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Outdoors
07/20/2008 12:00 AM
Loons are faring well in Minnesota. Minnesota's loon population is estimated at about 12,000, the most loons of any state in the Lower 48. The population is stable to slowly increasing, said Carrol Henderson, nongame wildlife program supervisor for the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. Only Alaska has more loons than Minnesota.
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07/18/2008 12:00 AM
Lake of the woods: A jig and minnow continues to produce walleyes in 32 to 34 feet of water around the Morris Point Gap up toward Long Point. The east and west sides of Garden Island also have provided steady walleye action. High winds this past weekend muddied the water, which has slowed the fishing, at times. The Silver Creek area on the Rainy River is producing walleyes in 14 to 17 feet. At the Northwest Angle, dark-colored jigs and minnows are the ticket for walleyes and northern pike around Oak Island.
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07/18/2008 12:00 AM
With climate change increasingly threatening the survival of plants and animals, scientists say it may become necessary to move some species to save them.
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07/18/2008 12:00 AM
It’s not exactly Tony serenading Maria in “West Side Story,” but for all their homeliness toadfish also sing to attract mates.
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07/13/2008 12:00 AM
Fishing opportunities on smaller lakes within the Red Lake Indian Reservation date back to the 1930s, but the program really took off in 1987 when the band launched the Red Lake Department of Natural Resources.
Lower Red Lake and the 60,000 acres of Upper Red Lake within reservation boundaries, along with their tributaries, aren’t open to nonband members.
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07/13/2008 12:00 AM
Members of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa have harvested 373,000 pounds of walleyes on Lower Red Lake and tribal waters of Upper Red Lake since Dec. 1, records show. Commercial fishing is restricted to hook-and-line, and the tribe’s annual quota is 820,000 pounds
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07/13/2008 12:00 AM
A graduate student studying fishers in northeastern North Dakota says he and his research partners are capturing more images of the animals on trail cameras than he would have expected.
Members of the weasel family, fishers traditionally inhabit forested areas such as those common in northern Minnesota. But for some reason, the fur-bearers are becoming more prevalent in eastern North Dakota, even in areas with only marginal forest habitat.
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07/13/2008 12:00 AM
BISMARCK — Wildlife officials who have worked for years to keep unwanted carp from migrating into one of the country’s finest walleye lakes hope to finally solve the problem this summer.
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07/13/2008 12:00 AM
BISMARCK — Professional anglers who might be more familiar with Devils Lake walleye than anyone say carp would be a significant threat to the fishery if they ever found their way into its waters.
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07/13/2008 12:00 AM
Heavy June rains that washed out nesting sites have hampered a research project to learn why Franklin’s gulls are abandoning their nesting colonies at Agassiz National Wildlife Refuge in northwestern Minnesota.
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07/13/2008 12:00 AM
BISMARCK — With wind energy towers rising around the state, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials worry about rare whooping cranes that pass through on their migration route betweem Canada and Texas.
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07/13/2008 12:00 AM
Report your big fish tales to Brad Dokken at bdokken@gfherald.com, by phone at 780-1148 or toll-free (800) 477-6572 ext. 148, or mail to Brad Dokken, c/o The Grand Forks Herald, 375 Second Ave. N., Box 6008, Grand Forks ND 58206-6008. Please include the angler’s town of residence and whether the fish was kept or released.
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07/13/2008 12:00 AM
The Department of Natural Resources has approved the North Star ATV Club in northwestern Minnesota for its Volunteer Trail Ambassador Program.
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Small lakes in Red Lake Indian Reservation provide high-quality fishing opportunities
Brad Dokken
REDBY, Minn. — The fish twisting and turning some 20 feet below the boat clearly was a lake trout, and it wasn’t the least bit interested in our company on this sunny Tuesday morning in late June.
“I hope they’re biting,” Al Pemberton had said less than half an hour earlier as he launched his 16-foot Lund off a sandy beach at the base of a grassy hill leading to the lake.
They were.
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