March 1999

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Table of Contents - Spring 1999
 
  • Around the State 

  • Recent reports on fish, wildlife, and native plant management activities from throughout Minnesota
  • From the Editor
  • Wildlife supporters could strike it rich 
  • Sunny skies over Rainy Lake

  • Why the walleye forecast has never been brighter for this scenic, sprawling Canadian border water (plus 2 sidebars) 
  • Repercussions from Rainy's regs? 
  • Hats off to the Rainy Lake club 
  • A good deal for all

  • An attorney, an oil company, the EPA, the MPCA, and the DNR figure out a way to save a rare Metro Region sand prairie and make almost everyone happy along the way
  • Safer hunting

  • New figures show that hunting gets safer each year and has fewer injured participants than billiards, bowling, or even golf
  • Pretending to close the deer season

  • Training exercise requires extreme measures to contain mock disease outbreak among cattle
  • A natural blessing for St. Cloud

  • Nuns team with hunters, business owners, and public officials to secure Sand Prairie wildlife and education area 
  • Gaining land for good

  • Why one wildlife manager has spent 37 years buying and improving public wildlife areas 
  • Deer herd definitely on the rebound

  • Last year's higher harvest plus the recent mild winter bode well for the 1999 deer season
  • Job well done
  • Absolution
  • Ask the DNR 
  • Roger's View
  • Fish & Wildlife Today, published by the Division of Fish and Wildlife, is the DNR's quarterly newspaper for Minnesotans interested in fish, wildlife, and native plant conservation. 
    Coming next issue:

    Steelhead: a welcome resurgence on the North Shore

    Fisheries research: Is it worth doing?

    How to deal with Minnesota's growing bear population

    Finding rare plants in Minneapolis

    How wildlife managers are saving you money