Fish stocks decline in Lake Superior due to warming according to study
Regional News
-- Lake Superior has lost about 20-percent of its most abundant large fish over the last 30 years, as the average water temperature has warmed by two-and-a-half percent.
Summer, kids, fishing, it's all good and it's on Perch Lake
The St. Croix Sportsman’s Alliance will sponsor a free kids fishing contest on Saturday afternoon, June 8, at Homestead Parklands on Perch Lake, north of Willow River State Park, from 3-5:15 p.m.
RELATED CONTENTGoliath Challenge set for Saturday
The second annual Goliath Challenge, a 5K obstacle race, is Saturday, May 18, at the Badlands Snopark in Hudson to raise funds for Feed My Starving Children.
RELATED CONTENTSt. Croix parks to have open house, state parks plan free days
St. Croix County will host a County Parks Open House Day Sunday, June 2, for all park visitors.
RELATED CONTENTUPDATED(4:20 p.m.) Hotline established for individuals affected by Germann Road fire
Wisconsin News
The Department of Natural Resources has established a hotline which residents potentially impacted by the Germann Road Fire in Douglas County can call to learn about the status of their homes and property. Meanwhile firefighters continue to extinguish hotspots and shore up fire lines.
Gun Show May 17-18 in Hudson
Hudson Sports and Civic Center Ice Arena will be the site of a gun show on from 3-8 p.m. Friday, May 17, and 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, May 18.
RELATED CONTENTState's Wolf population stops growing
Outdoor News
-- Wisconsin’s wolf population has stopped growing – and it might have dropped slightly after last year’s inaugural hunting season.
Swarm season starts: bees just doing what comes naturally - Don’t Panic!
If spring-time should finally arrive, honey bee colonies start to build-up their numbers and if they run out of space in their hive, they swarm. The public should not be alarmed if they see or come across a swarm of honey bees. They are doing what honey bees do and are not remotely interested in humans. In fact before leaving their hive the bees fill up their stomachs with honey and are rather mellow; their sole intention is to find a new home to build-up a new colony.
RELATED CONTENTFrontenac park manager retires after 26 years
Area News
-- By all accounts, Harry Roberts loved his job and did it well.
UPDATE: Man shot by turkey hunter was hit in face, neck
The Stillwater, Minn. man -- an off-duty Washington County Sheriff's Department supervisor -- was struck in the face, neck and shoulder by pellets fired by a White Bear Lake, Minn., man who was hunting in the Town of Somerset early Tuesday, April 30.
RELATED CONTENTWild Side: Phenology has gone wild this spring
T.S. Elliot’s poem, The Waste Land, starts, “April is the cruelest month…stirring dull roots with spring rain.”
RELATED CONTENTDNR finds body of missing snowmobiler
Western Wisconsin News
-- Two Wisconsin wardens with the Department of Natural Resources have found the body of a snowmobiler who went missing two months ago.
Deer tested in Minnesota show no signs of CWD
Minnesota News
-- None of the more than 2,300 deer tested for chronic wasting disease in three specific areas of Minnesota have tested positive for the disease, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources reports.
'Habitat Handout Day' set for May 4 at Baldwin
BALDWIN - Property owners in Pierce and St. Croix counties interested in making their land wildlife friendly are invited to attend the annual "Habitat Handout Day" and receive free spruce trees, wildlife friendly shrubs and seed for wildlife food plots.
RELATED CONTENTNational Walleye Tour begins in Red Wing, ends at Devils Lake
Area News
-- Cabela’s inaugural National Walleye Tour Fishing Tournament will launch Friday at Bay Point Park in Red Wing.
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