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Even small areas of bushes in an urban landscape produces cover for a variety of organisms.
Keith Corliss / Forum Communications Co.

Holiday gift ideas for the birder in your life

Christmas shopping has never been a strong area for me. I'm not entirely sure why, it just happens to be that way. I think the hype and hustle of the...

flight lines / outdoors Wed, Dec 21, 2011 - 12:00am

Audience members listen to North Dakota Game and Fish officials speak during a public input meeting Nov. 30 in Casselton. Tyler Shoberg / West Fargo Pioneer

Poor deer, pheasant numbers 'first taste of things to come'

The message from the North Dakota Game and Fish Department to hunters is clear: do not expect a quick turnaround from this year's low deer and pheasant numbers. In fact,...

outdoors / news Wed, Dec 14, 2011 - 12:00am

Andrew Thill poses with his dog, Asic, as the author's dog, Remy sits in front of a hard day's worth of pheasants and sharptails. While upland bird numbers took a hit this year, opportunities abound in North Dakota for individuals willing to look. Tyler Shoberg / West Fargo Pioneer

Open Season: A lot to be thankful for in North Dakota outdoors

The morning chill was every bit the 17 degrees promised by my digital truck thermometer, if not less. Almost immediately upon removing the Remington 870 pump shotgun from its case,...

outdoors Wed, Dec 14, 2011 - 12:00am

One of two recently documented snowy owls found north of Fargo. The heavy barring indicates this is an immature bird. Keith Corliss / Forum Communications Co.

Flight Lines: Sharp snowy owl contrast between last two winters

We are under an invasion. Unlike Orson Welles' 1938 radio adaptation of H. G. Wells' novel, War of the Worlds, this one is real and it's coming from the north...

flight lines / outdoors Wed, Dec 07, 2011 - 12:00am

Youth Air Rifle Classes offered in January

Youth Air Rifle Classes will take place at the Mapleton Community Center during several sessions in January as part of the Outdoor Skills program offered by the NDSU/Cass County Extension...

outdoors Wed, Dec 07, 2011 - 12:00am

With the patience of millenia, trees grow, mature, die, and decay to the slow but ceaseless rhythm of nature. Keith Corliss

Nature's cadence noticeably slower as season changes

We may not hear it but it's evident among the drifts of dried and fallen leaves. It's readily apparent in the icy sheets forming and flowing along the local rivers...

outdoors Wed, Nov 23, 2011 - 8:06am

Deer carcases hang in the author's garage, awaiting to be butchered after a successful North Dakota deer opener in early November. Tyler Shoberg / West Fargo Pioneer

Open Season: While meat may be meat, venison is not just venison

In my circles, seldom do I get a "hi" this time of year. And normally a talking standard, weather now rarely is a topic-starter - unless it's how the hunting...

outdoors Wed, Nov 16, 2011 - 12:00am

N.D. Game & Fish notebook: Mountain lion No. 10 closes Zone 1 early season

Mountain lion hunting during the early season in zone 1 is closed. The 10th cat was taken Nov. 12, filling the zone's early-season quota. The late season in Zone 1,...

outdoors Wed, Nov 16, 2011 - 12:00am

Outside of wetlands with ample cover, American bitterns are rarely encountered.
Keith Corliss / West Fargo Pioneer

Outdoor oddities always pique a birder's curiosity

Just by happenstance - I call it luck - I live in the same West Fargo neighborhood as North Dakota Game and Fish Department biologist, Doug Leier. Not only have...

flight lines / outdoors Wed, Nov 09, 2011 - 12:00am

Safety first for deer opener

On Friday, North Dakota's favorite unofficial holiday begins. Firearm deer opener, with its traditional noon start, is unarguably the state's most cherished pastimes. For a couple of days, small towns...

opinion / outdoors Wed, Nov 02, 2011 - 12:00am

A summer nest of American goldfinches stands out in a maple tree once its leaves have fallen away. Keith Corliss / Forum Communications Co.

Flight Lines: Leaf drop reveals handiwork of nesting birds

Remove the leaves from trees and all manner of secrets are exposed to the world. Secrets which had been hidden for the summery months in the dappled verdant bosom of...

flight lines / outdoors Wed, Oct 26, 2011 - 12:00am

The first grouse bagged of the trip came as a surprise, bursting from behind the hunters, but it made the mistake of flying straight down the trail for an easy shot. Submitted by Erin Shoberg

Open Season: Tough to beat a Minnesota ruffed grouse hunt

As my dog and I rounded the bend, the birch-laded woods appeared to part like intricately painted cardboard props in a Shakespearian play. A stick- and leaf-strewn path popped into...

outdoors Wed, Oct 19, 2011 - 12:00am

Great horned owls are just one of many raptor species illegally targeted by some unscrupulous hunters. Keith Corliss / Forum Communications Co.

Flight Lines: Pelican colony destruction strikes a chord

Like almost every morning, last Friday found me leafing through the pages of the Forum newspaper. Separating this day from most was a story on page A7 which carried the...

flight lines / outdoors Wed, Oct 12, 2011 - 12:00am

Hunters (from left) Paul Drechsel, Jay Drechsel, David Drechsel and Kevin Drechsel converse after a morning of hunting during North Dakota's resident waterfowl opener Sept. 24-25. Tyler Shoberg / West Fargo Pioneer

Open Season: North Dakota waterfowl opener as advertised

It took more than an hour, but the first duck of North Dakota's waterfowl opener finally discovered my decoy spread. Placement of the dozen or so decoys was less than...

outdoors Wed, Oct 05, 2011 - 12:00am

The annual rendezvous at Ft. Union Trading Post attracts re-enactors from a wide area. Ft. Union has benefited from past recipient of LWCF (Land and Water Conservation Fund) dollars.

Photo courtesy US National Park Service

Making a pitch for the outdoors; lobbying on behalf of the LWCF

Lobbying. The very word makes me cringe. It connotes all manner of unseemly political chicanery from bought-and-paid-for votes on contentious issues to the unflattering influence money brings to the process...

flight lines / outdoors Wed, Sep 28, 2011 - 12:00am

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