WEST FARGO

Open Season: Subtle start to dog training

My dog’s breeder, Jeff Jalbert of Top Shelf Kennels in Horace, gave me a sideways glance as he set down his Busch Light on the polished wooden bar that wrapped along the south wing of Stiklestad Lodge near Fort Ransom, N.D. “You going to test your boy this fall?” he asked.

By Tyler Shoberg , June 27, 2012

Flight Lines: Little discoveries on the North Dakota prairie

“I doubt it.” That was my answer to the question, “Do you think these caterpillars are eating lichens?”

By Keith Corliss , June 20, 2012

True dog days of summer

NAVHDA test ideal place to see canines in top form

By Tyler Shoberg , June 13, 2012

Flight Lines: Elusive flycatcher found near West Fargo

Last Sunday I asked for a copy of North Dakota’s most recent record of Acadian flycatcher (Empidonax virescens); it soon arrived via email. In the dispassionate language of scientific data, the entry simply stated, “5/29/1973 (1 called) Montpelier (LCH).” Translated it means someone with the initials LCH had heard this species calling in Montpelier in late May, 1973. Presumably “LCH” did not even see the bird. Prior to this there is only one other record from the state, a specimen recovered in Grafton in 1927 which now purportedly resides within a collection at the University of North Dakota. These are facts that make what occurred Sunday all the more significant.

By Keith Corliss , June 06, 2012

Open Season: Follow the catfish food chain

Fishing is as simple or complicated as a person makes it. In its most basic form, willing a creature to ingest a dangling bait can mean nothing more than the proverbial hook, line and sinker.

By Tyler Shoberg , May 16, 2012

Harwood’s Staples wins Best of Show at Junior Duck Stamp Contest

The graceful canvasback duck, which inhabits the prairie wetlands of North Dakota, was the subject in a winning artwork that was named Best of Show in the North Dakota Junior Duck Stamp Contest, sponsored by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

By Jackie Jacobson , May 16, 2012

BACK WITH A BANG

The Shooting Park reopens in Horace; new owners focus on tradition, safety, fun

By Tyler Shoberg , April 25, 2012

Flight Lines: West Fargoan adds species to county bird list

A 2006 poll conducted by the US Fish and Wildlife Service showed North Dakotans among the least likely Americans to be bird watchers on a per capita basis at 14 percent. Only Hawaiians polled lower among the 50 states. I’ve got my own theories as to why this might be the case but let’s put that aside for another time and assume the data are reasonably accurate.

By Keith Corliss , April 25, 2012

Open Season: Good fish come to those who work

A slab of sapphire ice a foot-and-a-half thick and the size of a dinner table jutted forth from Red Lake like the monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey.

By Tyler Shoberg , February 15, 2012

Flight Lines: Seeing more clearly with young eyes

Every now and then, we all need reminding as to just what it was that led us here in the first place, and why we love what we do.

By Keith Corliss , January 18, 2012

Flight Lines: Are your pets at risk with peregrins?

If one is to believe the premise of a recent letter-to-the-editor in the Forum, there is a direct threat to the lives of pets everywhere in the metro area and it’s coming from the sky. Even more alarming, your babies are at risk. Or so the letter claimed.

By Keith Corliss , April 27, 2011

Open Season: I really should be ice fishing

There is no excuse for my complete lack of motivation this winter. Time to man up, grab the portable shack and head out to my favorite lake.

By Tyler Shoberg , January 26, 2011

Flight Lines: Hillsboro woman has a passion for birds

Rosalie Anderson isn’t one to let setbacks quash her desire for more in life.

By Keith Corliss , January 19, 2011

Open Season: Dilly of a pickle – pike, that is

Snot rockets, slough sharks, slimers. Whatever you call them, the reaction while fishing is the same: “Dangit, another northern.”

By Tyler Shoberg , January 12, 2011

Flight Lines: Local bird watchers raise bar with highest-ever count

Now what, Disneyland? It took until the 74th year of the Fargo-Moorhead Christmas Bird Count (CBC), but area observers finally topped the 50-species mark last Saturday.

By Keith Corliss , December 22, 2010