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Scott Rall Daily Globe outdoors columnist It was an interesting weekend with lots of topics discussed at the 2015 DNR Roundtable. The Round Table celebrated its 25th year at a Marriott Hotel in Brooklyn Park last Friday. It is an invitation-only event and I have been on the invite...

Scott Rall Daily Globe outdoors columnist I was reading an article written by a guy I admire by the name of Dennis Anderson of the Star Tribune a few weeks back. He asked DNR commissioner Tom Landwehr a few questions and then printed his responses. The article was kind of what...

Scott Rall Daily Globe outdoors columnist It is the second week of January, and as I sit in my office I wonder if there is an ability for a human to hibernate even if you are not really hibernating. Hibernating is one of the options available to wildlife species. There are really...

It is the new year of 2015. Some of you might have gone out two evenings ago to welcome in the New Year. A few will have overdone it and might still be paying the price today. If you are a Facebook person you can look on Facebook and it will show you a personal year in review. This...

Scott Rall Daily Globe outdoors columnist It is Christmas week and like everyone else I am getting ready for the day of family, gifts, food and anticipating the participation in the true reasons to celebrate Christmas. This is a season full of traditions. We have a big chunk...

Scott Rall Daily Globe outdoors columnist It would only make sense that after I attended the 2014 Governors Pheasant Summit I would try to give you an overview of what went on. The problem with this seemingly obvious statement is that what went on depends on who you talked to...

Scott Rall Daily Globe outdoors columnist All you need to do to train a dog is to be smarter than the dog. Seems pretty reasonable to me, but it’s not always as easy as it might seem. I have been training dogs since 1996. This is almost 20 years. When it comes to training...

Scott Rall Daily Globe outdoors columnist Minnesota’s governor is following the lead of the South Dakota’s governor and having a pheasant summit of his own. Last year South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard announced he would be holding a pheasant summit in the state to see what...

Scott Rall Daily Globe outdoors writer The fastest growing segment of the outdoor community is women. There is a movement afield on many fronts to get more women active in hunting and fishing. Another outdoor pastime that is exploding for women is recreation shooting. There...

Scott Rall Daily Globe outdoors writer One of the very best parts of deer hunting is telling and listening to the stories after the hunt is over. It is fun to hear the voices of the storytellers and see the excitement in their eyes as they share their experiences. Deer hunting...

Scott Rall Daily Globe outdoors writer It is pretty fitting to write about bald eagles in early November, having just finishing up the elections and taking pause to appreciate the best form of self-governance on the planet. The bald eagle is the national bird of the United States...

Scott Rall Daily Globe outdoors writer It was an interesting early week for this pheasant hunter. A few days back I got a call from Bob St. Pierre. He is the director of marketing for Pheasants Forever based in St. Paul. We have been friends for a long time and it was nice to...

Scott Rall Daily Globe outdoors columnist I was sitting in my office earlier last week catching my breath after the big weekend of the 2014 Minnesota Governor’s Pheasant Hunting Opener. I thought that there had been so much written and photographed over the past week that...

Scott Rall Daily Globe outdoors writer I tell dog training clients all the time that a dog is not a radio. They do not turn off and on at the flip of a switch. No matter how well the dog is trained or who trained it, there is always going to be a chance that the dog will act...