Outdoors

Band members continue plans to assert tribal rights with protest
Organizers with the White Earth and Leech Lake Bands of Ojibwe, including Boone Wadena, above, plan to go fishing before the state walleye opener as a way to assert hunting and fishing rights they say tribal chiefs never relinquished in an 1855 treaty.
Youths get first crack at turkey hunting
It isn't that Amber Reinking doesn't have any experience with turkeys. She raised three of them last summer at her Rice Lake Township home.
Fetching fun: Teaching dogs to sniff out antlers
In his 30 years of dog training, Tom Dokken has taught retrievers, pointers and setters to find pheasants, ducks and grouse. Now he has another mission: teaching dogs to find shed antlers from deer.
Gun control and gun rights advocates are ready for a clash over a bill that would require a background check on buyers of firearms at Minnesota gun shows.