Spotlight on Lake Lura Game Refuge in Stearns Co. “We love the wildlife!” exclaimed Patty Dease, who, with her partner, owns a farm situated in southern Stearns County. The farm is located on a small game refuge of approximately 780 acres including Lake Lura, an environmental lake which is also a waterfowl sanctuary. As we chatted, a few deer came out of the woods and began to graze on the grass in front of the house. “Sometimes if we get up in the night, we can see deer lyin

Photographer captures day-old ducklings taking their first flights These ducklings wait their turn before jumping (and bouncing) to the ground below. Photo by Steve Maanum If you have a desire to photograph wildlife, even if it’s just a hobby, you must understand right up front that a wildlife photographer is not . . . well, just not a normal person. What would possess an otherwise sane individual to sit in trees, ground blinds, or water blinds hour after hour just to watch a

Living at the lake during our retirement years is just another day in paradise. We share paradise with critters of all shapes and sizes. We invaded their territory and now we have to get used to sharing the lakes and forests with them. But I wish they would be considerate of humans even though all God’s critters have a place in the choir. It all began when we moved up to Cass County over seven years ago. There is an abundance of squirrels – gray, black, red and flying squirre

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We’ve lived in this patch of woods for the last 30 years. Because the forest comes right up to our doorstep, we are often visited and entertained by our wild neighbors. Our most unusual visitor was a fisher, who we believe was after an opossum that we had glimpsed. The fisher, who usually lives to the north of us, spent a day just outside the window shredding a large decaying elm log that we believe the opossum was hiding in. In between frenzies of log destruction, this big,

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