Outdoors

The 110th annual Beltrami County Fair is just around the corner, starting July 30 and running through Aug. 3. The area Master Gardeners with help from the local Garden Club and others interested in area horticulture are again busy planning, cleaning and preparing the area for your entries. The...

Some people still call a favorite little raptor of mine a "sparrow hawk." And for many years, I did as well. And though to the untrained eye she appears to be every bit a hawk that shares traits common to the group, the pint-sized bird-of-prey is not a hawk at all. In fact, the...

Mentha, also known as mint, from the Greek word mintha, is a genus of plants in the family Lamiaceae. Mints are aromatic, almost always perennial, rarely annual, herbs. They have wide-spreading underground and over-ground stolons and erect, square stems. Leaf colors range from...

BEMIDJI -- The city of Bemidji is now accepting permit applications to participate in two special white-tailed deer archery hunts within the city. Both hunts will follow the regular Minnesota deer archery season, which runs Sept. 13 through Dec. 31. The Bemidji Regional Airport...

Ditches, many hay fields and untended fields are bright with oxeye daisies and bright orange and yellow hawkweed flowers. Indeed, it is a pretty sight but there is more to it. Both of these are extremely invasive and they will soon be joined by lovely lavender spotted knapweed....

During my summers conducting wildlife research across the Missouri Coteau of North Dakota, not many creatures moved me more than the upland sandpiper; that "shorebird of the prairie," that delicate avian friend of mine with the somewhat melancholy whistle, a song so gently delivered,...

Gardeners use lots of power equipment to help them with their work. A quick look around the garage or tool shed reveals tillers, leaf blowers, mowers, string trimmers, chain saws, pressure washers and more. In the past, you just went down to the gas station and filled a can, put...

BEMIDJI -- The Greater Minnesota Regional Parks and Trails Commission will host a district planning meeting from 5:30 to 8 p.m. June 17 at Bemidji City Hall, 317 Fourth St.