Outdoors

Scott Rall Daily Globe outdoors columnist How many old Westerns start out with a rancher dynamiting the stream to divert the water away for the neighboring rancher and then needed a knight on a white horse (called a cowboy) to come and save the day? There must have been at least...

Scott Rall Daily Globe outdoors collumnist It has been quite a pheasant season this year. When the roadside counts came out in mid-August they showed a pretty big increase in pheasant numbers. The numbers in this situation are kind of misleading for many hunters. They stated that...

Scott Rall Daily Globe outdoors columnist During an episode of an outdoor show called “Due North Outdoors” filmed in 2010 there was a shot of me typing this column. I am no better typist today than I was five years ago when this event happened. They had a screen shot on...

Scott Rall Daily Globe outdoors columnist Tomorrow is a big day if you chase white tail deer. The archery season started Sept. 19 and runs through Dec. 31. The firearms season in our area starts tomorrow and runs through Nov. 15. There is then a lull, and the deer hunters who...

Scott Rall Daily Globe outdoors columnist It’s not often that you get to write a column about your three dogs. For many hunters this never happens. I think that 95 percent of all hunters only own one dog at a time. It happens more often for me because I have never had only...

Scott Rall Daily Globe outdoors columnist A few weeks back I made my annual trip to the Minnesota Governors Pheasant Hunting Opener. This is the same event that was in Nobles County last year. Many of the activities that are offered are the same as the year before. There is...

Scott Rall Daily Globe outdoors columnist This column is is part three of what has to take place when a parcel of land is to be acquired by a conservation organization and changed from its current use to that of wildlife habit creation/protection. We covered in the past two...

Last week I started a 3-part series about how a public land acquisition takes place. We covered the finding of the parcel and the willing land owner requirements. We covered the appraised value rules and prior approval by any of our long-term land manager partners. Once we get past...

WASHINGTON — For Minnesotans, hunting, fishing, and exploring the outdoors aren’t just hobbies — they are a way of life ingrained in our state’s heritage and culture. And with the pheasant opener just around the corner, Minnesotans are preparing to take part in a tradition...

Scott Rall Daily Globe outdoors columnist I have been and always will be a strong proponent of public lands. I feel public lands benefit all citizens of the nation, and if it were not for public lands there would not be a national wildlife refuge system or a national parks system...

By Brad Trom, Blooming Prairie I am glad to know that State Senator Dan Sparks wants to see the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency Citizens’ Board restored, but his voting record doesn’t indicate that he did anything to try and keep it from being abolished. 1. In Conference...

As I was sitting in the chair last night with three black lab heads in my lap each trying to get the most attention from my two petting hands I thought about all of training aids or training methods that people used, or have tried to use, to train dogs for the past 100 years. Every...

Going where no man has gone before is not anything that happens in my life very often. Most every place I have ever been has had lots of others there before me. When I go here and there I make sure that I do what’s necessary to ensure that I won’t have any bad experiences once...