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Lurking in Lake Erie: At least 145 invasive species documented at Presque Isle
PITTSBURGH — Lurking in the steel blue waters of Lake Erie and its marshes, a green mat of vegetation suffocates native plants with its fast-growing layers of tangled fiber.
Some fish swim the other way.
The more than 4 million annual visitors to Presque Isle State Park don't see the underwater battle waged against starry stonewort, an ...Read more
Best times for anglers
(Table for Sept. 8-Sept. 22)
This table lists top fishing times and days for the coming weeks. For best results, begin fishing one hour before and continue one hour after the times given. Times apply to all time zones.
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Sunday………................3:40 p.m.....………………….....................................................Read more
Dennis Anderson: Telling female and male mallards apart in September is a tough problem for hunters to duck in Minnesota
MINNEAPOLIS — The hens aren’t coming home to roost, and something’s going to have to change.
Beginning in Minnesota.
The hens in this case are mallards, specifically adult hen mallards, and their absence on the breeding grounds, including in Minnesota, the Dakotas and prairie Canada, means trouble for duck hunters and duck hunting.
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You're now allowed to bag walleyes on Mille Lacs. But can you catch them?
ISLE, Minn. — Two weeks after the state Department of Natural Resources loosened walleye regulations on Mille Lacs Lake to establish a welcomed two-fish bag limit, anglers are struggling to take advantage.
The trick is this: When the bag limit was zero, the fishing was pretty good. Now that it’s legal to catch and keep two of the fish, the ...Read more
Dennis Anderson: If everyone needs exposure to nature, why aren't some metro kids getting their share?
MINNEAPOLIS — News item: Shooting of four children, ages 11 to 13, at 1 a.m. in a stolen car raises familiar alarm in Minneapolis. Police recover 30 shell casings from what they say was a fully automatic weapon.
Nothing about the events described above should be considered normal, Thurman Tucker says. Not now or ever.
Kids who are barely in ...Read more
A pioneer in outdoor navigation turns to Minnesota for fishing smarts
MINNEAPOLIS — A Montana company that sells digital navigation apps to hunters, off-roaders and backcountry hikers has turned to Minnesota anglers to help develop apps for both trout streams and freshwater lakes.
OnX Maps, best known for its GPS-driven hunting app, acquired Twin Cities-based TroutRoutes this year at about the same time it ...Read more
Best times for anglers
(Table for Sept. 1-Sept. 15)
This table lists top fishing times and days for the coming weeks. For best results, begin fishing one hour before and continue one hour after the times given. Times apply to all time zones.
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Sunday.…....................10:55 a.m.....………………….……..............................................Read more
Dennis Anderson: Minnesota wildlife artist Bob Hautman captures the world in broad strokes
MINNEAPOLIS — The other day Bob Hautman turned on one light, then another, curious whether the change in luminescence affected the mien, or appearance, of the ducks he was painting.
This was at the farm-turned-wildlife mecca west of the Twin Cities that Hautman shares with his wife, the artist Dodie Logue, and Hautman was putting the ...Read more
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