Set to fly

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GPS project to fit 25 mallard hens in North Dakota, Saskatchewan with tracking devices
A broad-based group of waterfowl researchers, including state and federal biologists from the Central and Mississippi flyways, are teaming up on a project to put GPS transmitters on 25 mallard hens this fall in North Dakota and Saskatchewan.

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Richard Johnson of Hillsboro, N.D., photographed these baby foxes earlier this month northeast of Hillsboro.

Minnesota mallard with GPS still alive

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A mallard drake fitted with a GPS transmitter in April 2006 at Thief Lake Wildlife Management Area in northwestern Minnesota was still alive at last check, its tracking data showed.

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Groups fight import of polar bear hides

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Environmental and animal rights groups are lining up to oppose a lawsuit that seeks to let American sport hunters again import hides of polar bears shot legally in Canada.

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Turtle traffic

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Summer means turtles on the move in North Dakota
As spring turns to summer, turtles are out and on the move. “They are laying eggs or looking for good places as we speak,” said Patrick Isakson, a non-game biologist for the North Dakota Game and Fish Department.

Too Many Muskies?

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There are mixed feelings over muskie stocking on Minnesota lakes
Kirk Schnitker said he believes Minnesota is stocking too many lakes with muskies, to the detriment of other species, including walleyes, northerns and crappies.

Outdoors Notebook: Dry weather hurting N.D. duck population

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BISMARCK, N.D. – The number of breeding ducks in North Dakota is unchanged from last year, but dried-out wetlands and a lack of moisture to fill them are hurting the duck population, state wildlife officials say.

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Paul Hagen of Moorhead photographed this loon during the opening weekend of the Minnesota fishing opener on Marshall Lake near Lake Park, Minn. “He was the only one catching fish that day,” Hagen wrote.