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Coming down Minot’s north hill recently, I was again struck by the immensity of the Souris River Valley compared to the relatively small flowage of the…
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The comings and goings at our bird feeders has been rather routine this winter. We are getting the usual chickadees, white-breasted nuthatches, pine…
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The Great Backyard Bird Count is coming up February 12-15. As some of you may know it is an effort between the Cornell Lab of Ornithology National Audubon…
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Clear summer nights are great for looking up at the heavens. But there is something about clear winter nights that makes the night sky even more awe…
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It never ceases to amaze me how quiet the prairie, woods, and marshes can be during the dead of winter here in North Dakota. Oh, there are the occasional…
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If I had one wish, it would probably be time travel. And one of the first places I would go would be the Great Plains of North America before European…
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Some of you longtime North Dakota residents may recall the old North Dakota tourism campaign, North Dakota-Mountain Removal Project Completed. That…
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Happy New Year! I suspect that most of us were ready to see 2020 in the rearview mirror. Here is hoping 2021 is your best year ever. Things are getting…
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The winter finch forecast predicted that the pine siskins were likely to stay up north to take advantage of a good conifer seed crop across much of…
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As I drove down the highway past a pond shortly after ice-up a few weeks ago, I noticed a few small piles of what looked like mud and vegetation on the…