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    July 23, 2017
    Jake Boyce gathers up Mike and Katelynn Buchanan over a spot near a tall cliff on Wednesday, July 19, 2017, so they can get a look at the remains of the shipwreck Madeira, a schooner-barge that sank near the shore just north of Split Rock Lighthouse in 1905. Bob King / Forum News Service
    North Shore tour offers kayakers a glimpse of Split Rock shoreline
    Mike Buchanan had spent 22 years in the U.S. Coast Guard, including a stint at the Coast Guard's Duluth station in the 1990s. But he was about...
    NewsJuly 23, 2017 - 6:00am
    Elizabeth Vaughn, center, leads a sunset kayak tour past the aerial lift bridge on Saturday, July 8, 2017, on Superior Bay in Duluth, Minn. Vaughn works for The Duluth Experience. The Duluth Experience leads a variety of Kayak tours. Mike Krebs / Forum News Service
    A night on the town -- and on the water
    It was a warm July evening, and the Duluth-Superior harbor was a happening place. Pleasure boats buzzed about. Cars hummed across the Aerial...
    NewsJuly 23, 2017 - 6:00am
    Jake Boyce (foreground), one of Day Tripper's founders, paddles on Lake Superior with Mike and Katelynn Buchanan of North Vernon, Ind., beneath the rock cliff dominated by Split Rock Lighthouse on the morning of July 19, 2017. Bob King / Forum News Service
    Sharing Duluth's outdoor adventures: Tour companies offer visitors guided experiences on trails and on the water
    On Wednesday morning, Mike Buchanan and his daughter, Katelynn, 15, found themselves in a situation they'd never experienced before. The pair...
    NewsJuly 23, 2017 - 6:00am
    July 20, 2017
    Rob Plath of Barnesville, Minn., had his boat seriously damaged when it was hit by another boat on Little McDonald Lake on Wednesday, July 19, 2017. (Contributed photo)
    McFeely: In near-miracle, everybody walks away from Minnesota broadside boat crash
    Rob Plath of Barnesville, Minn., spent most of his 34 years driving dirt bikes, demolition derby cars and stock cars for fun. He gave up those...
    NewsJuly 20, 2017 - 7:26pm
    July 19, 2017
    Nilson's yard chosen as Yard of the Month
    The Three Rivers Garden Club has chosen Susan and Michael Nilson's yard located at 4804 2nd Street East in West Fargo for the July Yard of the...
    NewsJuly 19, 2017 - 5:13am
    July 16, 2017
    A North Dakota Game and Fish Department employee removes vegetation and drains water after working on the James River near Jamestown, N.D. (North Dakota Game and Fish Department photo)
    Q & A: Aquatic nuisance species remain relatively scarce in N.D. waters
    JAMESTOWN, N.D. — Jessica Howell is aquatic nuisance species coordinator for the North Dakota Game and Fish Department. Howell has a master's...
    sportsJuly 16, 2017 - 9:48am
    July 9, 2017
    After fishing his way downstream on Wisconsin's Brule River, Duluth's David Zentner paddles back upstream. Zentner, a fly-fisher, often fishes the Brule for trout.
    Hallowed 'Hex' hatch holds deeper meaning for some trout anglers
    Among fly fishers, the words are spoken with a kind of reverence. "The Hex hatch." Duluth fly-fisher Dave Zentner, 80, has been chasing the hatch...
    NewsJuly 9, 2017 - 9:00am
    July 7, 2017
    Sam Cook, outdoors reporter
    At the river, in the dark, carrying on -- barely
    Deep dusk had settled over the valley of Wisconsin's Brule River. Phyllis and I had put our aging Old Town Tripper canoe in the river 10 miles...
    sportsJuly 7, 2017 - 11:09am
    July 5, 2017
    Great blue herons are unmistakably large wading birds with S-shaped necks, white-topped heads, and robust, loon-like bills. Keith Corliss
    Flight Lines: The water giveth and it taketh away
    With a spare moment last week I decided to check on the only great blue heron nesting area that I am aware of in Cass County. A handful of miles...
    outdoors/flight linesJuly 5, 2017 - 5:37am
    July 1, 2017
    A pair of redbellied snakes were among the first specimens caught, weighed, measured and then released by Katie Leuenberger of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources during the Swedes Forest bioblitz on June 17. This the male of the pair; the female carried eggs. Tom Cherveny / Forum News Service
    Odd-named creatures thrive in amazing Minnesota landscape
    SWEDES FOREST, Minn. — Everyone came looking to meet up with some odd-named characters, and found them. It's the five-lined skink, aka...
    NewsJuly 1, 2017 - 10:19am
    June 29, 2017
    Up close shot using a Go-Pro camera of a 600-lb Mako shark caught by Tom Barta off the coast of Santa Catalina Island, Calif., on June 15, 2017. (Courtesy of World Class Shark Fishing)play button
    Fishing for sharks off California coast experience of a lifetime
    OFF SANTA CATALINA ISLAND, Calif. — I am not a fisherman. So what the heck was I doing on a 30-foot fishing boat 30 miles from the California...
    sportsJune 29, 2017 - 7:15pm
    Debby Hunter, left, who is battling cancer, is hiking through the Sheyenne National Grasslands with her family this week. Chris Flynn / The Forumplay button
    Creating ‘special memories’: Family reunites in ND to hike with ailing sister
    KINDRED, N.D – Allison Powell slings the heavy backpack over her shoulder and calls out to the other hikers in her party, “Should we get...
    June 29, 2017 - 7:12pm
    Gary Gilbert, 55, of Becker, Minn., hoists a 59 1/2-inch muskie he found floating dead on Lake Mille Lacs June 17, 2017. Had the fish been caught alive, it likely would have set the state record for catch-and-release muskies, which are measured by length. The current record is 56 7/8 inches, set in 2016 on Pelican Lake in Otter Tail County. (Courtesy of Gary Gilbert)
    Monster muskie found floating would have broken MN state record had it been caught alive
    As Gary Gilbert began lifting the thing out of the water, he couldn't believe its size. "It just kept coming and coming," said Gilbert. Gilbert...
    NewsJune 29, 2017 - 4:24pm
    Adult zebra mussels, such as this specimen attached to a dock removed from the Red River last December in Wahpeton, N.D., remain in relatively low abundance along the river, the Game and Fish Department says. (North Dakota Game and Fish Department photo)
    ND continues sampling for larval zebra mussels in Red River
    GRAND FORKS, N.D. — Water samples from initial testing this spring haven't been processed, but zebra mussels in the Red River remain at...
    NewsJune 29, 2017 - 12:07pm
    A canoe-country angler fishes the shoreline of a small lake in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. File photo / Forum News Service
    IRS shuts down Ely's longest-running canoe outfitter business
    ELY, Minn. — Ely's oldest operating canoe-outfitting business has been shut down by the Internal Revenue Service for nonpayment of taxes,...
    NewsJune 29, 2017 - 8:55am
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