This afternoon took an interesting twist when I received a call from Bruce Nelson of East Grand Forks about an injured bald eagle that had been spotted in a neighborhood on Ninth Street Southeast. He was wondering if I knew who to call about rescuing the bird. I tried a couple of conservation officers but…
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Fooled By A Fake Crappie
I got fooled Saturday afternoon when Loren Keizer, a friend from Detroit Lakes, Minn., texted me a photo of Bruce Mosher holding a slab crappie on what appeared to be a sheet of ice. As the story went, they were fishing an unnamed lake where the ice was 1½ inches thick. Mosher, of Beltrami, Minn.,…
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Disabled Veterans To Hunt Deer Thursday And Friday At Camp Grafton
The annual deer hunt for disabled veterans is scheduled for Thursday and Friday at Camp Grafton near Devils Lake. Seven veterans have registered for this year’s hunt, the North Dakota National Guard said in a news release. The late Col. Dean Hildebrand initiated the hunt more than 20 years ago to provide a hunting opportunity…
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‘Too Many Timber Wolves’
Ron Larson of Roseau, Minn., sent me a couple of trail camera photos that I thought were worth sharing. The first shows a dandy whitetail buck that showed up on one of Larson’s trail cameras earlier this fall on his hunting land northwest of Wannaska, Minn., and the second image is a timber wolf the…
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Minnesota Deer Kill Down
It’s hardly surprising, given the anecdotal reports I heard from opening weekend, but the deer kill after the first three days of season in Minnesota was down about 19 percent from last year. Hunters had registered about 73,000 deer after the first three days, compared with 91,000 last year. Wildlife managers attributed the high winds…
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