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When the Romans turned the Circus Maximus into a hunting arena

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I’m one of those guys. You know, the kind who thinks about the Roman Empire on a daily basis. That’s been especially true lately because I’ve been working on a trilogy of historical fiction novels about Emperor Constantine the Great.
I opened the first novel in A.D. 281, when Constantine was 12, and to place him in the city of Rome, even though he grew up in Dacia (modern day Romania). I did this because I love Rome, and because Rome is more interesting than Dacia (at least to a novelist).

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From ages 8 to 80, volunteers team up to improve public-land hunting access in northeast Minnesota

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From June 12 to 14, the Minnesota Chapter of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers hosted a campout and stewardship event in northern Minnesota. The group stayed at the South Kawishiwi River campground and on Saturday, June 13, spent the day cleaning up hunter walking trails.
The St. Louis hunter walking trails are on the Laurentian Ranger District of the Superior National Forest. In the fall, the trails are closed to motorized vehicles so that hunters and dogs can use them unmolested.

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Fighting hybrid cattails with fire proves tough, underscoring the need for expertise

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This is not a story of a successful habitat restoration. Instead, this is a chronicle of a less-than-totally-successful operation in which, nevertheless, lessons were learned.
In the middle of Crow Wing County, Minn., land that my family has owned since the mid-1960s sits a 30-acre wetland. When I was a kid, it was a vibrant Tamarack bog with open water in which ducks and geese would land. My mom tells stories of catching largemouth bass in the pond.

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On the ground with the public employees we too often second-guess

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On August 12, 1986, during a microphone soundcheck for his weekly radio address, President Ronald Reagan said, “The nine more terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.”
The line was leaked to the press and quickly made national and international news.

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Field notes from a mesmerizing spring waterfowl spectacle

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I went on my first spring goose hunt recently, and it made quite an impression.
I’ll share those impressions below, but I must start by breaking a rule of journalism. I cannot tell you where I went or with whom I hunted. I’m not the kind of hunter who guards honey holes, but my hosts are. And since I like them and want to be invited back, I’m going to respect their wishes and tell you only that had we been hunting 140 years ago, we would have been somewhere in the Dakota Territory.

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The human factor afield: Lessons on friendship taken from this past hunting season

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Last season, my hunting group had a hiccup.
Wait, let me stop right there. I hate euphemisms. It wasn’t a “hiccup.” It was a conflict. Like many Outdoor News readers, I am involved in various crews of hunters and anglers, some of which overlap. But there’s one that’s central: a group of guys who’ve been hunting pheasants together for 15 years.

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Blood, memories, and the making of an adult deer hunter

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My watch disappearing into a pool of blood. Among the many memories of my first deer hunt, that is the most vivid. It happened 10 years ago, when I was 47. I’m what they call an “adult-onset hunter.”
As I chronicled in my recent memoir, I started hunting when I was 40 as a way to survive a brutal divorce and custody fight. My first forays into hunting were ducks, pheasants, and grouse, which are small and non-mammalian. I knew that shooting a deer would be a different story, and it was.

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Urban-rural Pheasants Forever partnership connects city and country to build tomorrow’s hunters

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When Dave Scherf took over as president of Minnesota’s Metro Area Chapter of Pheasants Forever in 2010, he and the board started planning what they thought was the best way to raise money and activate members: a banquet. They got gun manufacturers to donate firearms, they invited veterinarians to have booths in the exhibit space, they rented the Horse and Hunt Club’s Prior Lake banquet room, and they booked Ron Schara to emcee. Then only 100 people showed up.
“We lost our shirts,” Scherf said.

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Catching up with former Minnesota DNR Commissioner Bob Herbst

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Bob Herbst has more than six decades as a dedicated public servant and conservationist.
He began his career as a forester in Cambridge, Minn., rose to the level of commissioner of the Minnesota DNR, and was subsequently recruited by the Carter administration to the Department of the Interior in Washington, D.C. Along the way he also led the Izaak Walton League, Trout Unlimited, and the Lake Superior Center.

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