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    Handguns are lined at at a booth during the National Rifle Association's annual meeting in Nashville, Tenn., April 10, 2015. Caught in an angry social media storm, a number of marketers have ended promotions linked to the NRA, but it’s unclear whether boycotts have a lasting impact. (Joe Buglewicz/Copyright 2018 The New York Times)
    After Parkland shooting, NRA posts biggest fundraising haul in nearly 20 years
    The National Rifle Association's Political Victory Fund raised $2.4 million in donations in March, setting a 21st-century fundraising record...
    sports/outdoors2 hours 8 min ago
    April 22, 2018
    Ask a Conservation Officer: When is sturgeon season?
    Q: I have hooked a lot of sturgeon on the St. Louis River while fishing for walleyes and they were a blast to have on my line. Can I purposefully...
    sports/outdoorsApril 22, 2018 - 7:15pm
    Grand Marais, Cook County propose new regional park
    Cook County and the city of Grand Marais are teaming up to create a regional park just north of the city. The proposed Sawtooth Bluff Regional...
    sports/outdoorsApril 22, 2018 - 7:15pm
    042218.O.DNT.SturgeonC1 -- Dan Wilfond, a fisheries specialist with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources at French River, holds a 63.7-inch, 70-pound female lake sturgeon during DNR sampling on the St. Louis River in April last year. The fish was fitted with an acoustic transmitter, and its movements are being monitored as part of an ongoing study by several agencies. Minnesota DNR photo
    Sturgeon solutions: Biologists seek reasons for lack of fish's reproduction on St. Louis River
    The St. Louis River has a healthy population of adult lake sturgeon, but those fish are not producing the numbers of young fish that biologists...
    sports/outdoorsApril 22, 2018 - 3:31pm
    042218.O.DNT.STEGERc1 -- Ely's Will Steger loads gear into his canoe-sled on March 21 at Black Lake, Saskatchewan at the start of his 70-day, 1,000-mile trek across Canada's barren lands. Photo courtesy Steger Wilderness Center
    Steger plugging away on barren lands solo trek
    Polar explorer Will Steger has encountered deep snow and some slow going in the first month of his planned 70-day, 1,000-mile solo trek from...
    sports/outdoorsApril 22, 2018 - 1:10pm
    042218.O.DNT.FieldC1:Minnesota Department of Natural Resources fisheries officials say the smallmouth bass population on Mille Lacs Lake is in good shape. News Tribune file photo
    Field Reports: Mille Lacs smallmouth bass population healthy
    A recently completed survey on Mille Lacs Lake shows that the lake's smallmouth bass population is about 67,000 – and those are just the ones...
    sports/outdoorsApril 22, 2018 - 11:21am
    Outdoors Notes
    Courage Kenny Rehabilitation Institute offers these events. Call 218-726-4834 ext. 1 or email mark.hanna@allina.com for more information.
    sports/outdoorsApril 22, 2018 - 10:24am
    Larry Gadaire of Grand Forks stands by two of the boats -- a canoe and kayak -- he built in his shop. Brad Dokken / Forum News Serviceplay button
    Craftsman makes a wake building kayaks and canoes
    GRAND FORKS — Larry Gadaire was paddling his homemade cedar strip canoe on Lake Renwick near Cavalier, N.D., one day about 25 years ago...
    sports/outdoorsApril 22, 2018 - 7:48am
    Brad Dokken
    Angler's fish tale presents learning opportunity
    GRAND FORKS — Not that many years ago, it was relatively common practice for anglers fishing sturgeon on Lake of the Woods and Rainy River...
    sports/outdoorsApril 22, 2018 - 7:20am
    Duluth News Tribune outdoors writer Sam Cook pauses on a 20-below-zero morning on Canada's Baffin Island while covering a dogsled expedition led by Ely's Will Steger in 2007.
    Longtime readers, story subjects, cohorts reflect on Sam Cook's career
    Jim Brandenburg, Minnesota-based photographer for National Geographic, said "it goes without saying (Sam) will be greatly missed, not only...
    sports/outdoorsApril 22, 2018 - 5:00am
    Outdoors calendar
    • Now through May 4 – Wisconsin early inland catch-and-release trout season.
    sports/outdoorsApril 22, 2018 - 4:22am
    Sam Cook is an outdoors writer for the Duluth News Tribune.
    Sam Cook column: Heading down a new trail with plenty of old friends
    I visited my friend Jeff Rennicke's writing studio in Bayfield years ago. It was a simple room, bare of most distractions, but on the wall above...
    sports/outdoorsApril 22, 2018 - 1:59am
    Duluth News Tribune outdoors writer Sam Cook holds a lake trout he caught on Basswood north of Ely while doing an outdoors story for the newspaper. Cook will retire from outdoors writing at the newspaper on Friday. Kelly Murphy photo
    Sam Cook paddles into retirement: After 38 years as the News Tribune’s outdoors writer, he hangs up his notebook
    After 38 years as the Duluth News Tribune's outdoors writer, Sam Cook is retiring Friday to pursue, well, pretty much what he's always pursued....
    sports/outdoorsApril 22, 2018 - 1:22am
    April 21, 2018
    The ticks have been waiting for warmer weather, and they are hungry
    ST. PAUL — Along with the usual caveats about muzzle control and keeping the safety on, Garth Guyer, a youth firearms safety instructor in Dakota County, gave his class of 30 one more order for range day on Saturday, April 21. "Bring your permethrin!" he said. "The ticks will...
    sports/outdoorsApril 21, 2018 - 3:35pm
    April 20, 2018
    Sam Cook
    Sam Cook column: For two boys, fishing season is already here
    Here they came, down the snow-packed trail toward us on Wednesday night in Duluth. Two of them. Young boys, it appeared from a distance. Each...
    sports/outdoorsApril 20, 2018 - 5:00am
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