outdoors

With more than 800 people competing and no unusually hazardous winter weather conditions to contend with, this Saturday’s Poles ’N Holes Fishing Derby on Little Detroit Lake was a resounding success. “We had a great derby!” exclaimed event organizer Brent Gerber, of...

ST. PAUL – Opinions remain sharply divided about whether Minnesota should allow wolf hunts, and Tuesday night a state lawmaker also questioned whether state officials are doing a good job of managing wolves. Rep. Jason Isaacson, D-Shoreview, said the state Department of Natural...

Some people call the Moab area the most beautiful place on Earth, and even if beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, it is hard to argue the point. Look down almost any street in town and you see canyon walls, setting the scene for what is beyond. Five miles north is Arches...

If a picture is worth a thousand words, and if walls could talk, the Round Lake Deer Camp would speak millions of words every fall when about 20 hunters open the camp for the annual deer hunt. Nearly every square inch of wall space in the hunting shack is covered with years of...

Gone are the days when deer hunting automatically meant the burly men would trudge off into the woods while the women folk stayed home to do the cooking and the ironing. Today more women are strapping on the blaze orange, picking up the guns and heading out for the kill. According...

Though the trees in the lakes area started showing their fall colors a couple of weeks ago, the blazing orange, fiery reds and golden yellows are at or nearing their peak this week. “This week is our peak fall color time,” said Carrie Johnston, president of the Detroit Lakes...

It’s been 75 years since the Tamarac National Wildlife Refuge opened its gates to the public for the first time, and all staff and volunteers who have worked there through the years are invited to come celebrate this milestone as part of the annual Tamarac Fall Festival, which...

BEMIDJI, Minn. -- Noah Graham, after waking up to find his skull in the jaws of a wolf, fought off the animal and lived to tell the tale. Graham, 16, has a story to tell the rest of his life; a story about an incident that Chris Niskanen of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources...

It’s said that every amateur angler will at first “feed the fish” by losing their worms in the water before learning how to reel one in the right way. That was the idea behind the name of Rick and Shirley Umberger’s new camp for kids in rural Dent, Feed the Fish. With...