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ARTICLE ARCHIVE 1994-99Articles from back issues of Fish & Wildlife Today in PDF format
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1999 Articles
Reality Check: releasing walleyes
Reality Check: lottery proceeds
Ask the DNR: Dogfish
Ask the DNR: Which wetland?
Ask the DNR: Northern Harrier
From the editor: New deer hunters
From the editor: seeing prairies
From the editor: simple fishing
Editorial: Absolution
Editorial: Why are hunters so smart?
Job well done
Unsung hero: Dave Vesall
Blue sucker on the rebound
CARA money could pour in
Cheeseburger with fins
Clear progress at Niemackl
Deer herd on the rebound
Fisheries research
Free trout fishing access guide
Gathering native seeds
Grey Cloud Dunes SNA
Hunting is safe
It's a trout bonanza!
Local club helps at Rainy Lake
Locating Twin Cities rare features
Mock deer season closure
New licensing system
Outdoors types spend billions
Portrait of a wildlife manager
Repercussions of Rainy Lake regs?
Sand Prairie WMA: A St. Cloud blessing
Saving Twin Cities fens
Steelhead on the rebound
Stony Brook habitat work
Sunny skies over Rainy Lake
Unwelcome mats for weeds
Wild rice restoration efforts
WMA manager John Scharf honored
1997 Articles
Reality check: hunting rights
Reality check: deformed frogs
Ask the DNR: wormy fish
Ask the DNR: herring
From the editor: fishing adventure
From the editor: "I'm no biologist, but..."
Opinion: Factory hog farms
Opinion: women hunters confound stereotypes
Banding ducks
CRP signups slashed
Deer survive winter's worst
Ecological Classification System
Exotic species
Fish consumption advice
Forest birds act as barometers
Homeowners foul urban waters
How lakes are mapped
How the DNR manages Minnesota's deer
MCBS: Clay County
Minnesota's forgotten fish
Minnesota, the house of grouse
Muskie management
Ringnecks' regular roosting routine
Saving bluebirds with tree tube toppers
Sharptails
Stocking walleyes
Saving fens
The future of bass in Minnesota
Trout fishing's golden era
Using bacon to find bears
What's bugging loosestrife?
Where did the brookies go?
Wildlife research
Wood Rill SNA
Yellow Medicine County's recovery
Youth waterfowl hunt
1995 Articles
Reality check: tooth loss in northerns
Reality check: catfish "stingers"
Ask the DNR: foam globs
From the editor: carp
From the editor: sharptails
From the editor: steel shot
Opinion: Who's to blame for the Minnesota River?
Opinion: Private rights, public wrongs
Dam relicensing opens door to habitat improvements
Eco Services important laboratories
Ecosystem management on Big Sandy
Ecosystem projects along Lake Superior
Experimental regulations could boost fish size
Finding big catfish
Fishing the Mississippi River in St. Paul
Fishing through frozen water
How the DNR finds furbearers
Hunting rabbits
Lake Pepin sauger
Lawns bad for lakes
Making bigger bluegills
Myths about deer control dispelled
New study shows bow wounding rate low
Shallow lakes in deep trouble
Shorelines are essential but in danger
Stocking brookies in SE Minnesota
The need for biodiversity
Those darn raccoons
Threats to lake trout
What do wildlife managers do?
Why the DNR needs plans for fish management
Why watersheds need attention
1998 Articles
Reality check: wolves and deer
Ask the DNR: Trout stream access; wounded wildlife; party hunting; leave hooks in?
From the editor: Gadgetry
From the editor: releasing walleyes?
From the editor: where are those falcons?
Editorial: Babbit on exotics
Opinion: Wilderness within
Opinion: Spotting the wise use phonies
Opinion: Ethics of hunting, life
Bat hunter
Conservation license plate
Counties cash in on WMA payments
CREP worth $163 million
Deer feeding
DNR wildlife goes broke
Drawdowns help lake habitat
Feds give $ for prairie preservation
Floods can restore ecosystems
Foiling fish afflictions
Free booklet offers goose relief
Free rare plant booklets
Free woodland bird management booklet
Giant geese
Goose guide
Greening Minnesota
How many fish can a lake hold?
Killer kitties
Lake trout
Lura Lake
MCBS
MCBS: Traverse and Wilkins
MinnAqua
Minnesota's walleye factories
New wildlife watching guide
New fish records
Rotenone improves fish habitat
SNAs
Stocking myths
Walleye catch rates down
Walleye year classes
Wildlife research spot population trends
Wildlife success stories
Wild rice
Wild turkey
Wolf conservation
1996 Articles
Reality check: WMA tax ripoff
Reality check: Overstaffed central office
Ask the DNR: released fish survival in winter
From the editor: Loss of CRP
Opinion: Anti-fishing zealots
Opinion: Pulled from their roots
Opinion: Ecosystems need natural
Lowdown on the 1996 blowdown
Conservation license plates
Counting moose
CRP update
Environmental education suffers
Exotic species still on the prowl
Experimental regulations not for everyone
How the DNR hopes to increase fish size
Lake classification system
Lakescaping
New trespass laws
No whirling disease (so far)
Off-road vehicle controversy
Purple loosestrife
Red River
Resolving trespass issues
Restoring ducks to Heron Lake
Restoring natural flows to the Mississippi
River education program
Sandhill cranes at Carlos Avery WMA
Sleepy Eye Lake wakes up
Steelhead update
Stocking facts and myths
Sturgeon restoration
The Minnesota River stinks
Trappers under fire
Waves of destruction on the Mississippi
What to do about metro geese?
Wildlife partnerships in St. Cloud
Wolves
1994 Articles
Reality check: raising pheasants
Reality check: anti-stocking
Reality check: releasing roughfish
Ask the DNR: hunting refuges
Ask the DNR: lost license
Ask the DNR: fish house license
From the editor: Ireland fishing no bargain
From the editor: cranes
From the editor: mountain lions
From the editor: thick regulations
Opinion: the big picture
Opinion: join clubs for better fishing
Opinion: wolves
Opinion: trapping
Baffling beavers
Birding boom
Environmental review
Fall fishing facts
Farm policy harms wildlife
Finding a place to hunt
Finding big bucks
How the DNR manages fisheries
Hunting with kids
Lake Christina comes back
New booklet could save lake plants
Saving lakeshores with AMAs
The need for lake surveys
Top walleye lakes
Walleye management
Where the big crappies hang
