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    June 4, 2017
    t06.04.2017 Mike Krebs 060417.O.DNT.CHALSTROMc Sue Chalstrom retired from Chalstrom's Bait and Tackle on Jan. 1, 2017. She worked at the shop on and off since June 1981.
    Minnow matriarch: For 36 years, Sue Chalstrom always kept her fishing customers happy
    DULUTH, Minn. — Those early days owning a bait shop were touch-and-go for Sue Chalstrom. She and her husband, John, had just bought their...
    sportsJune 4, 2017 - 3:15pm
    Brad Dokken
    Brad Dokken: Dayton signs outdoors legislation
    Muzzleloader hunters in Minnesota will be able to use magnifying scopes on their guns, blaze pink will be allowed for hunters in the field, and...
    sportsJune 4, 2017 - 2:13pm
    June 2, 2017
    A view of Lake Superior from the Aerial Lift Bridge in Duluth, Minn., on Tuesday, May 23, 2017. Steve Wagner / Forum News Service
    Lake Superior water level on the rise
    DULUTH, Minn. — Lake Superior rose an inch more than it usually does in May, according to the monthly report released Friday, June 2, by the...
    NewsJune 2, 2017 - 3:24pm
    May 30, 2017
    Suzanne Keithley-Myers talks about a meat allergy she developed as a result of a tick bite. Keithley-Myers was diagnosed with an allergy is called alpha-gal after a tick bite. People that have alpha-gal allergies are allergic to carbohydrates that are found in red meat. Clint Austin / Forum News Service
    Mammal malady: Tick bite blamed for allergy to beef, pork, venison
    DULUTH, Minn. — It was last June, and Suzanne Keithley-Myers was driving back to her family's Duluth Township home after mushroom hunting...
    NewsMay 30, 2017 - 7:10am
    May 28, 2017
    Illustration by Mike Jacobs
    Always in Season: The sora surprises again and again
    The sora is a surprising bird. Here is what The American Museum of Natural History, in "Birds of North America," has to say about the bird: "Despite...
    sportsMay 28, 2017 - 3:31pm
    Three sutures close the cut where a radiotransmitter tag was installed in a channel catfish on the Red River in Grand Forks. (Photo/ Brad Dokken, Grand Forks Herald)play button
    Researchers wire up Grand Forks catfish
    GRAND FORKS — Mark Pegg needed 10 catfish from the Grand Fork stretch of the Red River. And he'd budgeted two days to catch them. Yeah,...
    sportsMay 28, 2017 - 10:36am
    May 25, 2017
    Grand Forks Central graduate Andrew Towne, seen in an earlier photo here, completed the Seven Summits late Wednesday night by climbing Mount Everest. Submitted photo.
    Grand Forks native scales Mount Everest, completes the Seven Summits
    GRAND FORKS — Andrew Towne has reached the top of the world. The 2000 Grand Forks Central graduate summited Mount Everest late Wednesday...
    sportsMay 25, 2017 - 5:43pm
    May 22, 2017
    Hundreds of anglers took advantage of beautiful weather April 1, 2015, to fish the Rainy River near Clementson, Minn. While the boat ramp was crowded, traffic wasn't too congested on the river. Brad Dokken / Forum News Service
    Outdoor fee hikes approved by Minn. lawmakers
    ST. PAUL — Minnesotans who like to hunt and fish, drive a snowmobile or all-terrain vehicle or visit a state park can expect to pay more next...
    NewsMay 22, 2017 - 10:36am
    May 21, 2017
    Always in Season: Rose-breasted grosbeaks are doubly well named
    Ahem, dear reader: The subject this week is bird breasts. To be sure, the breast is not the first part to examine when trying to identify a bird....
    sportsMay 21, 2017 - 4:41pm
    Brad Dokken
    Dokken: Pilot program to benefit Northwest Angle
    There was good news this past week for people who visit the Northwest Angle when U.S. Rep. Collin Peterson, D-Minn., announced that U.S. Customs...
    sportsMay 21, 2017 - 2:44pm
    Biologists trying to determine northeast Minnesota river's muskie population
    In addition to placing acoustic transmitters in muskies this spring, fisheries biologists are doing an assessment of the muskie population in the St. Louis River estuary. The Minnesota and Wisconsin Departments of Natural Resources are cooperating in the population assessment. The...
    NewsMay 21, 2017 - 7:35am
    May 19, 2017
    This jawbone thought to be from a sand tiger or mako shark was caught by a Grand Rapids, Minn., fisherman last weekend in the Mississippi River in northern Minnesota. Photo courtesy of Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
    Something fishy here: Shark jawbone caught in Mississippi River in northern Minnesota
    GRAND RAPIDS, Minn.—Joey Piskel and his dad, Joe, had quite a surprise when they were walleye fishing in the Mississippi River in northern...
    NewsMay 19, 2017 - 5:00pm
    May 18, 2017
    Hanging in the trees -- the hammock movement
    DULUTH — On a run through one of Duluth's woodsy trails the other day, I came upon a young man and woman sitting side-by-side in a bright orange hammock. The two were engaging in an emerging form of outdoor recreation in Duluth — hammocking. I had seen a few other hammockers...
    communityMay 18, 2017 - 11:27pm
    May 17, 2017
    Tiny piping plover tracks left in damp sand on an east coast beach will not be evident for long. Photo by Keith Corliss
    The sometimes subtle clues birds leave, including tracks
    As a young teenager I found and read a book about tracking animals. The idea that creatures leave prints, signs or some clue to their having...
    outdoors/flight linesMay 17, 2017 - 11:50am
    May 14, 2017
    Sam Cook, outdoors columnist
    Sam Cook: The early trip: Lake trout, loons, life
    QUETICO PROVINCIAL PARK, Ontario — We have moved away from the night fire now, down to the lakeshore. Half a moon and all of Jupiter reflect...
    NewsMay 14, 2017 - 7:22am
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