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Ice or no ice, the fishing season opens at midnight tonight
Northland Nature: Scarlet cup fungi 
Deer hunters should smile
Photo of the weekRick Bohn of Woodworth, N.D., photographed this pintail duck April 20 while he took a break taking pictures of shaptail grouse from his blind southeast of Woodworth.
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Sage grouse numbers at record low in N.D.A record-low number of male sage grouse counted on strutting grounds in North Dakota this spring has prompted state biologists to call for no hunting season for the first time in 45 years.
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Sparrows and their allies are passing throughOld Sam Peabody has been stopping by lately. I normally see him every year about this time, including autumn. He’s a pleasant looking fellow with a fine disposition and the sweetest voice you’ve ever heard. Singing, you see, is his forte, and anyone hearing his medley won’t likely forget it. Yes, Old Sam Peabody is another of my favorite birds: the white-throated sparrow.
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Singer of wetlands sure sign of springWhere there are wetlands and cattails, there will be red-winged blackbirds. You might recall my mention of one such redwing on March 7. I spotted the bird singing from the top of an oak tree on one of the coldest mornings of the long winter. The thermometer registered 26 below zero.
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Photo of the weekSean Hall of Cloquet, Minn., photographed this ruffed grouse drumming in the snow April 12 near Floodwood, Minn. Drumming is an annual mating ritual among birds such as grouse.
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Loon monitors neededfrom the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources are looking for about two dozen volunteers to help monitor the loon population in Becker and Otter Trail counties between June 27 and July 7.
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Blinds available for prairie chicken ritualsThe public can observe the prairie chicken mating displays at the Glacial Ridge and Rydell National Wildlife Refuges near Crookston, Minn.
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Minnesota is fortunate to be home to wolvesIn 1978 a nonfiction book was published, titled “Of Wolves and Men.” The book’s author was Barry Lopez. Here’s a book that anyone with an interest in wolves should read. Lopez takes his readers on a historical journey about the tense relationship that has always existed between wolves and men.
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Sounds of spring fill the airIs spring here to stay this time? Early last week the majority of the snow melted, only to have 11 inches of very wet and heavy new snow fall again.
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ALWAYS IN SEASON: Blackbird bachelors offer spring welcomeWhen I got home Thursday from a weeklong trip to the nation’s capital, three blackbirds were sitting companionably together in a cottonwood tree near my house.
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Ready to roll
Gov. Pawlenty launches outdoor-themed art competition
Phenology
report on horse injury investigation
A Big Oops
More MAT Transit riders every day!
