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    August 21, 2017
    A barred owl. (Wikipedia)
    Owl attack prompts state park trail closure
    BEMIDJI -- Lake Bemidji State Park staff have temporarily closed one of their park trails after an owl attack last week. A 3-year-old girl received...
    News/localAugust 21, 2017 - 5:19pm
    August 20, 2017
    Frank and Mary Alice Hansen started Sawbill Canoe Outfitters in 1957. (Sawbill Canoe Outfitters photo)
    Passing it on: Third generation of Hansen family outfitting canoeists for adventures in the Boundary Waters
    NORTH OF TOFTE — It was a damp and drippy August morning at Sawbill Canoe Outfitters nestled among the pines at the tip of the Sawbill...
    August 20, 2017 - 6:00am
    August 13, 2017
    A group of pheasant hunters pauses to water their dogs during a western Minnesota pheasant hunt. Minnesota hunter numbers were down last year compared to 2015. (Forum News Service file photo)
    Most Minnesota small-game hunter numbers fall again
    DULUTH — The number of Minnesota small-game hunters dropped last fall compared to 2015, continuing a steady trend, the Minnesota Department...
    August 13, 2017 - 6:00am
    August 11, 2017
    Minnesota's sewage systems are aging, with state officials saying many need major upgrades in coming years. Minnesota Pollution Control Agency photo.
    Water quality remains a Minnesota problem. State launches effort to make improvements.
    ST. PAUL—The governor called for making the Minnesota River "fishable and swimmable" within 10 years. That was then-Minnesota Gov. Arne...
    NewsAugust 11, 2017 - 11:35am
    August 9, 2017
    MASTER GARDENERS: What's (achoo!) blooming?
    If you are one of the 30 percent of the population of the U.S., or 17 million adults and 6.6 million children, who suffer from seasonal allergies,...
    ColumnsAugust 9, 2017 - 5:46am
    August 6, 2017
    DNR expands Minn. deer season opportunities
    Deer hunters across most of northwest Minnesota will have more opportunities this fall, the Department of Natural Resources said this week in...
    sportsAugust 6, 2017 - 11:10am
    Troy Lindner of Lindner Media Productions is an organizer of the Fishing Careers Workshop set for Oct. 28 at Cragun's Resort in Brainerd, Minn. (Photo/Lindner Media Productions)
    Dokken: Lindner workshop to focus on fishing careers
    As one of the most recognizable people in the fishing industry, Al Lindner says the idea for a fishing careers workshop sprouted last August...
    sportsAugust 6, 2017 - 9:09am
    The iconic symbol of the wilderness
    RED WING, Minn. — Minnesota's state bird, the common loon, is considered a symbol of wilderness. Its unique call, heard day or night,...
    sportsAugust 6, 2017 - 7:25am
    August 4, 2017
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    Pup tent: On the trail with the yellow dog
    Dusk is coming on. The camp dishes are long since done. I've taken one last swim off the point to cool down. We know what comes next: The mosquito...
    sportsAugust 4, 2017 - 9:02am
    August 2, 2017
    Bemidji area to host college fishing national championship
    BEMIDJI -- Lake Bemidji and the Greater Bemidji area will serve as the host for a major national fishing championship this month. The 2017 Carhartt Bassmaster College Series presented by Bass Pro Shops will be held on Lake Bemidji and surrounding lakes from Thursday, Aug. 10, to Saturday,...
    outdoors/fishingAugust 2, 2017 - 9:05pm
    July 31, 2017
    Alpine Factory owner Jessica Parcheta helps Henry Schwartz, 12, with his form on the fast moving slope on July 6, 2017 at Alpine Factory in Arden Hills, Minn. (Glen Stubbe/Minneapolis Star Tribune/TNS)
    Minnesota skiers defy summer heat on giant indoor treadmill — complete with fake snow
    ARDEN HILLS, Minn. — On a recent balmy midsummer day, Shawn Ryan spent his lunch break downhill skiing in a warehouse in Arden Hills. "You...
    NewsJuly 31, 2017 - 12:53pm
    July 30, 2017
    A fast-moving thunderstorm forced the pilots of two floatplanes to land and return to the dock shortly after 6 a.m. Monday, July 17 at Shining Falls Lodge in eastern Manitoba. The planes were back in the air less than an hour later. Brad Dokken / Forum News Service
    Dokken: Another floatplane adventure
    Floatplanes are the workhorses of the North, providing convenient transportation to remote fishing spots and supplies to areas not accessible...
    sportsJuly 30, 2017 - 3:32pm
    Eric Tofte of Grand Marais moves along the shore of a North Shore stream as he plays a brook trout on a July morning. Tofte uses a Tenkara fly rod with no reel, which he finds perfectly suited for fishing small northern Minnesota streams. Sam Cook / Forum News Service
    Grand Marais angler uses unconventional rods to fish North Shore streams
    ON THE NORTH SHORE — The place where Eric Tofte is fishing is improbably beautiful. He's a half-mile or so up a North Shore stream, well...
    sportsJuly 30, 2017 - 12:26pm
    Dorothy Molter at her cabin in the Boundary Waters at age 77, in 1984. Ely-based musician Barb Cary Hall has spent the past six years writing a musical about Molter, who spent more than 50 years living alone and tending to tourists on Knife Lake. (Sam Cook / Forum News Service)
    Into the woods: An Ely musician has turned ‘Root Beer Lady’ Dorothy Molter’s story into a musical
    ELY, Minn. — A long-ish time ago, on an island in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, there lived a nurse who made root beer for...
    NewsJuly 30, 2017 - 6:00am
    July 28, 2017
    Riders in the 2,745-mile Tour Divide backcountry bicycle race from Alberta to New Mexico follow a gravel path in the mountains near Banff, Alberta. Duluth's Jeremy Kershaw, who took this photo, was one of seven Duluth riders who took part in the race and one of five who finished. (Jeremy Kershaw photo)
    Back from the high country: Cyclists describe trials of 2,745-mile race
    DULUTH — They are home now, their saddle sores healed, their energy reserves rebuilding. They are eating meals of actual food again. For...
    NewsJuly 28, 2017 - 6:00am
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