particularly the ability to cock the bow long before any deer comes into range. But if someone thinks crossbows are guns, then I know one thing: They have never hunted with a crossbow.
Bob Zink: Crossbows are not the equivalent to hunting with a gun Read More »
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