With a little bit of diligence your poinsettia can again become the favorite holiday plant next year, says Hubbard County Master Gardener Sally Shearer. (Adobe Stock)

Outdoors Jan 8th 2020 - 3pm

How to save your holiday poinsettias

Tube feeders suspended on hooks or trees are used most often by chickadees, finches and other small birds. They also keep seeds from being scattered on the ground. Having feeders enhances winter bird watching. Enterprise file photo.

Outdoors Dec 30th 2019 - 3pm

Tips for feeding winter birds

Grooming Nordic ski trails at Pickerel Lake. (Submitted photo)

Northland Outdoors Jan 24th 2021 - 10am

Keep the peace outdoors, don't walk on the ski trails

Fat tire bicyclists ride the trails Tuesday afternoon at Prairie Woods Environmental Learning Center in Spicer.

Erica Dischino / West Central Tribune

Northland Outdoors Jan 24th 2021 - 9am

Fat tire bikes a hot item for mild winter

Deer watch a photographer before deciding their next move. The Minnesota DNR is reassessing how it measures winter's impact on deer, focusing on multiple factors and not just the standard winter severity index. ( Steve Kuchera / file / News Tribune)

Northland Outdoors Jan 23rd 2021 - 2pm

Minnesota DNR revising index of severe winter for whitetail deer

Ero Wallin out for a practice run on the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon trail Friday, Jan. 15, in Two Harbors. (Tyler Schank / tschank@duluthnews.com)

Northland Outdoors Jan 23rd 2021 - 9am

High school senior's lifelong passion leads into the John Beargrease Marathon

UND junior Cailey Isaacson (left) and UND graduate student Mason Ryckman with a quadcopter drone they used to observe duck behavior as part of a research project in central North Dakota to determine the effectiveness of using drones to survey ducks. Ducks Unlimited also is a partner in the project. (Photo courtesy of Susan Felege, UND)

Northland Outdoors Jan 23rd 2021 - 8am

Duck count studies numbers and behavior with drones flying above them

Mary Manning’s dog team pulls her and fellow conservation officer Tom Wahlstrom across Daniels Lake in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness on a tandem sled earlier this month. Manning is the only Minnesota conservation officer who patrols by dog team. (Steve Kuchera / skuchera@duluthnews.com)

Northland Outdoors Jan 22nd 2021 - 7pm

DNR conservation officer patrols Boundary Waters on dog sled

Kim Hasnon lays on the ice throwing corn to a swan she named Angel to try to get the swan to eat something so the bird does not starve out on the ice. (RosaLin Alcoser/Focus)

Northland Outdoors Jan 21st 2021 - 6pm

Woman out to save swan trapped on ice in Otter Tail County

Northland Outdoors Jan 21st 2021 - 10am

Northland Outdoors Forecast: A chilly weekend with a chance for snow

John Alexander Kay (left) and John Heino photograph birds at Sax-Zim Bog recently. (Steve Kuchera / skuchera@duluthnews.com)

Northland Outdoors Jan 20th 2021 - 7pm

The boreal birds are back at a Minnesota bog, including great gray owls

The lead dogs of John Beargrease racer Erin Schouweiler’s team set the pace early in the Beargrease mid-distance race in January. (Steve Kuchera / skuchera@duluthnews.com)

Northland Outdoors Jan 20th 2021 - 2pm

Despite low snow trail conditions, Beargrease board votes to go

The Superior National Forest posted this photo to Facebook on July 20, 2020, as part of a series of photos highlighting what not to do in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. It highlights an incident on the BWCAW's West Pike Lake in which a tree was cut down. It is illegal to damage any living plant in the Boundary Waters wilderness area, or to cut live trees for firewood. Courtesy of the U.S. Forest Service

Northland Outdoors Jan 20th 2021 - 12pm

After increase in litter and damage, Boundary Waters officials step up education efforts

Lula King, 8, of East Grand Forks, gets a hand from her dad, Jeremy, after catching a 40-inch northern pike Saturday, Jan. 16, on Lake of the Woods. Sullivan King (left) and Cole King also shared in the excitement. The big pike was released after a quick photo.

Northland Outdoors Jan 20th 2021 - 10am

Watch 8-year-old Lula King reel in a 40-inch northern pike on Lake of the Woods

Ben Saarion (left) and Jon Kuznia hold up a 50-inch muskie that they teamed up to land through the ice while fishing on Lake Charley near Alexandria, MN in Douglas County. The fish grabbed hold of the transducer on the Vexilar sonar unit they were using to help catch sunfish on the morning of Jan. 16.

Northland Outdoors Jan 19th 2021 - 4pm

Giant muskie pulled through the ice from unexpected Minnesota lake in most unusual of ways

Tamarack Island Wilderness Lodge is located on one of the 14,000 islands on the Ontario portin of Lake of the Woods. (Tamarck Island Lodge photo)

Northland Outdoors Jan 18th 2021 - 7am

Ontario resorts brace for possible second summer without US guests

During the Beltrami Island State Forest Christmas Bird Count, Marshall Howe has seen atypical species that are difficult to find elsewhere, like this great gray owl.

Northland Outdoors Jan 17th 2021 - 4pm

BIRDWISE: A Christmas Bird Count memoir

Logan Hellman, 18, of Dickinson, smiles proudly with his 19-pound catch from a northern pike Monday afternoon in Dunn County. (Photo courtesy of Craig Putala)

Northland Outdoors Jan 17th 2021 - 8am

Warmer weather spurs increase in ice anglers

Nate Nordstrom plans to feature electric-assist bicycles when he opens New Spin Bicycle Ship in Rochester in March. Nordstrom will become one of a growing number of E-bike dealers across the state. (Contributed photo)

Northland Outdoors Jan 17th 2021 - 8am

Popularity of E-bikes spreading across Minnesota

North Dakota State University researcher Alec Lackmann with a large bigmouth buffalo that was part of a study showing the fish is one of the oldest-living freshwater species in the world. Lackmann's research found one bigmouth buffalo that was 112 years old and many older than 80 years. (Photo courtesty of Alec Lackmann / NDSU)

Northland Outdoors Jan 16th 2021 - 2pm

Minnesota's river restorations benefitting 'one of the most exceptional fish in the world'

The Patriot House program allows military veterans, law enforcement, first responders and their families an opportunity to fish at no cost.

Northland Outdoors Jan 15th 2021 - 10am

Fish house open for military, law, EMS on Fishhook Lake

A doe stands at attention over a turkey decoy in an open field on a spring morning in 2020. This area of predominantly open agriculture in southwestern Minnesota is in the shotgun-only zone for firearms deer season. Legislation has been introduced for a second straight year to eliminate the shotgun-only zone in Minnesota and allow the use of rifles statewide to take deer during the regular firearms season. (Eric Morken / Echo Press)

Northland Outdoors Jan 15th 2021 - 10am

After gaining some steam in 2020, legislation returns to remove shotgun-only zone for Minnesota deer hunters

The Minnesota DNR reminds state residents that, after federal wolf protections ended Monday, exisiting state laws have kicked in that allow people to kill wolves found to be attacking livestock or pets. (Photo courtesy of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)

Northland Outdoors Jan 14th 2021 - 1pm

Wolf supporters file lawsuit to block delisting

Minnesota's newest critical habitat license plate depicts a bee and butterflies. (Photo courtesy Minnesota DNR)

Northland Outdoors Jan 14th 2021 - 12pm

Pollinator license plates finally available in Minnesota

Northland Outdoors Jan 14th 2021 - 10am

Northland Outdoors Forecast: Quieter weekend after the winter storm

Last winter Mille Lacs registered more than 3 million angler hours of pressure, a record, according to Department of Natural Resources estimates. Brian Anderson / Star Tribune / TNS

Northland Outdoors Jan 13th 2021 - 7pm

Column: Popularity of winter angling places pressure on productive walleye lakes

Mike Frisch used an ice jigging rod to land this winter walleye. A jigging approach utilizing the right rod can put more winter fish on the ice. (Contributed photo)

Northland Outdoors Jan 13th 2021 - 2pm

Mike Frisch: Rods have come a long way to help put more fish on the ice

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