John Myers

Duluth

Reporter hanging around the north woods covering outdoor recreation, science,the environment and natural resources. Retweets don't mean I agree with any opinion

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Minnesota enters second archery deer season with crossbows for anyone

Sep 6, 2024 | twincities.com | John Myers

Minnesota is heading into its second archery deer hunting season Saturday, Sept. 14, under a temporary law that allows anyone to use crossbows, but it’s still unclear how the first season went in 2023. The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has some data that show crossbow hunters tended to be younger and older than the average archery hunter, likely due to their ease of use and exactly what supporters of crossbows wanted to happen.
Campaign kicks off to keep Minnesota lottery tied to environment

Sep 6, 2024 | duluthnewstribune.com | John Myers

DULUTH — For more than 30 years, a chunk of the state’s profits on lottery ticket sales have been constitutionally dedicated to conservation and the outdoors, funneling more than $1 billion into some 1,700 projects across Minnesota. The effort has paid for studies on why Minnesota’s moose are declining, what wolves in and around Voyageurs National Park are eating, projects tackling climate change, building and expanding trails and campgrounds and much more.
Minnesota enters second archery deer season with crossbows for anyone

Sep 6, 2024 | ourcommunitynow.com | John Myers

Share Crossbows at a glance Minnesota, Wisconsin grouse, archery deer start Sept. 14 Minnesota and Wisconsin archery deer seasons begin Saturday, Sept. 14. Minnesota’s runs through Dec. 31, while Wisconsin’s goes to Jan. 5. Both state’s small game and ruffed grouse hunting seasons begin Sept. 14. Minnesota's runs through Dec. 31, while Wisconsin’s ends Jan. 5 across most of the state.
Minnesota enters second archery deer season with crossbows for anyone

Sep 5, 2024 | duluthnewstribune.com | John Myers

DULUTH — Minnesota is heading into its second archery deer hunting season Saturday, Sept. 14, under a temporary law that allows anyone to use crossbows, but it’s still unclear how the first season went in 2023. The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has some data that show crossbow hunters tended to be younger and older than the average archery hunter, likely due to their ease of use and exactly what supporters of crossbows wanted to happen.
Prehistoric Minnesota fish defies aging

Sep 5, 2024 | duluthnewstribune.com | John Myers

McGREGOR, Minn. — The last time bigmouth buffalo fish had a really good reproduction survival year in the Rice River near here, the Japanese and the Nazis were winning World War II, Franklin Roosevelt was president and Bing Crosby’s “White Christmas” was the new No. 1 song in the U.S.It was 1942, and many of those bigmouth buffalo that hatched that year are still going strong in the Rice River system in Aitkin County, where they are now 82 years old.
John Myers column: It's time for me to fish more, fret less

Aug 30, 2024 | duluthnewstribune.com | John Myers

Our duck hunting season up north starts Sept. 10 and goes to freeze-up. I have tried for 20 or more days of hunting during past seasons and made it a few times. This fall, I’m going for more. How much more will depend, for the first time, on how much the ducks and the weather cooperate and not how much vacation time I have available. After 38 years as a reporter at the Duluth News Tribune, 41 years reporting counting smaller newspapers, I’m about to retire.
Esko, Grand Rapids, Northwestern bass anglers head to state

Aug 29, 2024 | duluthnewstribune.com | John Myers

ON CHUB LAKE — It was 93 degrees in the shade with hardly a breath of wind, but Jack Hakala and John Pagelkopf kept at it, kept fishing, kept casting. And kept catching. Bass, that is. On a practice day with less than two weeks before “state,’’ Pagelkopf and Hakala were fine-tuning their skills for their fourth consecutive trip to the state high school championship bass tournament.
Second, smaller spill of city water hit Tischer Creek

Aug 29, 2024 | duluthnewstribune.com | John Myers

DULUTH — The city has reported a second spill of clean drinking water into Tischer Creek this month after an earlier spill likely caused more than 1,000 fish to die. City officials filed a report with the state Aug. 14 saying the second accidental spill happened for several hours Aug. 13 as water mysteriously flowed out of the large, underground reservoir the city operates for storage near the intersection of Minneapolis Avenue and East Mankato Street.
Former Grand Rapids high school angler wins Bassmaster tourney on Leech Lake

Aug 26, 2024 | duluthnewstribune.com | John Myers

WALKER — Easton Fothergill became a hometown champ of sorts Sunday by winning the St. Croix Bassmaster Open at Leech Lake, his second first-place finish on this year’s pro bass fishing circuit after tearing up college and high school bass fishing leagues.
Great Lakes Outdoor Summit draws Lakota skier, filmmaker, activist

Aug 23, 2024 | duluthnewstribune.com | John Myers

DULUTH — Connor Ryan is a professional skier, activist and filmmaker who is also a member of the Hunkpapa Lakota tribe, and he's coming to the Northland this fall to tell his story. Ryan, 31, was born and raised in Colorado and started skiing at a young age but phased out of skiing during his teenage years. He jumped back into the sport as a young adult and has made a name for himself among the community of backcountry extreme skiers across the Rocky Mountains.