Environment
Points North: Can We Change And Reduce Deer Disease Risks?
-Last weekend Vikki announced she was giving up on feeding the birds for the winter, because she was overwhelmed by whitetails.
Wildersmith February 4
-The north woods survived January, and we are off into the month of Namebini Giizis (the “sucker moon” as the Ojibwe call it).
The Big Freeze on Lake Superior: Where and When
-Chel Anderson is a botanist and plant ecologist. She lives here in Cook County and joins us periodically to talk about phenology or what’s going on in the woods right now.
Points North: Will Pheasant Hunting Drown In An Ethanol Sea?
-Two recent actions by Congress and the administration are very likely to result in far fewer pheasants in Minnesota and across the Midwest.
Wildersmith January 28
-The romance and adventure of life in the wilderness was enriched last weekend with some big-time cold.
Redpolls and other winter songbird survivors
-Chel Anderson is a botanist and plant ecologist. She lives here in Cook County and joins us periodically to talk about phenology or what’s going on in the woods right now.
Points North: Researcher Struggles To Fund Ruffed Grouse Research
-Rocky Gutierrez likes to point out an irony of Minnesota game bird management. The state has two hunting stamps dedicated to specific birds—the ring-necked pheasant and the wild turkey.
Small, white and feisty least weasels
-Chel Anderson is a botanist and plant ecologist. She lives here in Cook County and joins us periodically to talk about phenology or what’s going on in the woods right now. Welcome, Chel.
Points North: From Moose to Mussels, Landwehr Has Work To Do
-Two ardent pheasant hunters told me about a post-Christmas hunt in western Minnesota cattail marshes during a hallway break at the 2011 DNR Roundtable held last week.
Wildersmith January 14
-Winter has set down with the usual January cold, and has offered up a couple days of meager snow accumulations since we last met on the radio and/or web.