Sun, Oct 15, 2017 - 9:54am
GRAND FORKS—Andy Schoneich isn't a duck hunter, but he loves wildlife and does the occasional woodcarving when he gets the time. Developing a passion for the old wooden decoys that duck hunters used before the days of molded plastic was a natural progression. "There's a large number of collectors of the old wooden hunting decoys," Schoneich said. "Some of these decoys have exceeded $1 million and sit in some pretty prestigious collections."
Fri, Oct 13, 2017 - 5:47pm
GRAND FORKS—Be careful out there, motorists in Grand Forks County. Critters are on the move, and you never know what's going to run across the road. The latest unusual collision of wildlife and wheels occurred about 6:30 a.m. Friday, when a motorist hit and killed a bear on Grand Forks County Road 33, about halfway between Manvel and Gilby, near the intersection of County Road 3, authorities say.
Thu, Oct 12, 2017 - 4:57pm
Wed, Oct 11, 2017 - 3:35pm
GRAND FORKS, N.D. — Bull elk aren't common near Grand Forks, but a motorist hit one Saturday night, Oct. 8., on U.S. Highway 2 west of town A game warden shot the injured animal Sunday morning in a cornfield on the north side of the highway. The collision occurred at mile marker 351 near Dave's Total RV Repair, said Blake Riewer, district game warden for the North Dakota Game and Fish Department in Grand Forks. Riewer put the animal down and issued a permit for the motorist to possess the elk.
Sun, Sep 24, 2017 - 2:49pm
September is Tree Stand Safety Awareness Month, and while September days are numbered, the importance of being safe in a tree stand doesn't end Sept. 30. If anything, tree stand safety becomes even more important as deer gun and muzzleloader seasons approach. Every fall, it seems, hunters make news for all the wrong reasons after falling out of tree stands in accidents that could have been prevented.
Sun, Sep 24, 2017 - 1:51pm
WILLIAMS, Minn.—Curt Quesnell barely has a chance to get his boat up on plane before he reaches one of his favorite Lake of the Woods fishing spots on a crisp Monday morning in late September. So much for the adage that fishing always is better on the other side of the lake. For Quesnell, this side of Lake of the Woods near Long Point has been just fine, thank you very much. It's been that way for the past month, he says.
Sun, Sep 17, 2017 - 5:49pm
Barring a drastic change in weather patterns, dry conditions will play into hunting strategies this fall for duck and goose hunters, especially those who prefer hunting over water. The regular duck and goose seasons open Saturday, Sept. 23 in North Dakota and Minnesota. The first week of North Dakota's season is open to residents only; nonresidents can hunt beginning Sept. 30.
Sun, Sep 10, 2017 - 2:32pm
Hunter Dosch knows he's fortunate to only have 10 stitches in his right index finger and some cuts on his arms and a gash on one knee. It could have been worse. ... "I had a muzzleloader blow up in my hands," Dosch said, offering a short and sweet explanation of what happened. "Too much gunpowder. I'm about 100 percent sure of that."
Fri, Sep 08, 2017 - 8:01am
DEVILS LAKE, N.D. — Henry Duray was new on the job as 22-year-old manager of Lewis and Clark State Park in northwest North Dakota when he walked into a store in Williston one day in 1976 to set up a charge account for the park. "The lady at the store wouldn't do it because she didn't think I was the manager — I was just way too young to be any kind of manager," Duray, 64, recalls. "I would need a letter from Bismarck saying who I was."
Sun, Sep 03, 2017 - 4:14pm
The past two weeks have been a blur as a combination of work and vacation took me everywhere from the Northwest Angle to the Twin Cities. On the work front, I was up at the Northwest Angle on Monday, Aug. 21, to report on an event celebrating the launch of a new border crossing system in this remote part of Minnesota that marks the northernmost point of the continental U.S.
