Farm, Garden & Outdoors calendar published Jan. 30, 2021
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Outdoors
Prairie Sportsman: 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 31, and repeats at 12:30 p.m. Monday and 7:30 p.m. following Saturday on Pioneer PBS. Join host Bret Amundson for “Diving Deep and Eating Insects.” Explore mine pit lakes, growing and eating insects and backyard pocket prairie kits.
Prairie Sportsman: 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 7, and repeats at 12:30 p.m. following Monday and 7:30 p.m. following Saturday on Pioneer PBS. Join host Bret Amundson for “Bluegills and Salty Waters.” Take a fishing trip in Otter Tail County to learn about the Quality Bluegill Initiative, road salt impacts on our waters and strange Minnesota native plants.
Modified Jan 2nd, 2021 at 9:47 AM
Every year, Mother Nature dictates when conditions are right to start grooming the hundreds of miles of snowmobile trails across and around Lake of the Woods. Mother Nature has done her part and so have the area snowmobile clubs. Between checking ice conditions, cutting through fallen trees, fixing bridges, adding or replacing signage along the trail, marking the trail and constant grooming, the good folks who are members of the club have been busy. The great news is snowmobile trails on land and across the ice on Lake of the Woods are open!
There are two active snowmobile clubs around the lake. The Lake of the Woods Drifters and the NW Angle Edge Riders. Both do a great job of maintaining and grooming trails and keep conditions up to date on their Facebook pages.
Bumpy road leads him to all the right places
Bret Amundson knows the ups and downs of a career in the outdoor media industry, but it s where it leads him that matters most to the host of Pioneer Public Television s successful Prairie Sportsman show. 6:06 am, Dec. 19, 2020 ×
Bret Amundson will be hosting his fifth season as host of the revamped Prairie Sportsman program produced by Pioneer Public Television. Its broadcast throughout Minnesota and into large swaths of the Dakotas, Iowa and Wisconsin.
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Bret Amundson makes his career while fishing and hunting waters and lands both remote and famous.
So with this in mind, you’d think the moment of inspiration that led to it all would have come while he was contemplating things in the quiet wilds of his favorite state.