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    One of the Cloquet Middle School seventh-grade life science classes releases their monarch butterflies after raising them from the larva stage. Jamie Lund / Forum News Service
    Applying science to life, students release monarch butterflies into the wild
    CLOQUET, Minn. — A seventh-grade Cloquet Middle School science class laughed with glee as they sent their monarch butterflies into the...
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    October 18, 2017
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    Huge floating bog that damaged docks still on northern Minn. lake
    MERRIFIELD, Minn. -- When lakeshore owners on a northern Minnesota lake about five miles north of Brainerd woke up last Friday, they couldn’t...
    newsOctober 18, 2017 - 5:37pm
    The largest chronic wasting disease outbreak Minnesota has seen is affecting white-tailed deer in southeast Minnesota. (Dennis Anderson/Minneapolis Star Tribune/TNS)
    Minnesota to collar more than 100 wild deer with tracking devices to fine-tune its fight against CWD
    MINNEAPOLIS - Wildlife crews will swoop down in helicopters above southeastern Minnesota early next year to capture and collar more than 100...
    sportsOctober 18, 2017 - 4:00pm
    October 15, 2017
    Hardware store-grade pair of mallard decoys manufactured at the Walter Evans Decoy Factory in Wisconsin. (Andy Schoneich collection)
    Book brings decoy history to life
    GRAND FORKS—Andy Schoneich isn't a duck hunter, but he loves wildlife and does the occasional woodcarving when he gets the time. Developing...
    sportsOctober 15, 2017 - 9:54am
    A black Lab keeps an eye on the North Dakota sky during a recent hunt. Submitted photo
    Sam Cook: On a Dakota morning, the waiting is good
    I received the text early one morning this past week. It came from a buddy of mine who was out west — North Dakota — hunting. His...
    newsOctober 15, 2017 - 6:00am
    October 13, 2017
    Three deer are spotted near the intersection of Yellowhead Road Southwest and Lassie Lane Southwest in October 2016 by BSU associate professor of biology Brian Hiller and his students. (Pioneer file photo)
    BSU to survey deer population in Bemidji starting next week
    BEMIDJI -- A BSU professor and his students will once again conduct evening spotlight surveys of the deer population within certain areas of...
    newsOctober 13, 2017 - 7:37pm
    October 12, 2017
    Walleye action gathers steam and fall colors update
    Lake of the Woods
    sportsOctober 12, 2017 - 4:57pm
    October 11, 2017
    The Duluth Police Department provided this trail cam image of two suspects in the theft of three deer stands in Duluth.
    Thieves caught on trail cameras stealing deer stands in Minnesota
    The Duluth Police Department on Tuesday asked for the public's help in identifying at least two individuals allegedly involved in the theft of...
    newsOctober 11, 2017 - 4:57pm
    October 9, 2017
    Patti Stangel, founder and owner of Wildlife Rehabilitation and Release, rural Colfax, releases a bald eagle Sunday, Oct. 8, 2017 near Elk Mound. The bird was returned to Stangel after treatment at The Raptor Center at the University of Minnesota. Photo by Eau Claire Leader-Telegram
    Releasing eagles helps this animal caregiver remember American principles
    COLFAX, Wis. — Almost a week after the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history and other similar instances in the past several...
    newsOctober 9, 2017 - 11:39am
    October 8, 2017
    Meadow Kouffeld. Sam Cook / Forum News Service
    Woman to woman: Meadow Kouffeld on women in hunting
    GRAND RAPIDS, Minn. — Meadow Kouffeld remembers when she discovered she wanted to be a wildlife biologist. "I found out there was such...
    newsOctober 8, 2017 - 8:18am
    A yellow Lab retrieves a rooster pheasant during a western Minnesota pheasant hunt. Forum News Service file photo
    Challenging pheasant season expected in Minnesota, ND, SD
    DULUTH, Minn. — Minnesota. Down. South Dakota. Down. North Dakota. Down. Iowa. Down. The numbers don't lie. By the numbers, hunters are...
    newsOctober 8, 2017 - 8:04am
    BRAD DOKKEN COLUMN: Watch out for deer on the roads this fall
    GRAND FORKS — A news release from State Farm insurance hit my inbox earlier this week, and it offered a timely reminder for all of us who...
    newsOctober 8, 2017 - 7:50am
    September 27, 2017
    UPDATED: Missing hunter found in Chippewa National Forest
    REMER -- A hunter missing for four days was found alive in a swamp in the Chippewa National Forest on Tuesday. The Cass County Sheriff’s Office on Monday afternoon received a report of a missing hunter in rural Boy Lake Township north of Remer, Minn., according to a release. The...
    news/regionSeptember 27, 2017 - 6:16pm
    September 25, 2017
    Gray wolf. Gary Kramer / USFWS
    With higher deer population, Minn. wolf numbers jump 25 percent
    DULUTH — Minnesota's wolf population jumped 25 percent in the past year, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources said Monday, Sept....
    newsSeptember 25, 2017 - 5:34pm
    September 24, 2017
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    Sam Cook: Damp weather, lots of foliage slow grouse opener
    This is not how opening day of grouse season is supposed to be. It isn't supposed to be dark and dreary, still dripping from overnight rain....
    sportsSeptember 24, 2017 - 6:26pm
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