In an effort to get more families outdoors and enjoying nature, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is offering five outdoor skills programs for beginners.
Potential School Board members in the St. Cloud Area School District, and anyone who wants to learn more about the process, are invited to a prospective school board candidates information session.
The turkey hunting season still has 2 weeks remaining but the record for the most wild turkeys shot in the state of Minnesota has already been broken. Glen Schmitt from Outdoor News joined me on WJON. The DNR are reporting 14,472 turkeys harvested throughout all the turkey seasons this spring.
Other areas that fared well on the survey were #20 Houston/The Woodlands/Sugar Land, TX; #21 Denver/Aurora/Lakewood, CO and #22 Atlanta/Sandy Springs/Roswell, GA.
If you have kids or grandkids that love root beer floats, yard games, popcorn, pizza and just a lot of fun, this event is definitely for them... and you!
Now is the time to be on the lookout for these invasive species of plants as they are flowering, if they are at least 2 years old, making them easy to spot.