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Scott Rall Daily Globe outdoors writer I have heard the story about the bad penny that just keeps on showing up. I don’t know the story behind this story, but there is another story that also just keeps coming up. That story is the one about aquatic invasive species. The Lessard-Sams...

SCOTT RALL Daily Globe outdoors writer What follows is the five poison pills that the slimmest margin of people that call themselves hunters (but which are not) inflict on what is the much larger body of ethical, honest sportsmen also called hunters. The saying that one bad apple...

Scott Rall Daily Globe outdoors writer The dove season opened on Sept. 1, and this is the first chance for many hunters and dog owners to get their dogs in the field. If you have done this right it won’t be the first time in nine months that your dog has had any exercise. It...

By Scott Rall Outdoors columnist I have been an outdoor educator for as long as I can remember. I am not the most formally educated outdoor educator, but every time I get the opportunity to share a little information about an outdoor topic with someone interested in hearing it,...

By Scott Rall Daily Globe outdoors writer It is really hard to get the hunting bug when it is 90-plus degrees outside, but “a hunting we will go” starting Sunday Sept. 1. There are several seasons to open on Sunday. Mourning doves and the early Canada goose season both open...

Scott Rall Daily Globe outdoors writer Training dogs is a pastime that I have thoroughly enjoyed for about the last 15 years. The reasons I cite for this enjoyment are too numerous to list, but the challenge of training a dog to do what few others can do is probably the most...

By Scott Rall Daily Globe outdoors writer The time of year has come around again to write about a subject that gets me more mail and comments both positive and negative than any other column that I write in a year’s time. The subject matter is dove hunting. The dove season...

Scott Rall Daily Globe Outdoors writer There was a movie many years ago that starred Steve Martin. I can’t remember the name, but there was about a 5-minute section where he asked himself over and over the question, “What is that?” He was sure he figured it out, and after...

By Scott Rall Outdoors columnist It is a statement of fact that if you don’t like the weather in Minnesota, just wait a minute or two and it will change. For the first part of the summer all it did was rain and now it won’t rain at all. When the winter of 2012-13 wouldn’t...

There is no bigger wildlife issue brewing today in Minnesota than wolves. The timber wolf was on the endangered species list for a very long time. They were hunted and trapped to almost complete extinction many years ago. Minnesota had a population goal of 1,600 wolves in the state....

It's the morning of the Fourth of July and I am looking out the office window at Rall Financial Services. I loved seeing all the flags being flown on my way to my office to write this column. Why is it that only on the Fourth of July that so many people fly the symbol of our American...

Life is a measure of extremes. Last June it stopped raining and did not start again until this spring, and now all it does is rain. Now it has even rained too much in some places. I wonder why with all the rain the Worthington city wells are still not up to snuff? Wildlife has...

I don't know if they still use it, but the Worthington Area Chamber of Commerce used to have a motto that went like this: "Doing the things most people think just happen." When it comes to managing wildlife habitat, many people think that it just happens. There is nothing further...

Country music superstar Jason Aldeen recently released a song called "1994." It is on its way to the top of the country charts. I wondered when I heard the song where the 1994 came from. The year that I am talking about today is 1906 and it came from a book that was dropped off...