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HAWK RIDGE

From hawk-shooting hotspot to hilltop birdwatching reserve, the 50th anniversary celebrates conservation victory.
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Project would add amphitheater, seating, picnic shelter and toilets to the birdwatching hotspot.
The annual event draws thousands to watch raptors soar over Duluth.
DULUTH -- The nearly half-century tally of birds that fly over Hawk Ridge every autumn is really a snapshot of annual migration, impacted by weather and natural cycles, and not necessarily a population survey.

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DULUTH -- So this was considered a slow day last week at Hawk Ridge, one of the premier fall bird migration watching and counting spots in the nation: 4,000 warblers, 1,800 blue jays and nine peregrine falcons flew over with a smattering of a doz...
BRAINERD - In this week's Northland Outdoors TV episode, we examine the plight of the prairie chicken, which is making a comeback on the flatlands of western Minnesota at The Nature Conservancy's Bluestem Prairie Scientific and Natural Area locat...

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