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BY SCOTT RALL The Globe outdoors columnist With pheasant hunting season just about one month away, there is no outdoor-related writing this time of year that shouldn’t include some ideas and refreshers about hunting dog condition. It is so sad that the average hunting dog sits...

BY SCOTT RALL The Globe outdoors columnist You can just feel the change in the air. Hunting seasons are just around the corner. Whether you look at the leaves turning or just feel that extra crispness in the air, fall is just around the corner.

BY SCOTT RALL The Globe outdoors columnist Google is a wonderful thing. If you have a question with no answer you can just Google that stuff.

BY SCOTT RALL The Globe outdoors columnist I was at a big outdoor event last weekend and saw about 100 different dogs of all shapes and sizes. Most of the dogs seemed like pets out for a day in a big crowd. Almost all of them were on some elaborate leash system designed to allow...

BY SCOTT RALL The Globe outdoors columnist One of the very first columns I wrote back in 2003 was about pheasants and their biology related to reproduction. I wrote about how I believed that some hens had pulled off a second hatch because there were lots of reports of small chicks...

SCOTT RALL Daily Globe outdoors columnist I have taken the opportunity to travel the upper Midwest a time or two per year for the past two decades with the goal of enjoying the outdoors on an ATV. Most of those early trips were on a four-wheeler because they went faster and had more...

BY SCOTT RALL The Globe outdoors columnist The very common story that I have heard this summer has to do with rummage sales.

BY SCOTT RALL The Globe outdoors columnist How much effort and money should wildlife agencies spend on protecting a minnow? How much should be spent to try to save our state’s moose population? When it comes to the moose, the most common answer is spend all that it takes to save...

I have always thought of summer as June, July and August. Once you get past these three months, we are well on your way to fall — even if the specific date on the calendar is a more than a few weeks off.

BY SCOTT RALL The Globe outdoors columnist I have been writing about the perils of being a calcareous fen over the past few weeks.

Scott Rall The elevated attention to the state’s water quality continues to grow. The legislature did its very best to roll back or kill the Governors buffer law that passed in 2015, and did so, thankfully, with limited success. There was a one year delay on implementation on buffers...

BY SCOTT RALL Daily Globe outdoors columnist It was a busy weekend in the wildlife habitat world for this guy. I was really busy finishing up my food plots.

SCOTT RALL Daily Globe outdoors columnist The good old days of hunting and fishing, for most folks, were in years gone by. I think of the 40s and 50s as the heydays of outdoor recreation. My parents would tell me of times when the storms were so bad and the pheasants so thick you...